May/June grads - preceptorship

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I'm currently doing my preceptorship and was wondering about others doing the same. What kind of program (ADN or BSN)? How many hours are required to complete the preceptorship? What unit(s) are you doing it on? Are you doing more skills and feeling like a real nurse or just following a nurse around & 'helping' with things?

Specializes in ER (My favorite), NICU, Hospice.

I have to do 36 hours. I start tomorrow. I am going to the Neuro ICU unit.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry/PCU, SNF.

Our program requires 108 hours, completed within the month of March, depending on the precepting nurse's schedule. I've been doing nights in our ER and absolutely loving it. I don't feel like a follower so much anymore as my nurse has been pushing me to make clinical decisions, then correcting if I go the wrong way. But she's there over my shoulder every step of the way.

Cheers,

Tom

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Specializes in Neuro, Critical Care.

192 hours...in 6 weeks..we get to pick our area providing our instructors approve.

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

LPN program. I start my preceptorship April 26th in LTC. Pn's only get 64 hours preceptorship in my program and it has to be in LTC. (I think they should add physician/clinic nursing as an option for us.)

Next year we get to pick where we want to go. I think I'll pick med-surg.

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We have to complete 72 hours in about three weeks. What have some of your preceptors expected from you?? Oh, and its an ADN program.

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Specializes in Surgical/Telemetry.

144 hours in 2 months. BSN program. Starting in 1.5 weeks on a cardiac step-down/telemetry unit and really looking forward to it!

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:uhoh21: ummmm I'm feeling a little underqualified here. Ours is only 40 hours to be completed in 2 weeks!!!! We do get to pick the place though..... I will be in E.R. Mine will be the last 2 weeks of April. Our instructors actually added a half hour to every theory class this semester so we're done with theory before capstone/preceptorship and have no class during that time. Wasn't that nice!!!!

:o are anyone elses this short?

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Our preceptorship last 10 weeks. We work the same schedule as our assigned nurse. I do 3 12 hour shifts for 10 weeks. We are on the floor that we have been hired on. Its really great experience. Most days I take 5 patients.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

We have to do 40 hours. I am in an ADN program. We do it our last semester which for me will be this summer. We pick who we want to precept and where from a list available. I am going to pick early as possible because I want to do it at the hospital that I work at now as a tech and in the ER with my favorite RN.

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Specializes in CV Surgery Step-down.

Just finished an 80 hour preceptorship on a cardiac stepdown/telemetry unit on 12 hour nights! This is the first time our ADN program has required a preceptorship.

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I'm in a ADN program, and we have to do 120 hours in about 5 weeks. We got to choose our units, my choice was NICU.

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Our preceptorship program is 180 hours. It is an ADN program. We do regular 12-hour shifts, in a unit that is assigned to us. There are a wide variety of units people are precepting in: med-surg, post-surgical, ortho-neuro, NICU, PACU, ICU, ED,cardiac stepdown, OB, Peds, oncology, and the short-term stay unit.

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