Paid for precepting?

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I would first like to say "hello" to everyone here at allnurses!!! I am excited to be a new member!

So, my first question on this site to everyone is "Do you get paid to precept new grads?" Many of the nurses at my hospital are not getting paid because we have not gone through precepting classes (which we want to do) yet we are being assigned (not asked) to orient a new grad before we have taken classes. Hence, precept pay is not on our paychecks!! I do not think this is fair!! Any advice how to handle this?

Thank you in advance!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

You could put your foot down and refuse to precept new grads until you take the class and begin getting paid for it. Sounds simple but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. It could get ugly and embarrassing but you could go into broken record "I'm not doing it. I refuse", Your manager: but.......... You: "I repeat, I refuse to precept a new grad without proper and fair compensation. Your manager...."but..........." You: "As I said I am not doing it....."

Bump it up the chain of command and ask your bosses boss, the VP of nursing, the manager of Human Resoruces what they think.

Is it a class that is offered only periodically?

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I have never been asked whether or not I wanted to precept but I have always been paid for it. Personally I would rather not do it. I don't feel like the compensation is enough. I precepted for years before classes were provided. My methods are still the same.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

My hospital pays their RNs $3 a day for precepting. Not sure if it is worth the money. However, I know how a new nurse would feel...someone has to do it. But, if you really feel in your heart that you do not wish to do it unless you are properly acknowledged and compensated for it, that is your right, and I would support your decision.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, Emergency, SAFE.

Since my facility is considered a "teaching hospital", it is in every ones job description to precept and you cant refuse or you can be written up for insubordination...lol...no freedom there..

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My hospital pays their RNs $3 a day for precepting. Not sure if it is worth the money.

Hah!

Not worth the money. Hell, that ain't two Snickers bars.

I'm being precepted right now. I'll tell ya, if they're as irritated with holding my hand as I am with having it held they're earning every one of those 300 pennies.

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, Med-Surg, L & D.

I precept and get paid. There were classes offered before (when I was on vacation). I never took the class, but I'm still precepting and getting paid. For a long time, I was the only one precepting then I get tired and asked my manager to assign somebody else because I'm getting close to blow my fuse. It finally occurred to her that she needs to have a back up preceptor. Now, classes are offered for those who ask for it. Classes or not, we still get paid.

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

We get $1.75 per hour to precept, both new grads and new employees. If enough people refuse to precept unless paid, management will figure it out :)

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, Med-Surg, L & D.
My hospital pays their RNs $3 a day for precepting. Not sure if it is worth the money. However, I know how a new nurse would feel...someone has to do it. But, if you really feel in your heart that you do not wish to do it unless you are properly acknowledged and compensated for it, that is your right, and I would support your decision.

It is not worth a penny. Precepting is not for everybody. I've been doing it longer than anybody else in our unit. I like doing it, but it wears me out too. Honestly, this past few months, I asked my manager to give me a break until next year. Some of my co-workers think that it's easy until one day I called in sick :chuckle and one of them was assigned to precept the new nurse then they start rolling their eyes :rolleyes: . Every time we get new nurses, some of them literally hides in one of the rooms so they won't be assigned to orient the new nurse. :lol2:

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.

Yes I get paid to do the precepting at work and I am more than happy to do it.

I love a challenge and my biggest goal is getting our staff to do their computer notes in the patients home and not back at the office!:nono: Some habits are hard to break hahaha.

I would do it even if I was not getting paid for it.

I enjoy working and assisting where I can.

Mind you I am a mischevious Tassie Devil let me say!! ;)

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We don't get paid per se, but we do earn 8 hours of comp time for every 200 hours that we precept....I'm too tired to figure out how much that is, but it's definitely not very much. I love to precept, and although I do appreciate breaks when they're given to me, but I feel that there are some who are good at precepting and some that are not so good.....a new nurse deserves to be oriented by someone who likes what they're doing. It helps get them off to a better more positive start.

Jamie

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho.

I have precepted nearly half of the nurses i work with and i wasnt paid an extra dime for it. However, if they are putting people through some kind of precepting classes and are giving some extra pay for it,, and not me too i would refuse.

Precepting isnt something you need classes for anyway. If you are a good concientous nurse and know your policies and procedures there isnt a whole lot they would need to teach in a class for precepting.

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