Preceptorship hours how is this handled by your school?

Catys_With_Me · Aug 22, 2005

For us it's 160 hrs and it's something we have to complete before we graduate. We take our final exam 4 weeks before the end of the semester, do 4 weeks of full time preceptorship, and then graduate. We're then NCLEX eligible.

crb613, BSN, RN · Aug 22, 2005

For us it's 160 hrs and it's something we have to complete before we graduate. We take our final exam 4 weeks before the end of the semester, do 4 weeks of full time preceptorship, and then graduate. We're then NCLEX eligible.

Thanks for the reply. I wished ours was to be completed before we graduate. We do 120 clinical hours while in school but the other is up to us.Our director was a little worried about this also it seemed. She mentioned the fact that the school would have us all pumped up & ready to take the NCLEX & did not want us to loose info. she urged us to get this lined up & completed asap.You have me wondering now maybe it is 160 preceptorship hours.

Imafloat, BSN, RN · Aug 22, 2005

Our last semester is our preceptorship.

wonderbee, BSN, RN · Aug 22, 2005

Thanks for the reply. I wished ours was to be completed before we graduate. We do 120 clinical hours while in school but the other is up to us.Our director was a little worried about this also it seemed. She mentioned the fact that the school would have us all pumped up & ready to take the NCLEX & did not want us to loose info. she urged us to get this lined up & completed asap.You have me wondering now maybe it is 160 preceptorship hours.

We have 10 weeks of classes/clinical, then finals. Then we have six-weeks of preceptorship which is set up by the school. Our preceptorship is 144 hrs divided into 24 hrs/wk, at least as of last semester. Our orientation is tomorrow so my info is dated. I'm happy it's set up that way because I can still work one day a week.

I hear the concern about the number of preceptor hours. I believe this is dictated by your state BON, and not a national number. If I'm wrong about that, please someone correct me.

Do you currently work in the health care setting? Maybe you might want to think about approaching nurses who's work you respect and ask about precepting.

GrnHonu99, RN · Aug 22, 2005

We were told during orientation that when we graduated we would be given a permit to work. We would need to complete 120 hours before taking the NCLEX. How is your school taking care of the new change to the 120 hours?

I attend a small private school so there is only one graduation ceremony for the whole school... we "graduate" in May of 2006 with the rest of the college but we will receive a blank diploma...we then have to return for a 6 week preceptorship at 40 hours a week...when we pass that we get our actual diploma in the mail.

crb613, BSN, RN · Aug 22, 2005

We have 10 weeks of classes/clinical, then finals. Then we have six-weeks of preceptorship which is set up by the school. Our preceptorship is 144 hrs divided into 24 hrs/wk, at least as of last semester. Our orientation is tomorrow so my info is dated. I'm happy it's set up that way because I can still work one day a week.
I hear the concern about the number of preceptor hours. I believe this is dictated by your state BON, and not a national number. If I'm wrong about that, please someone correct me.
Do you currently work in the health care setting? Maybe you might want to think about approaching nurses who's work you respect and ask about precepting.

No I don't work & I don't have any experience in health care (except for my schooling).I did have a clinical instructor in med surg that offered me a job when I graduate....I thought I would approach her about precepting. I am curious to see if any other schools leave it to the student to do after they graduate.Thanks crb613

Pocamom · Aug 23, 2005

:nurse: Our school requires 56 hours of preceptorship. They supply a list of choices(all the different facilities and their specialties) which we sign up for by a lottery system, meaning we draw a number, lowest number chooses where they want first. They also choose who our preceptor is, we do not go out and seek preceptorships on our own at all. We do our 56 hours within 2 weeks, working with our preceptor on his/her schedule. We start this after our last two clinicals and right before our graduation. Our clinicals end Nov.15th, we start our preceptorship Dec 2 and we need to be done by Dec16 because we graduate Dec 21st!!

That's how it works at my school.

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loriangel14, RN · Aug 23, 2005

Our preceptorship for my rpn class is 450 hrs.37.5 hrs/week for 12 weeks.Consider yourselves lucky. lol:nurse: