RN4JC

[color=#3b5998]welcome to the michigan senate www.senate.michigan.gov go to this site and find your senator and email address. easy peasy

Amy Beth, this is great that you posted this here. What an excellent idea!

I looked up their website on the internet and emailed them. There must be a group in your area and you can click on the "contact us" link that most have. Then email them your request.They will want to know a little bit about you and what are you are interested in finding a preceptor for. Good luck and have fun. I have had great preceptors and great clinical experiences.

Mixed emoptions about this one. I live 40 miles from work. I usually plan on extra driving time when the weather forcast is bad. I have spent 3 hours on the road going to work- and made it there on time because i left early. I and many other co-workers have stayed over in empty patient rooms so we could work another shift and not have to leave. I always have had personal hygiene items in my locker for such an event. I have no sympathy for people who live closer than I do to the hospital and don't make it in, however, like I said. I have mixed emotions. I did those things when I was younger. I have been a nurse for 30 years and I have become a bit jaded toward management/hospital administrators. They know that nurses are caring and duty-minded and self-sacrificing and they use that to manipulate us. The manager was serious. Yep. There would be no sympathy or understanding if you get killed driving to work in bad weather. It would be your "bad decision" Elective cases can be cancelled. Patients can be discharged, and if the managers are not coming in and working extra to cover, then they should not expect regular staff to do so. (The only times I have not made it in because of snow is when I have been stuck myself. Which has only been about 4 times in 30 years.) Your safety and your family come first. regarding students. as someone else said, if the campus is closed then clinicals are cancelled.

Considering we are not even allowed to look at our OWN medical records, what made them think they could look at someone elses? I think if they were that "concerned" they should have visited her. Curiosity killed the cat...there is a reason those old sayings are around.........

I posted a request for a preceptor in the online newsletter for Nurse Practitioners. I did get my preceptor, who is wonderful, from this posting.

To elkpark, this will not be my only clinical. My MSN is in adult health.

Hi Chris2732, I called every hopsital in the area and spoke with the director of staff development. They could contact all the NP and CNS who worked in their hospital. I also called and emailed the state Nurse Practitioner association and they sent out a letter in their weekly newsletter. I called every nurse practitioner in the phone book. I have a friend who is a professor at University of Michigan, and she gave me names of possible preceptors. My school had given me a list of possible preceptors, but it was out of date and fairly useless. My instructor gave me the name of the nurse who is going to be my preceptor and her name is not even on the list the school gave me! Where do you live?

To Chris2732, I did find a preceptor on Thursday. I will be working at a Diabetes Clinic which treats primarily adults. I will be learning how to regulate medications for blood sugar control and hypertension. I start on Wednesday. I already teach nursing clinicals on a part time basis. I am getting my MSN primarily so I can teach full time. I love teaching the nursing students. My first nursing instructor told me to get out of the nursing program because I didn't have the right attitude. Ha Ha Ha.....I have been a nurse for 29 years. I teach because of her. She made my life miserable, along with a few other instructors and I wanted students to have a positive and rewarding experience. I have had students tell me that if they had not had me as an instructor, they would have dropped out of the program. So, I am really happy that I have been an encouragement to these students. I intend on volunteering at a free clinc as well as teaching and I will precept MSN students at the free clinic. That way the clinic gets two nurses working when I am there. I feel that this is what God has called me to do to serve others.

To Chris2732, thanks for the link. I intend to make myself available as a preceptor for grad students after I graduate. I already have it planned out. To elkpark. There is no liability for the preceptor unless the preceptor makes a mistake. I am an RN and I have my own insurance.

Why is it so difficult to find an APN who is willing to serve as a preceptor? They know what it is all about and they know a clinical experience needs to be done by all of us. This is so frustrating.

1. Eastern Michigan University 2. MSN/CNS in Adult Health with a teaching concentration 3. Working full time 4. Attending school full time 5. I am actually in my last year. I have been attending sporadically to get the first year completed. Nervous about full time work and school but this is where God wants me to be. I have a supportive husband and 2 supportive adult daughters. I am excited about finally finishing and teaching full time.

As I contemplate my massive debts and the 54 hours each week that I am working to try to get out of debt, I long for the day I can retire, but I doubt I will. I would bet that I will not leave here unless it is in a body bag. I hope I have my bills paid by then.

I would write more about what it takes to be a nurse, but I have to get ready to go TEACH A NURSING CLINICAL. Hey, maybe I could just email them all and tell them what I did at work yesterday. That would save me 80 miles of travel and 8 hours of time. What a concept!!!

I take great offense to this ludicrous post. I don't care how much I talk about my job and what I do at work with my family/friends, they could not do what I do, nor can anyone who sits in an office and has never provided patient care. I guess, in your world, nursing education could consist of on-line chat rooms.You must work with a truly abysmal group of nurses if you can say the things you said about their performance. By the way, YES IT IS THE LICENSE that makes one a nurse, as well as the education, experience, blood, sweat & tears that are behind the license. I absolutely agree that it IS only nurses that KNOW nursing.

Unless you injured a patient do not let this bother you. I have been a nurse for 26 years and I cannot even remember how many doctors I have upset, and had complain about me because I didn't have their ego on the forefront of my attention. Actually, some of my funniest stories are ABOUT irritating the doctors, and these all happened accidently. I have always said and still say that if I didn't have to deal with doctors and administrators, my job would be perfect. You are first and foremost a patient advocate. You are there for the patient.

Hi RNLauren05, You did not mention what hours you work or how many days per week. I worked nights and afternoons for 13 years while my kids were little. My husband also worked the day shift. If you are waking up when he gets home, then you are seeing him the same amount of evening time as you would if you were both getting home from work at the same time. As far as my marriage goes, working nights was much better than afternoons. We NEVER saw each other when I was on afternoon shift. Off shifts is a big part of the hospital/nursing profession. This has its positives and negatives. It gives us a lot of flexibility in our schedules, but also demands that all hours of the day are covered. I think a big part of the adjustment to working your schedule is going to be in rethinking your home schedule, such as Gompers suggested. There are lots of things that can be done to make living with a day shift person very do-able and fun. Think of this as just a phase of your life and not a permanent situation. Also, you will learn things on nights that you will not learn on days, and you will meet personalities on nights that you will not meet on days. This can be an exciting and memorable part of your career.:roll

Your institution must have guidelines for evaluating clinical performance. If not, then approach it as you would a patient care plan. What behaviors do you want the students to demonstrate (goals/objectives)? Make these specific and measurable. Document subjective and objective data on each student throughout the semester so you have anecdotal notes which you can refer to.