Shortage of Nurse Practitioner Preceptors

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  1. Are nurses still eating their young

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      Yes Nothing has changed
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      No, they is no such thing

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Is there a national shortage of Nurse Practitioners who are willing to precept? I am finding it very difficult to find a preceptor, MD's are very quick to offer what they have, unfortunately as a NP student I have to have a FNP/NP for at least 50% of my 704 hrs. As Nurses/NPs we are asking and fighting for autonomy but not willing to help train more NPs to fight this cause. It is so easy for PA's to have their rotations lined up for them but can not do that for nursing? I am seeing more and more schools (Not just online schools) shifting that responsibility onto students. I love my school, great state school; but this issue of finding preceptors on our own bothers me, and they tell you today, when school starts in 10 days. However, if we are unable to find one, then "the school will step in". I just don't get it! I taught undergrad was difficult with unreasonable demands, but graduate school too? Are nurses in a way still eating their young? or now they are just putting hot sauce on it!

Amen to this thread. I ended up in some fortunate situations as a student, but there was some real stressful moments trying to get a site lined up. Our "Consensus Model" should include a little consensus on standardizing our educational system. I would probably have to re-think my position on the entry-to-practice issue if that level of education offered a single national curriculum and standards.

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Does anyone know any preceptors in Dayton, Oh

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I have to agree, we do need more NP preceptors. It also goes to show you that some NP students make it worse for the rest of the NP students. Meaning, I had a MD friend of mine precept me, but he was telling me that in his office, a student before me from a different school, stole from the office. He worked with other physicians, so it was not his office. anyway, they were hesitant to allow for any further precepting. Its disgusting. Why would a future NP steal????? Good luck and keep your faith!

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Where I am, doctors are paid for preceptorship,

We are unpaid volunteers.

Students tend to slow me down when the workload we are juggling

is becoming increasingly heavy.

I no longer accept students that aren't in their last 2 clinical placemts.

who don't have a solid foundation of health assessment skills and pharmacology

and pathophys under their belt. Inpatient acute care is exactly that....time is

of the essence!

Having said that, I do feel a professional responsiblility to mentor and precept NP students.

I had to find my own preceptors in my NP program: NPs and MDs so I have never forgotten

how that felt like and how grateful I was to my preceptors.

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Where I am, doctors are paid for preceptorship,

We are unpaid volunteers.

Students tend to slow me down when the workload we are juggling

is becoming increasingly heavy.

I no longer accept students that aren't in their last 2 clinical placemts.

who don't have a solid foundation of health assessment skills and pharmacology

and pathophys under their belt. Inpatient acute care is exactly that....time is

of the essence!

Having said that, I do feel a professional responsiblility to mentor and precept NP students.

I had to find my own preceptors in my NP program: NPs and MDs so I have never forgotten

how that felt like and how grateful I was to my preceptors.

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Please help. i live in the charlotte area, NC and desperately in need of a preceptor. I am in my final semester of school and I am badly in need of an FNP or CNM. please help me. I just need one day a week. (8hrs). Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Hello,

I am located in NC and I am looking for a preceptor for my FNP program, from Graceland University. I need a pediatric rotation of 241 hours, an internal medicine rotation of 241 hours and I have my person for Family Practice right now, or I can swap them out for Internal medicine. It looks like you are willing to help. Are you a NP, FNP or PNP? I am located ouside of Durham, where are you located?

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Specializes in ER.

Now that is a shame. Who in their right mind will steal from a doctors office, an NP student for that matter. I do not know where this happened, but here in NC if you steal as a RN you will lose your license to practice. This just annoys the heck out of me and just plain disgusting. Professionalism for some people is stealing, how degrading!!! Yuck! I am so disgusted by this I am sorry!

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Specializes in ER and family advanced nursing practice.
Why would a future NP steal?????

I learned that people will steal underwear out of the washing machine, so you never know.

The lack of preceptors is frustrating. I had to find my own and it was tough and nerve wracking. However, I don't think you can blame the schools. Someone mentioned not seeing med school grads going door to door, but that is because there is an organized matching system that places new physicians in residencies. Now in fairness, new grad physicians are often willing to relocate to make those matches happen.

When NPs can come up with something like that then great. It is just another example of nursing needing to make political and legislative gains. I feel that if NPs are to be part of the solution to the primary care shortage then we need access to those primary care matches, that last I heard, were under utilized by new grad physicians who don't seem to be enamored with primary care. If that is wrong please let me know.

Ivan

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I am currenlty an FNP student in my clinical rotation. I attend Frontier Nursing University & we are required to find our own preceptors in our own community. The school does pay them to precept. I live in a small rural community and did not have any problem finding preceptors.

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I think one of the reasons for this problem is because we mostly work under the MD's who determine if we should precept or not. When I was looking for a clinical site, I went to several private practice offices and was told that they only precept med students. I asked one the office manager "why" because I knew that the office also had a nurse practitioner working there. But, she had no good answer for me. It was especially hard finding a site for my Women's Health clinicals.

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