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Hi all, Needing a little advice, hopefully this is aloud to post For background, I have been a RN 4 years with my main background of medical surgical nursing for 3 years and at my current position of a cardiac step-down with medical overflow 1 year. ...

Hi Nurse Beth, I hope you're doing very well! I've been working as a new grad nurse for over 2 months now. I feel like quitting due to toxic environment that I am in. I have had different preceptors at the hospital that I currently work at. ...

It's OK to be a new nurse and a preceptor. Sometimes nurses 1-2 years old have impostor syndrome, feeling like they don't know enough to serve as a preceptor. They only have to look down the hall at clinical students in their school-colored scrub...

Hello all. I am enrolled for an MSN in nursing informatics at chamberlain university and I need help with finding a preceptor for my practicum. Can anyone on here be of help?

For some unknown reason my supervisors have selected me to be a preceptor for the nurse interns coming this Summer. I have only a little over a year of experience and have never been a preceptor before. Also, as a new nurse, I had THE WORST experienc...

I recently graduated from a nurse practitioner (NP) program and experienced the infamous preceptor struggle that many students complain about. Like many NP schools, my school does not provide their students any assistance with finding preceptors. Stu...

Hello everyone, I am in my last semester of RN school and we will precept this semester. We have to come up with 10 learning objectives that I am definitely having trouble putting down on paper. I will be on a Med-Surg floor for (7) 12 hour shifts. T...

I'm an FNP and I want to share some advice that I assumed was obvious, but apparently is not. I started precepting students this fall and I had four over the semester. Two were rock stars - one is just graduating and I recommended her for a job with ...

Thank you for the feed back. I have now been training in the nicu now for a little over two months and it hasn’t gotten any better. I was really hopeful that it was going to be a better environment for me to work in. My preceptor is really nice ...

Welcome student NPs and prospective student NPs! Part 2 This is the second part of a two part series, if you haven't read the first installment, start there, if you have, welcome back. First off, a little about me. I am a board-certified Family Nurse...

By 0900 on the first day of orientation with her preceptee, Sheila knew, and groaned inwardly. Her preceptee, Kyle, was a know-it-all. During rounds on their patient in the designated COVID-19 ICU unit, the intensivist musingly mentioned transfu...

If you believe everything you read on allnurses, preceptors, by and large, are awful people put on earth to torment new grads. Since I genuinely believe that most preceptors honestly try to do the very best they can (however reluctant they might have...

I've been a nurse for the past 5-6 years; back ground PH, Ambulatory care, and case manager for patients that are transferred to acute care inpatient/obs, snf, and back etc. My new job is hospital inpatient cm. This hospital is very new to me; servic...

Sorry for the long post, but I really need some advice on my situation here.. I'm a new graduate and I've been on orientation on a surgical floor since for 5 weeks. I was hired for the night shift but they decided to have me on orientation on the day...

Many nursing students make the transition from regular, group clinical rotations to working one on one with "real nurses", or preceptors, during their senior year. Preceptors put a lot of time, energy and heart into helping teach the students during ...

Hi experienced nurses. I’m a 5 year med/surg tele nurse at a community hospital. It’s A large unit. I just started precepting a new hire/rehire about three weeks ago. She’s at week six already. I’m told she’s been working at an office as a health co...

Dear Preceptor, This past Spring 2010 semester, I was assigned to you for a whole semester to learn the ins and outs of being a nurse independent from my classmates. It was just you and I. I was excited when I began this semester-long process of lear...

Throughout my orientation, I found not just a preceptor, but a mentor, a colleague and a friend. I am forever grateful that, for me, she provided a safe environment free of hostility and judgment - but one conducive to teaching, learning and growing....

I am set to be done with the PMHNP program at Herzing Univ after my Spring 2023 semester (Jan-April). However, my clinical preceptor I had lined up just fell through. Now I need a PMHNP for 180 clinical hours. My application deadline is early October...

OK so here is the background: I'm a new grad starting in the ER were I worked as a CNA for the last year of school. I am 40 years old and a guy. I was assigned a preceptor who I knew would be tough but I have discovered that she is an abusi...

Hi everyone. I am a third semester nursing student and just recently started working as a PCA/PCT in the same hospital system as my clinical site. I have noticed during my PCA orientation that the hospital that I work at isn't "nursing student frie...

TIP #1: Check your own practice Over time you most likely have adopted, adapted and normalized some work-arounds or shortcuts into your practice. Maybe you carry a pocketful of NS flushes in your pocket, but know you shouldn't. Since you are now ...

Being a preceptor is one of the most important roles a nurse can fill. It's a vital role as nurses transition to practice whether new grad or experienced nurse. allnurses.com's Community Manager, Mary Watts, BSN, RN interviewed Kelly Powers, PhD, RN,...

I'm precepting a new grad who will be on nights (I'm day shift - lack of evidence staff on nights meant that I was chosen to precept for her first several weeks). We are in week eight by now, and I'm starting to feel like I've failed her. ? I'm hopin...

I have been an OR nurse for almost 7 years. I became burnt out and decided to move into the ED. My current preceptor (who has been an RN for 9 months) has become increasingly annoyed with me. I have not made any medication errors or caused any p...