Teaching as a new grad?

[bankssarn]

A girl I graduated with (in December '11) is teaching a clinical on the tele unit I work on. She has less than 6 months of RN experience and she's already teaching a med-surg clinical. That doesn't seem right to me. I'm sure she's a good nurse and all, but she doesn't have the experience to pull from. I know I wouldn't feel comfortable teaching a group of nursing students this early in the game. I still have SO much to learn! So, what are your thoughts? Is it okay for a new grad to teach?

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

I have to agree with artsmom. On my unit we have had a couple of years worth of new-grad staff members preceptoring new-grad new staff for their unit orientation. Right now we have someone who has been told she has to do several more classroom days with our educator because her didactic orientation wasn't up to current standards - BUT she's been assigned to orient a new staff member who will be right there in the classroom with her! The effects of this are starting to be quite obvious... because we have a problem with turnover and MANY new staff every year, we're getting into a spot where more than half of our nurses are missing things that a more experienced nurse, or someone who was taught the ropes by a more experienced nurse, wouldn't miss. And sometimes it's an out-and-out disaster. As in children die.