Real question, because I think I'm getting played. Just finished my third orientee this year on tele and found out today we get nothing for precepting. Zero. Not a dollar. My friend at the hospital across town gets $2 an hour extra plus a bump on her eval.
I'm doing my whole assignment plus teaching, plus checking every single thing they chart, plus being the one blamed if they miss something. And when I asked my manager she said precepting is "a professional development opportunity."
So what does your place pay? Trying to figure out if I should push back or if this is just normal everywhere.
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Post replyMy favorite part is getting a full tele assignment plus an orientee, and then charge gives you the admit because you have two sets of hands. Two sets of hands, one license, and only one of us knows where the crash cart is.
Get a few other preceptors on your unit to bring it up together. One nurse asking is a complaint. Five nurses asking is a retention problem, and managers actually have to answer for those.
I'll be the unpopular one. Nobody paid my preceptor extra and she still took me seriously. I want the diff too, but I don't love the idea of people refusing to precept until money shows up, because the orientee is the one who pays for that.
Is it written in your job description or clinical ladder anywhere? At my old place it counted toward the ladder points, which ended up being worth way more than a per-hour diff. Might be worth asking HR before you assume you're getting nothing.
We get $1.50/hr on med-surg, but only if you've taken the preceptor class. It's an 8 hour course they schedule on your day off, so honestly it's a wash.
Professional development opportunity is manager speak for free labor. Same thing on my unit, zero dollars, and they act surprised when nobody volunteers.