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Reviews from nurses who precepted for the first time

Twelve reviews written after a first block closed, in the nurse's own words, with credential and state. Two are four stars and both say exactly why. Filter by population or by mode.

★★★★★I had wanted to teach for years and assumed there was a course to take first. There is not. My license and my certification date were the whole test, and the orientation was ninety minutes on a Tuesday evening.
Seraphina OdunlamiFNP-C · Indiana
★★★★★First student, all of it by video, because the program allowed medication follow-ups on camera. I was told the permitted mode on the card, before I said yes, which is what made me say yes.
Lachlan Moriarty-VancePMHNP-BC · Utah
★★★★☆Four stars because I waited from September to January for a card and nobody hid that from me. When it came, the student did Medicare wellness visits with me and I was paid on the schedule the pay page describes.
Estelle NwaobiAGPCNP-BC · Kansas
★★★★★My certification was two years and one month old when I applied, and I nearly did not bother. The coordinator checked the date and told me I was inside the rule by five weeks.
Priscilla VantongerenFNP-BC · Missouri
★★★★★I am not a prescriber, so I thought precepting was closed to me. An MSN education student needed teaching practicum hours and my simulation lab held them. Nothing about my faculty role changed.
Augustin BeaulieuMSN, RN, CNE · Vermont
★★★★★The affiliation agreement was the part I dreaded. My practice manager signed a template the school sent, it took eleven days, and I did not draft a word of it.
Mirembe SackvilleWHNP-BC · Alabama
★★★★☆Pediatrics does not precept well by video and the site said so before I applied, which I appreciated. My four stars are for how thin the pediatric card supply is here, not for anything anyone did.
Odalys Ferreira-NunesPNP-PC · New Mexico
★★★★★I asked whether precepting counted toward my recertification and got a straight answer with the handbook rule and a caution to check the current version. It did count, and the program wrote the letter.
Kwabena LindstromFNP-C · Idaho
★★★★★Two afternoons a week of telepsychiatry follow-ups added up to a block by week fifteen. The first deposit arrived after I signed the midpoint form and the second after the final.
Valentina HrabowskiPMHNP-BC · Maine
★★★★★Leadership practicum, not a clinical rotation. The student sat in staffing and budget meetings with me for a quarter and wrote a project on throughput. I signed two evaluations and was paid twice.
Cordell Nwosu-BrightMSN, RN, NEA-BC · Delaware
★★★★★I set my rate at $18 because I doubted anyone would take it. A card came in three weeks for a student who needed inpatient hours, and my five shifts a month held her hours without argument.
Anastasia VukovicAGACNP-BC · South Dakota
★★★★★The two slow weeks are real. I saw one fewer patient an hour while my student learned the rooms, and by week four she was taking histories and handing them to me clean.
Fionnuala MbathaFNP-BC · Mississippi

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