Jennifer Vitti

I believe I’ve mentioned about the preceptorship that my school requires for me to do in the fall. It is 160 hours with an RN (who also has to have a BSN). We get to pick the hospital and the department (with some restrictions-since it’s not just a general preceptorship, but it’s for Complex Care kind of as the clinical portion). I have my heart set on the PACU and the more I talk about it the more I want that. There are of course limited spots for the PACU and the hospital that I’d like to be placed. You can, however, request to be put with a specific nurse (as long as she has her BSN and is an RN in one of the departments that fits it’s fair game) at a specific hospital and then the coordinator will basically set that up as best they can.

Well, the other day in clinical one of the PACU nurses came up to the floor and one of my fellow clinical students told me she was also a student at my school (I’m currently at clinical at the hospital I’d like to be placed in for my preceptorship)! My clinical buddies know about my desires for my preceptorship, so they encouraged me to go talk with her. I was hesitant at first only because I didn’t know what to say and I also wasn’t sure of her pull/weight to set me up with a preceptor in the PACU there. My friends told me to never underestimate connections and that was the final shove I needed. My clinical instructor happened to be talking to her at the time (they know each other from working together and going to school together) and I walked over and introduced myself and became part of their conversation. The conversation then did shift toward the preceptorship and my instructor (who also knew what I wanted for the preceptorship) talked about the limited spaces in the PACU and my desire to be at this hospital and in the PACU. Well the RN offerred to be my preceptor in the fall! Even better than I could’ve hoped! So now I just have to let my school know and they will finish setting it up and it’s basically a done deal. I’m thrilled

Now if I could just get a job and finish/pass this semester I will be one happy nursing student!

~love always~

Jen