A feeling of impending doom

3 Disaster is on the horizon. We have new grads orienting, once they finish their orientation they are being given an orientee to train. They took away preceptor pay and with our floor being so short staffed, there simply is not anyone willing to train anyone. I love new grads. I love them, they are positive and full of hope and knowledge. But they don't know what they don't know and should be learning not teaching. And our manager chooses the cocky ones to be the preceptors. So there are a few "know it all" newbies leading the troops. There are people who have never put in a foley teaching new people how to put in a foley. Its a mess. I think the time has come to move on.

Please discuss. Anyone ever seen anything like this? Its scary.
Doesn't sound like a healthy culture to adopt and the more I read the more prevalent it seems. Its all about the bottom line $$$

Those of is with experience need to do what we can to help guide the new graduates. The cocky ones will always exist, but from experience I know that many new nurses gravitate more toward those who offer kinder guidance. Just be available, and let them know you are available. It won't solve the problem, but it doesn't make it worse.

It's a frightening trend....they take away the pay for the seasoned nurses an the newer nurses feel that they are of course qualified I mean after all they do have a BSN....it's what they've been trained to do.....

Quote from Esme12It's a frightening trend....they take away the pay for the seasoned nurses an the newer nurses feel that they are of course qualified I mean after all they do have a BSN....it's what they've been trained to do.....

not a good scenario for sure. I would get your risk manager and CNO involved with some nurses who can present documentation and evidence as to why this is a poor method.However, if their budget does not allow preceptor pay and preceptors won't work without it, then the problem is also with the preceptors. They have a professional duty to assist new hires in reaching competency

Agree c classicdame. Bring along a couple of copies of "From Novice to Expert" for support and to share. Bet they have no clue.

Quote from classicdamenot a good scenario for sure. I would get your risk manager and CNO involved with some nurses who can present documentation and evidence as to why this is a poor method. However, if their budget does not allow preceptor pay and preceptors won't work without it, then the problem is also with the preceptors. They have a professional duty to assist new hires in reaching competency

This just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Quote from classicdamenot a good scenario for sure. I would get your risk manager and CNO involved with some nurses who can present documentation and evidence as to why this is a poor method.However, if their budget does not allow preceptor pay and preceptors won't work without it, then the problem is also with the preceptors. They have a professional duty to assist new hires in reaching competency

Yikes. As a new grad I would certainly hope my preceptor had a wealth of experience under her belt before training me. I would not be comfortable with this at all.

More and more we're all kow-towing to the bean counters. Until nurses are in charge of nursing again, it's just best not to get sick.

I have precepted for no extra pay, I will not do that anymore. I enjoyed working with them, however, it is a TON of extra work/time. Plus, No consideration is given with the assignment (unless it is "oh, there is two of you! You can take the crazies/admissions/all the total cares") Newbies and students are SLOW, as is to be expected. I will no longer do it for free. I will not agree to extra duties without extra compensation. If training new nurses is expected of us, simply because we are nurses, then why don't nursing instructors and nurse educators in the hospitals give up their pay? Why don't I just work for free, I am a nurse, after all - shouldn't I do all this out of the goodness of my heart?