MNA Preceptorship Proposal
Given the much higher percentage of newly graduated nurses in the workforce, we have proposed updated preceptor language to support nurses who are starting off their career in a specialty area. This type of nursing care requires extended learning time and a dedicated preceptor system that provides consistency and stability.- Under our proposal, newly graduated nurses working in a specialty area or PCU would be assigned a primary preceptor who will be responsible to ensure the precepted nurse has successfully completed all core competencies.
- Nurses assigned as primary preceptors will receive a $1,500 bonus – $750 payable after 3 months and $750 payable after the six-month precepted period.
- Increase the preceptorship differential.
- Management has its own proposal on this topic. Their proposal goes in the opposite direction of consistency and stability. Management wants to provide less precepting and less education than they are currently. Southcoast made the same proposal at Tobey and nurses successfully fought off this concession.