Questions clinicians ask before the first card

Not in the employment sense, and it is fairer to say so on the first page than the fifth. Each opening is one student placement you accept as an independent contractor. You keep your own practice, you pick which placement to take, you set your rate inside a band, and you are paid per block. There is no employer and no roster you did not choose.

You name a figure inside the network's band for every hour a student spends with you, and it is shown on the card before you accept. The standard opening is a 120-hour block, paid at that figure for the hours logged; a half-block of 60 hours pays half as many. The money arrives in two direct deposits, one when you sign the midpoint evaluation and one when you sign the final.

For clinical nurse practitioner placements: an active, unencumbered license, national board certification in the population the student is training for, and two years of practice since you certified. Registered nurses holding an MSN or higher with a current teaching or management role take education and leadership practica, which are not clinical hours.

Some are, partly. The student's program decides what share of a rotation may be completed by telehealth and writes that into the affiliation agreement, so the answer is set before you ever see the card. Psychiatric care and primary care follow-up visits carry the largest video share; acute care and anything procedural carry almost none.

About three weeks from application to approval in the usual case, and most of that is the program confirming your documents and signing an agreement with your practice. After approval, cards arrive on the academic calendar, which clusters around January, May and August. A quiet stretch in autumn is normal and nobody will promise you a student by a date.

Nothing, at any stage. Programs and their students carry the cost of placement, so there is no application fee, no listing fee, no charge for the orientation and no cut taken from a block. The only money moving is the two halves of your fee coming toward you, reported on a 1099-NEC once the year reaches $600.

Almost always, because the affiliation agreement binds the program and the practice where the student will sit, and somebody with authority signs it. If the practice is yours, that is you. If you are employed, it is usually a practice manager or medical director, and larger systems generally have a standing route for it.

Yes. Your four documents are verified once and each school then approves you against its own handbook. Cards come from every program that has approved you, and the cap you set on concurrent students decides how many you hold at once.

Say so early, ideally inside the first fortnight. Most of these turn out to be scheduling or expectations and are fixed in a call. Where the fit is genuinely wrong the program moves the student, you are paid for the hours already logged, and nothing is recorded against you.

One opening. Students usually finish a 120-hour block across a term of 14 to 16 weeks at eight or nine hours a week. When it closes you decide whether to look at the next card. There is no minimum number of placements and no notice period for leaving.

Neither. Preceptor Jobs lists paid preceptor openings and explains what they are, and it is the front door to placements run by the mentor network. It does not enroll students, award academic credit, employ preceptors or place anyone in employment.

Under ANCC, precepting hours in your certification role count toward the professional development categories, evidenced by a letter from the program. AANPCB permits up to 120 precepting hours in place of 25 non-pharmacology continuing education contact hours. Check the current handbook before you count on either.