We write about the things the nursing industry doesn't want to talk about: the fees, the broken systems, and who's actually profiting off your education.
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You didn't have to say yes. Most preceptors aren't compensated. You did it anyway because you remember what it was like. This one's for you.
Read moreWhat happens when your confirmed preceptor cancels days before your rotation? Until now, you were on your own. Not anymore.
Read moreYou found a preceptor who said yes. But your school and their clinic still need to sign an affiliation agreement. This process can take months and kill your placement.
Read moreMost placement services match you with whoever's available. We match you with preceptors who meet your specific program requirements. Here's the difference.
Read moreOnline programs are great for lectures and exams. But when it comes to clinical placements in your home state, many programs have no infrastructure to help you.
Read moreThere are over 4 million registered nurses in the US. They show up for every shift, every crisis, every patient. It's time the system showed up for them.
Read moreSummer rotations are some of the most competitive. If your program runs summer clinicals, now is the time to lock down your preceptor. Not next month. Now.
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Read moreYou did everything right. Found a preceptor, got approval, planned your schedule. Then they cancel. Here's what to do next.
Read moreWhen you sign up with your school email, we already know your program. No forms, no document uploads. Here's how that works and why it makes matching faster.
Read moreNP programs keep growing class sizes and tuition revenue keeps flowing. But the clinical placement infrastructure hasn't kept up, and students are the ones paying the price.
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You're paying $40,000+ in tuition and the school won't even help you find a clinical placement. You're on your own, cold-calling clinics like it's a part-time job nobody told you about.
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Placement services saw the preceptor shortage and smelled money. Now they charge students thousands of dollars for something their school should have handled. Enough.
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Tuition. NCLEX fees. License renewals. CEUs. Verification fees. Background checks. Drug screens. Certification exams. At what point does this profession stop billing us just for showing up?
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Schools charge tuition. Placement services charge fees. Credentialing companies charge verification fees. But the preceptor who actually teaches you at the bedside? Most of them get little to nothing.
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We need more nurses. Everyone agrees. But the system that trains nurses is choking itself with a clinical placement shortage that nobody in charge seems interested in fixing.
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We didn't build this platform because we saw a market opportunity. We built it because someone we love is a nurse, and we watched this broken system eat her alive.
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