Student Nurse Preceptorship Grant Program (WSSNPG)
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Washington State Student Nurse Preceptorship Grant (WSSNPG)
The Washington legislature has set up a grant for student nurse preceptorship. This grant funds nurses who precept nursing students in health care settings.The goal of the preceptor grant program is to:
- Help reduce a shortage of healthcare settings for students.
- Bring more nurses into the Washington state workforce.
Who is eligible?
- Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNP)
- Registered Nurses (RN)
- Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
- You should confirm that you won't violate Local, State, or Federal ethics laws before submitting.
- Consider contacting your leadership team to verify.
Requirements to be a student nurse preceptor
To be a nurse preceptor you must:- Have an active license.
- Have at least one year of clinical or practice experience.
- Be employed at an approved practice site.
- Preceptor promotional flyer (PDF)
- WA State Student Nurse Preceptorship Grant policy (PDF)
- WAC 246-840-533
How to qualify for reimbursement
Information on how to get the student nurse preceptor reimbursement.To qualify for the reimbursement, you must:
- Meet all requirements to be a student nurse preceptor.
- Volunteer to be a student nurse preceptor with your employer.
- Employer must be an approved practice site by an approved education program.
- Complete at least 80 qualifying hours of precepting clinical instruction per student.
- A student nurse preceptor may precept up to 2 students per term.
- Submit all required documents by the reimbursement cycle deadline of your preceptorship. (See Reimbursement cycles table below.)
- Occur in a facility approved by a Washington State nursing program.
- Out-of-state programs don't qualify, even if the clinical hours take place in Washington.
- Be in the final term of clinical for RN and LPN pre-licensure students.
- ARNP students can be in any clinical cycle for reimbursement.
Learning Objectives
- Monetary incentive to precept nursing students
- Increase numbers of preceptors
- Increase clinical placement sites
- Increase WA state workforce
Victoria Hayward, MSN, RN, CNOR
Victoria Hayward, MSN, RN, CNOR is a Nurse
Consultant, Washington State Board of Nursing (WABON) where she is a member of
the Washington State Student Nurse Preceptor Grant Program (WSSNPG) team. She served
her country in the United States Navy Nurse Corps attaining the rank of
Commander prior to retiring with over 21 years of dedicated service. During her
military career, she held a variety of leadership positions and worked in
several clinical roles and specialties. She received her Bachelor of Science in
Nursing and her Bachelor of Arts in English from Binghamton University.
Victoria received a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of
Phoenix. After her military retirement, Victoria worked as full-time nursing
faculty at two community colleges with the focus on Maternal-Infant and Medical
Surgical Nursing. She also worked as a staff perioperative nurse and is
certified as an operating room nurse.