CAREER RESOURCES

Student & Preceptor Resources

Organize your search around providers who can teach and sites your school can approve.

EXPLORE RESOURCES

HOURLY & PER-VISIT OFFERS

Calculate Pay per Total Working Hour

Enter the offered rate, paid workload, extra time and your expenses. Use it for clinic, urgent care, locums or telehealth offers. The result is before tax and benefits.

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Illustrative numbers, not market-rate recommendations. Replace them with your offer.

Pay & Workload

How You Are Paid

Pay per Scheduled Hour ($)Scheduled Hours per WeekWorking Weeks per YearOther Unpaid Hours per WeekTraining, inbox or meetings outside scheduled time; exclude charting counted below.

Charting Time

Is Charting Already Inside Scheduled Hours?

Your Annual Expenses

Enter only costs you pay. Use zero when fully covered by the employer.

Licensing & Renewals ($/Year)Malpractice ($/Year)Other Work Expenses ($/Year)For example CE, software, required collaboration or equipment. Count each expense once.Additional First-Year Costs ($)One-time costs not already included above.

YOUR ESTIMATE

First-Year Effective Hourly Pay

$70.00

After entered expenses, before taxes

Annual Gross Pay: $32,640.00
Recurring Annual Expenses: $2,400.00
Additional First-Year Costs: $0.00
First-Year Income After Expenses: $30,240.00
Total Work Hours / Year: 432
Ongoing Effective Hourly Pay: $70.00

How This Is Calculated

Annual visits = completed visits per scheduled hour × scheduled hours per week × working weeks.

Visit pay uses annual visits × visit rate. Hourly pay uses scheduled hours × weeks × hourly rate.

Total time includes scheduled hours, additional charting and other unpaid hours. Effective pay = income after entered expenses ÷ total time.

This is a planning estimate, not take-home pay or a W-2 equivalence calculation. Taxes, benefits and costs you leave out are not deducted. Volume is not guaranteed.

Use the Result to Ask Better Questions

If effective pay falls well below the quoted rate, identify the cause: uncompensated charting, low encounter volume or expenses shifted to you. Recalculate with a realistic low-volume scenario before relying on projected income.

For a W-2 comparison, separately value paid leave, health coverage and retirement contributions. This calculator does not price those benefits or calculate taxes.

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FROM STUDENT TO PRACTICE

Find a Viable Clinical Placement

Focus on willing providers, confirmed availability and school approval.

Get the School’s Requirements in One Place

A willing provider is useful only if the school can approve the experience. Clarify requirements before spending weeks contacting clinics.

Put It Into Practice

Ask for the required specialty, patient ages, hours, dates, supervision, preceptor qualifications and affiliation process.
Ask which approved sites have hosted your program recently and whether you or the school makes the first contact.
Work backward from the school’s approval deadline, allowing time for affiliation agreements and onboarding.

Example

Your rotation needs pediatric primary-care encounters. A walk-in clinic that mainly sees adults may not supply the required mix, even if the provider is willing.

Your Next Step: A one-page rotation brief with requirements and deadlines.

Build a Shortlist of Plausible Sites

Start with clinical fit and relationships. The goal is to identify a provider who can teach and an organization that permits the placement.

Put It Into Practice

Ask faculty, prior preceptors and clinical contacts for introductions to eligible providers.
Identify nearby clinics in the required specialty. Confirm the location, service type and appropriate contact using the clinic’s own information.
Track provider or clinic, contact date, potential fit, response and next action. Label an unconfirmed name as a lead, not an opening.

Example

Instead of ‘any NP near me,’ search for family-medicine practices within a workable travel radius, then ask which clinicians see the ages required for your rotation.

Your Next Step: A focused list you can contact and follow up consistently.

Make a Specific First Request

A clinic needs enough information to decide whether the request is feasible. Lead with dates, requirements and the school’s approval process.

Put It Into Practice

Ask who handles student placements before sending a full packet.
Introduce yourself, your program, the rotation type, dates and required hours. Ask whether a qualified provider may have capacity.
Offer the one-page brief and CV. Share additional sensitive documents through the site’s approved onboarding process.

Example

‘I’m an FNP student seeking a family-practice rotation from March through May. My program requires 180 supervised hours across the lifespan. Who coordinates student placements, and may I send a one-page overview?’ Dates and hours here are illustrative.

Your Next Step: A named placement contact or a clear answer about capacity.

Qualify Interest Before Calling It a Placement

An interested clinician is one part of the decision. Employer permission, schedule, patient mix and school approval still need to line up.

Put It Into Practice

Confirm the proposed preceptor’s qualifications and whether the organization permits students.
Check available days, expected hours, patient mix, costs and whether an affiliation agreement already exists.
Send the details to the school for approval before paying, traveling or treating the rotation as secured.

Example

A preceptor can offer Fridays, but the clinic’s expected volume will not meet your hour and encounter needs by the deadline. Resolve the shortfall with your school before committing.

Your Next Step: A placement proposal your coordinator can evaluate.

Follow Up With a Deadline and a Backup

A unanswered message is not a reserved slot. Set a repeatable outreach rhythm and involve the school while there is still time to change plans.

Put It Into Practice

Ask when it is appropriate to follow up. If no timing is given, choose a reasonable interval, such as one week, and record it as your plan.
Make each follow-up brief and specific. Stop after a decline or a request not to contact the clinic again.
Agree with your coordinator on an escalation date. Keep researching alternatives until the required approvals are complete.

Example

If approval is due in six weeks, ask your coordinator now when to activate a backup site. Do not let one promising but unconfirmed conversation consume the whole window.

Your Next Step: A next-contact date for each lead and a school-agreed backup timeline.

Confirm the Placement in Writing

Finish the practical details before day one so both the learner and the site know what has been agreed.

Put It Into Practice

Confirm school approval, affiliation status, start date, hours, location and the person who can resolve problems.
Complete required health, background, training and documentation steps through the designated process.
If fees apply, obtain written payment, cancellation, replacement and refund terms before committing.

Example

Your final checklist should answer: ‘Am I approved, where do I go, who supervises me, what can I do, and what happens if the preceptor becomes unavailable?’

Your Next Step: A confirmed placement packet and a clear first-day plan.

A Search Guide, With Clear Limits

This section helps organize your search. It is not a placement service or a directory of confirmed openings. Your school sets the requirements for acceptable placements.