WHAT IS A SECONDARY PRECEPTOR?
• If a CTA works less than 24 hours per week, students can have difficulty getting enough hours to have sequenced shifts. Nurses who work 24 hours often volunteer to be secondary CTAs for the students assigned to their unit and shift. Students will contact the secondary CTA and request shifts from his/her schedule when the primary CTA is unavailable. Secondary CTAs are similar to “substitute teachers”. They need to collaborate with the primary, and provide evaluative data (usually verbally) to the primary. • The option to be Co-CTAs is available if two nurses with opposite schedules want to join forces to both work with one student. Responsibility for collaboration in evaluation would rest with both CTAs.
