Preceptor.Network exists to completely disrupt the paid preceptor placement industry, and to make sure nursing students never again have to choose between their education and their financial survival.
For too long, the preceptor placement industry has profited from a problem it had no part in solving.
Students need clinical hours. Schools require them. Boards demand them. Without those hours, no student becomes a nurse practitioner, CRNA, CNM, or any other advanced practice nurse.
Placement services know this. They built businesses around that pressure.
They charge thousands of dollars to introduce a student to a preceptor. They lock students into exclusivity agreements. They sit between the student and the nurse who would have helped for free.
That is not service. That is rent collection.
Preceptor.Network is being built as the alternative.
Our match fee is $10. Not $1,000. Not $5,000. Ten dollars, to cover the actual cost of running the platform that connects a student to the right preceptor.
Preceptor accounts are free. Always. Reviewing student requests is free. Messaging is free. There is no enrollment fee, no listing fee, and no commission on the preceptor side.
Schools can use the platform to support their own students with their own program rules, without being forced into a pay-to-play arrangement with a third-party broker.
We are not trying to insert ourselves into the clinical relationship. We are trying to get out of the way.
The paid placement industry depends on the assumption that finding a preceptor must cost a fortune. It does not.
Most of the cost the industry charges is not the cost of matching. It is the cost of marketing, sales staff, exclusivity enforcement, and profit margin.
Preceptor.Network does not need any of that.
We invest in the technology, the verification, the privacy protections, and the human review that actually keep the network safe and useful. Then we charge what those things actually cost. The result is a fee that respects the student instead of exploiting them.
Most preceptors do not precept for money. They precept because someone said yes to them, and they remember what that meant.
The current system punishes that instinct.
It buries willing preceptors under thousands of generic Facebook posts and cold emails, then funnels the survivors through an expensive middleman who takes a cut for arranging the introduction.
Preceptor.Network restores the original model. A nurse who wants to help a student can do exactly that, without paying for the privilege and without a placement company taking credit for the relationship.
We will never charge thousands of dollars to introduce a student to a preceptor.
We will never lock students or preceptors into exclusivity contracts.
We will never sell student data to a placement service, a recruiter, or anyone else.
We will never charge preceptors to receive student inquiries.
We will never raise our match fee to chase the placement industry's pricing. As the network grows, our goal is the opposite: to bring the cost down further.
A student who needs clinical hours should be able to find a qualified, willing, verified preceptor in days, not months.
A preceptor who wants to help a student should be able to do so without being buried in spam or pulled into a contract.
A school that wants better outcomes for its students should have real tools and real visibility, not a sales pitch from a placement vendor.
And the students who come up next, the ones already paying enough to become nurses, should never again have to take on extra debt just to access the clinical experience their program already requires.
That is the world we are building.
That is the industry we intend to replace.