Confused about how one year experience is calculated?

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It may be a stupid question. Say, if I start working at a place last year January, if I resign in December, does it viewed as 1 year experience or 11 months only?

If the work environment is horrible and endangers your license and you are very worried and anxious every day. Would you stick there for another month to make it 1 year on resume or would you just quit right now even if it is just 11 months experiences? Lots of places require 1-year prior experience, Does it worth it to hold on for another month, even if working there feels like walking on the edge of a cliff? Any opinions?

Are you working at a nursing home? It sounds like it.

Anyways, whatever you decide to do, I would put the dates you have worked on your resume (hey, you're being honest). Let your future employers worry about the rest. Just because a position says they want you to have 1 year of experience, I would APPLY ANYWAYS.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
Are you working at a nursing home? It sounds like it.

Anyways, whatever you decide to do, I would put the dates you have worked on your resume (hey, you're being honest). Let your future employers worry about the rest. Just because a position says they want you to have 1 year of experience, I would APPLY ANYWAYS.

I don't think anyone is telling her not to apply at all, just that she shouldn't be dishonest about how much experience she actually has.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
It may be a stupid question. Say, if I start working at a place last year January, if I resign in December, does it viewed as 1 year experience or 11 months only?

If the work environment is horrible and endangers your license and you are very worried and anxious every day. Would you stick there for another month to make it 1 year on resume or would you just quit right now even if it is just 11 months experiences? Lots of places require 1-year prior experience, Does it worth it to hold on for another month, even if working there feels like walking on the edge of a cliff? Any opinions?

If you started working in January but were on orientation until April, your one year of experience would be finished in April.

Being worried and anxious every day and feeling like you're walking on the edge of a cliff sounds like new nurse anxiety to me. It's normal, it's common, and you just have to get through it. Some folks get through it faster than others -- it took me closer to two years than one.

It's the rare work environment that endangers your license. I'm not sure where everyone is getting the idea that their license is so fragile. In 35 years, the only nurses I've ever known who LOST their licenses were the ones who had to have been working at it: The nurse who routinely "forgot" he had two patients in the ICU, the nurse who, in his zeal to get narcotics out of the Pyxis for himself side kicked the machine and shattered the glass . . . . The nurse who came to work high, started talking about nonsense and then started screaming about nonsense, disappeared for a few hours and was found in the Employee bathroom with a needle in her arm. It took months to get her FIRED, the license took longer. The nurse who routinely took out narcs, charted them as given to her patients and took them herself -- she never did lose her license. Only her job. The nurse manager who was found with drawers full of Morphine 10 mg. tubex boxes -- 10 tubexes to a box, and at least 100 boxes per drawer -- he lost his job, but not his license. Even the NP student who decided he was qualified to do a LP -- didn't even lose his JOB.

Every year we see newbies who want to quit a job because it's "endangering my license." Frankly, I just don't see it.

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I don't think anyone is telling her not to apply at all, just that she shouldn't be dishonest about how much experience she actually has.

I'm not saying that people are telling her not to apply at all. That was just additional information I was giving her, that's all... and that she should be HONEST and put the dates of her employment on her resume.

If you started working in January but were on orientation until April, your one year of experience would be finished in April.

No... her actual first day of employment was in January. It doesn't matter when her orientation ended. Call human resources. They'll tell you the same thing.

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Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice.

Can you go to PRN status while looking for other jobs?

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The fear of losing ones license is something nursing schools are drilling into the students heads. Perhaps it wasn't always that way? It certainly was at my school. Although some of us could see through the BS more than others.

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3. Having one year of experience is the MINIMUM. Therefore it is no guarantee you will be able to find work with one year of experience in today's economy. It makes you barely qualified, which means there are dozens of other applicants more qualified than you. Getting that next job may not be as easy as you think, even with the magical one year under your belt.

Assuming that the person's one year of experience is hospital experience then that year will be enough to secure at least registry work

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

If you have made it to 11 months then you can survive to that ever important 1 year mark. The whole last month search for another position. I agree that with the current market it would be unwise to leave without another job.

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, M/S.

Have you contacted any agencies? I suspect that if you found one that needed to fill shifts bad enough they would make an ever so slight of an exception.

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Specializes in Anesthesia, ICU, PCU.

I'm pretty sure 1 year = 12 months, 1 foot = 12 inches, 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds, 1 ounce = 28 grams, 1 mole = 6.02x10^23 molecules, and 1.21 jigawatts of electricity are required to power the flux capacitor and initiate the appropriate chain traction required for travel through space and time.

Really though are we still hashing this out?

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