Experience

6 hours ago, almostRN116 said:

At what point are you technically considered to have 1 year of experience? Is it from your date of hire or from the time you are off orientation?

For what purpose?

For resumes and applying for a second job. Im a new grad

On the application you put start date (not date when you finished orientation) so computer systems looking at resumes would use that for calculation purposes.

If it's an internal transfer or prn position, they'll want the date you finished orientation.

This is actually a really good question. One of the jobs I’m applying to has a year long orientation process (ED). It’s a smaller ED and my goals are to work in a level 1 trauma center, but I doubt I could leave after 1 year because I wouldn’t have even gotten off orientation yet. Not to mention it would be a horrible slap in the face to my employer, leaving right after orientation like that.

13 hours ago, Nickc58 said:

This is actually a really good question. One of the jobs I’m applying to has a year long orientation process (ED). It’s a smaller ED and my goals are to work in a level 1 trauma center, but I doubt I could leave after 1 year because I wouldn’t have even gotten off orientation yet. Not to mention it would be a horrible slap in the face to my employer, leaving right after orientation like that.

I've heard of year long probationary periods, but never year long orientations, other than OR programs. That seems unnecessarily long.

7 minutes ago, DowntheRiver said:

I've heard of year long probationary periods, but never year long orientations, other than OR programs. That seems unnecessarily long.

My understanding is that ED nurse in New York State aren’t allowed to take patients on their own until they have a year of experience. So what the program I applied to does is splits up your orientation into a two six month periods. The first 6 months you rotate around the inpatient units in 6 week intervals, practicing the skills you learned in nursing school. The last 6 months is orientation in the ED. Through this we have quarterly meetings with other new grads. I’m actually really excited about this program

1 minute ago, Nickc58 said:

My understanding is that ED nurse in New York State aren’t allowed to take patients on their own until they have a year of experience. So what the program I applied to does is splits up your orientation into a two six month periods. The first 6 months you rotate around the inpatient units in 6 week intervals, practicing the skills you learned in nursing school. The last 6 months is orientation in the ED. Through this we have quarterly meetings with other new grads. I’m actually really excited about this program

Do you have a source for this? I'd be interested to read about why New York mandated this. Honestly, I've never heard of this. I mean, I don't live there, but would be interested to read about the reason why.

38 minutes ago, DowntheRiver said:

Do you have a source for this? I'd be interested to read about why New York mandated this. Honestly, I've never heard of this. I mean, I don't live there, but would be interested to read about the reason why.

Hold tight. I’m currently having trouble finding a source. Most of my understanding has been through instructors and managers telling me so. But I did read it somewhere else once...

1 hour ago, DowntheRiver said:

Do you have a source for this? I'd be interested to read about why New York mandated this. Honestly, I've never heard of this. I mean, I don't live there, but would be interested to read about the reason why.

It seems I cannot find a reliable source online. I’m going to ask about this tomorrow because now I’m wondering if this is actually the truth or not