first job experiences

Thanks so much! I'm sure my manager doesn't see it that way, but I'm glad it's not just me! I'm trying to stick it out until I get something somewhere else, but my manager definitely isn't making it easy. (She told me she didn't know why she hired me when I missed the signatures) hopefully something opens up soon! I guess j just expected things to be easier once I was done school. Live and learn I guess.

Thanks, and yes there are a cpl co workers that have been helpful. It's tough as a float too bc I really don't work w many of the same people very often. But I'm already noticing there are some nurses who have been there a long time who are far too eager to blame the new nurse for their mistakes. (Even from a unit I haven't set foot on)it makes you kind of nervous to approach people so I tend to only ask for help when absolutely necassary. way too much drama and politics here. Hopefully something comes up sooner rather than later.

You got an average orientation. Mine have only ever been three days shifts and two evenings (the shifts I worked).

Orientation isn't about teaching you skills or time management. It's about learning the unit routine, paperwork, where supplies are kept and how the area works.

Your final placement/consolidation hours are meant to finesse your skills and demonstrate your ability to work as an LPN. It was considered a failure if you couldn't manage your preceptors work load, in my case five patients on an evening shift, all meds, woundcare and documentation.

It just seems that in the last 2-3 years that new grads are expecting longer and longer orientations to the real world. We were just talking about this at work today that new grads are almost treating their first job as an extension of their consolidation. Med errors happen, we have all done it (especially in LTC).