How Long is your New Grad Orientation at your facility?

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  1. How Long is your New Grad Orientation at your facility?

    • 109
      Less than one month
    • 210
      Up to two months
    • 195
      Up to four months
    • 107
      Up to six months
    • 37
      Greater than 6 months

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How Long is your New Grad Orientation at your facility? Please answer the poll and post a reply to share more specifics. Thanks

Specializes in Emergency.

My provincial government now has a plan, where hospitals are paid to hire me for I think its three months and give me an orientation as extra staff. Then at the end, if they decide to hire me FT after this initial trial orientation phase, the government pays the hospital another three months of my wage--but I dont think we have to be extras after that. It varies unit to unit, but now all new grads have a minimum of three months. Because I'm in the ER, I was given the full six months as an extra person.

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Specializes in medsurge.

I just finished my new grad orientation. Where I am, Med-Surge or any other non critical care unit is 5 months and ICU, tele, and ER is 10 months.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

I work in a complex continuing care hospital and as a new grad you get 10 days officially but there is ongoing support from all staff.

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Specializes in Cardiac/Med Surg.

hi

my orientation to an imcu floor as a new grad was 6 months but really at 5 i was on my own pretty much. love the staff and everyone is always helpful and reminding me to ask if i need help. i had an ekg/phlebotomy class in that time for 1 week and a 2 week basic arrythmia class (both paid for by work and at the community college). i will be at my 1 year at the end of april but get to go to the icu class, which you are usually not sent to till your are there one year(echo class) for the month of feb. monday thru friday for 4 weeks, pretty cool i think!!

i had a great preceptor and my clinical manager is the best. i also oriented and trained soley on nights since that was the schedule i wanted. i did 2 days on day shift to learn discharges, and experience cardiac cath lab.

i think on the regular floors the orientation is 3 months, but i am not sure.

love my job and nursing. i worked in the lab at the samw hospital for 25 years.

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When I started out in med-surg, I oriented for 12 weeks. I just got a new job in the ER and my orientation will be 12 weeks after 2 weeks of classes.

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