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Over the past 5years or so I have noticed an increase in anxiety in new grads and I am wondering if the shortened training is causing more problems for them.
When I trained admittedly I trained many many moons ago I trained a full 3 years in a hospital, I know we did not have such hightened anxiety that the new Grads seem to have at the moment.
We got no preceptorship or mentoring and after 5 weeks I was in charge.
Nurse training changed because we complained we weren't support at all and the powers that be wanted to give new grads more support and education, taking them away from the floor for long periods of time.
We were more annoyed that we had so much work to do and the expectations were you hit the floor running.
It seems no different today the new grads hit the floor running with less knowledge and experience.
I know here in America we pay for our education so we want to complete the education in the quickest way possible so it costs us less money in the long run.
It is now more expensive to train the new grads on how to nurse which is great if they actually get the support, mentoring and training for at least 3-6 months but longer if they need it.
It appears that in the nursing profession we can not get it right!