Orientation time

Not so relevant, but when I switched from Peds to PICU, I had a 5-6 week orientation. But I had also cross-trained to intermediate PICU patients. We have an experienced PICU nurse that just started recently who has a 4 week orientation, but she certainly doesn't need it! Just long enough to learn our charting and P&P.

One girl from our floor had 4 or 5 weeks orientation, but it was a specialty floor and she had prior experience.

I was a PRN float to all floors with only 6 months of nursing experience when I first hired in at my hospital. I got 8 hours of orientation on each floor.

As a new grad, I had one week on the floor and never had any desk orientation. After my first week, I had 6 pts of my own to take care of.

I'm starting on med/surg/tele tomorrow, coming from psych. I'm going to get 8 weeks of orientation, 12 weeks if I need it.

"As a new grad, I had one week on the floor and never had any desk orientation. After my first week, I had 6 pts of my own to take care of".

That is exactly what I had. I felt like I was thrown into a train wrack.

With about 8 months previous experience, i moved to a different hospital , same specialty and they gave me 6 weeks orientation - 2 weeks of class and 4 weeks on the floor.