When are you not considered a "New Grad" anymore?

[MyUserName,RN]

Is it after one year? Two? Just curious.

[WildOne]

5 years 39 days 14 hours 17 minutes and 33 seconds after starting your first jobYour welcome :)

[AndyB]

When you can pop a cap off a D50 preload with one hand and bark stat orders to the unit secretary you are ready.

[cardiacrocks, BSN, RN]

When you don't have to ask this question anymore! Typically one year of full-time paid experience.

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Is it after one year? Two? Just curious.

Maybe tomorrow. Or the next day. Yeah.

[johnnyarei]

At the hospital I work at, RNs are no longer considered "new grads" after a year of full time employment.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

One year, everywhere I have worked.

[mazy]

When are you no longer considered a new nurse?

When the stars fall out of your eyes and you keep on doing it because you love it anyway.

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

unquestionably, 5yrs. or when you can teach the season nurses a thing or two, then they won't look at you as the newbie if you will

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

When are you no longer a new grad? When you suddenly realize that you're the most experienced person on tonight!

[nursel56]

1 year after licensure or when the next class from your school graduates. If it was one year of acute experience some people would be new grads for 20 years, because they go to ambulatory, LTC, home health, etc and never work in acute care.

Some people wait for years between graduation and taking the NCLEX and pass it. That doesn't turn them into a new grad. The time between licensure and first employment is important to most employers.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

When nurses newer than you (or older than you!) start asking YOU questions or wanting YOUR input on something.

Your coworkers volunteer yourself to be the charge nurse.

Typically, you're no longer considered a new grad once you have reached your one year of (working) experience.