When are you no longer a "new nurse"?

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Specializes in Hospice/Mental Health/LTC/Home Health.

Next month I will have been an LPN for one year. I am tired of still being called a "new nurse" and am wondering when this ends? I know I won't be a "seasoned nurse" but when am I no longer a "new nurse"?

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I dunno.........I felt like a relatively 'new' nurse until I passed the 10-year mark. Now I'm just a used nurse. ;)

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When someone is hired after you? :)

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In the long term care facility that I used to work at, it only took a couple of weeks to shed that "new nurse" title. The facility had a revolving door of "here today" and "gone tomorrow" nurses! Sticking around longer than 2 months could quickly earn you a nurse manager position!

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When this years new grads are hired.

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I graduated Dec 08 and worked night shift. I felt less like a new nurse around 1 year when a few groups of newbies entered in after me. Then I moved to day shift.... I think they look at me like a "new nurse" all over again. The docs are used to the other nurses so I was like a new face. And I have the least experience out of the dayshifters. Ugh!

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