Orientation time

This is for the seasoned nurses. How long was your training on med surge when you changed jobs?
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.

I received a med/surg job offer a few months ago and rejected it for a number of reasons. Anyhow, they offered me two weeks of orientation for this job (one week of classroom training and one week of floor training).

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.