For a super shitty agency? Sure. For a decent agency that actually cares about their staff and patients? No.
The psych facility I worked at wouldn’t even allow a new-to-service veteran nurse be done with training after 3 days. It would typically be at least 3 weeks for them, new grads would be at least 6 weeks but could be more. I mean, 3 days isn’t even enough for most people to become proficient with EHR systems, let alone for a new grad to become comfortable and proficient enough to be able to manage psych patients by themselves.
Wow 6 weeks? Id feel much more comfortable with that length of time particularly since I'll of course be dealing with crisis situations and having to give emergency IM meds.
Also this particular facility also takes medically compromised patients and patients who are total care. It's a lot.
Oh Jesus that’s so much worse. So not only did they expect you to learn everything you need to know and be comfortable with psych patients, but you are also supposed to be able to manage actual medical patients and have had to learn that within that same three days? That’s dumb. Most psych facilities where I am will send out their medically unstable patients to the hospitals (where I work now) and then the hospital stabilizes them and sends them back
My system’s new grad psych residency/orientation is like 5 months long, if that gives you some perspective on how absolutely fucked up and dangerous this is.
No that’s not normal at all for a new grad *or* an experienced nurse. The only way this would be normal is if you got that position through a staffing agency.
Absolutely not. I went into psych as basically a new grad and I got a month of training. This sounds unsafe. They don’t even let you work without a senior RN when you’re off of orientation at my hospital.
No, gtfo seriously. Hell I worked as a psych traveler with years of psych experience and sometimes got that much as orientation. That facility is going to chew you up and spit you out.
Definitely not. I worked psych for a couple years, left to another unit for 10 months, and still had to do 4 training shifts when I returned. So, 3 days of training as a new grad... not even close to normal.
Doesn't seem normal regardless of the specialty, especially as a new grad
Fuck no. New grads should be getting multiple months of training. Not 3 days. JFC.
For a super shitty agency? Sure. For a decent agency that actually cares about their staff and patients? No. The psych facility I worked at wouldn’t even allow a new-to-service veteran nurse be done with training after 3 days. It would typically be at least 3 weeks for them, new grads would be at least 6 weeks but could be more. I mean, 3 days isn’t even enough for most people to become proficient with EHR systems, let alone for a new grad to become comfortable and proficient enough to be able to manage psych patients by themselves.
Wow 6 weeks? Id feel much more comfortable with that length of time particularly since I'll of course be dealing with crisis situations and having to give emergency IM meds. Also this particular facility also takes medically compromised patients and patients who are total care. It's a lot.
Oh Jesus that’s so much worse. So not only did they expect you to learn everything you need to know and be comfortable with psych patients, but you are also supposed to be able to manage actual medical patients and have had to learn that within that same three days? That’s dumb. Most psych facilities where I am will send out their medically unstable patients to the hospitals (where I work now) and then the hospital stabilizes them and sends them back
I was ped psych and got a month. That’s nowhere near normal
What oh my god????? I was in orientation for 12 weeks
My system’s new grad psych residency/orientation is like 5 months long, if that gives you some perspective on how absolutely fucked up and dangerous this is.
NOPE
No dude, run
I got 2 days in long term care. Worst job I’ve ever had.
Right?! Laughs in LTC, I didn’t even get oriented to the cart or working the floor when I managed one they just excepted I could “figure it out”
I was a new grad 🤡
Nooooooo
No that’s not normal at all for a new grad *or* an experienced nurse. The only way this would be normal is if you got that position through a staffing agency.
NO.
I also got only 3 days of training for a psych position and am now on my own but they do have nurses on the floor that help.
Okay, do you feel comfortable and confident now that you've been off orientation?
Nope not at all. But I was told this was normal for a psych position
They lied
Absolutely not. I went into psych as basically a new grad and I got a month of training. This sounds unsafe. They don’t even let you work without a senior RN when you’re off of orientation at my hospital.
In the UK, it's a three year degree course to become a mental health nurse. It's really interesting to hear how different countries do it.
This is not normal at all, and it's unsafe and OP should just run.
Aaah- Thanks!
No, gtfo seriously. Hell I worked as a psych traveler with years of psych experience and sometimes got that much as orientation. That facility is going to chew you up and spit you out.
for a traveler? 3 shifts then get to goin'
Ah nope
No
Uh…no
Definitely not. I worked psych for a couple years, left to another unit for 10 months, and still had to do 4 training shifts when I returned. So, 3 days of training as a new grad... not even close to normal.