Re: How long should orientation be for new grads in OB??

[Guest guest]

We have a 6 week orientation for the new nurses. They work with an experienced nurse, then the last week, they do everything, with the experienced nurse sitting by to help if needed. We have about 14 nurses working in a day, so they have help if they need it after orientation.

Carlene in Georgia

[Guest guest]

The orientation in our hospital is 12 weeks for Labor and Delivery . That includes birthing rooms, high risk area, OR (scrubbing, circulating) and different procedures and antepartum unit .

Sometimes even that is not enough for new grads. Usually a nurse coming from a different unit does well with the 12 weeks of orientation.

We do over 300 deliveries a month. I hope this helps.

[OBnurses] How long should orientation be for new grads in OB??

We get new grads all the time on our busy level 3 unit, and it seems that they get 12 shifts and then are expected to work by themselves. And in that time they should know how to deal with a normal delivery, scrub, circulate and pretty much what ever else may come their way.To me it feels like we are setting them up for failure. Labour & delivery is a speciality and a lot of it is not taught in school. I have talked with a lot of the new staff to find out how they feel, and they say completely unprepared to deal with anything outside of a straight forward delivery, but are scared to speak up.Are you finding this in other hospitals as well?

[Guest guest]

We have a 12 week orientation.

Deb

---- carleneJ@... wrote:

> We have a 6 week orientation for the new nurses. They work with an

> experienced nurse, then the last week, they do everything, with the

experienced nurse

> sitting by to help if needed. We have about 14 nurses working in a day, so

> they have help if they need it after orientation.

>

> Carlene in Georgia

[Guest guest]

Twelve days is ridiculous. We hired 8 new grads this summer (we're revamping our unit and needed new staff) and they're getting 12 weeks. Each 2 week block is divided up into different nursing areas such as Labor, delivery and newborn care, circulating, scrubbing, high risk, etc. In addition, they have one class in house each week, to discuss protocols, standards of care, etc. This system is kind of new for us, but the length of time isn't. Deb

[Guest guest]

Ours get 4-5 months and seem to do pretty well.bookwurm165@... wrote: Twelve days is ridiculous. We hired 8 new grads this summer (we're revamping our unit and needed new staff) and they're getting 12 weeks. Each 2 week block is divided up into different nursing areas such as Labor, delivery and newborn care, circulating, scrubbing, high risk, etc. In addition, they have one class in house each week, to discuss protocols, standards of care, etc. This system is kind of new for us, but the length of time isn't. Deb

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