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Employers expect to do on-the-job training for new hires to reinforce educational training.

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"Administrators will tell you that even for that new grad, who comes onto the medical-surgical floor, that it will take a year of real-life experience. So, it's kind of on-the-job training. You can imagine that if you learn to care for somebody in a book and you had a few hours of on-site job training, that you wouldn't really be an expert at something, at least all the intricacies of the human body and what can happen, until you've seen a lot of different things. So, it takes about a year." Northeast
"Clinical rotations used to be about 52 weeks long, and that was because everything was done manually. As automation has come, true rotations are now between 16 and 20 weeks. So, it's cut by more than a half. And when we train, we just provide a student—like we're going to teach you everything we learned in 30 years of our work...but it's just giving them the experience of being in a lab, being around the instrumentation, and so forth.

Question: If you were advising folks in training your applicants, would you tell them to go back to the 52 weeks?

Employer: No. Well, instrumentation is so different in every lab, but you can get a general feeling for troubleshooting an instrument. We're talking about quality control. Some of those things are always going to remain the same, but when you go to, say, the university, or to the hospital, they'll have more technology that you have to learn there."		 Northeast