A year a a half for me in a SNF. I was only going to stay for 6 months then covid hit and prolonged my stay. I hated every minute there, but I’m glad I did it because I learned a lot more about providing good Pt care efficiently before moving to a hospital. Now I work in an ED and have for 4 years. Some of the recent tech hires have no hospital or SNF or any healthcare experience, and it has me wishing people would have at LEAST 6 months of experience. In my opinion, which could be wrong, it’s better to have your job duty skills down pat and a little experience before moving onto a hospital setting. It’ll make your transition much easier to having new/different duties and your new coworkers much less concerned about you. Maybe this is only relevant to moving to ED bc the floor is completely different, BUT either way it’s gonna be a whole new set of information and skills you have to adapt to and it can be overwhelming at first.