Orientation

Nurse Residency Program

Providing education and guidance throughout the entire first year helps new nurses prepare for practice in the complex, ever-changing clinical environment of acute care.

Key features of the nurse residency program for new nurses include:

• Twelve full months of education and support to smooth your transition into practice
• A professional partnership with an experienced voluntary and enthusiastic nurse preceptor who works one-on-one with you for at least three months or until you feel ready to practice independently
• A multi-tracked learning program to expand your knowledge consisting of:
  • Evidence-based clinical orientation featuring presenters from every level of the organization
  • Didactic coursework to taught by nurse leaders and other experts covering all aspects of professional nursing, including evidence-based practice, shared governance, delegation, and the forces of Magnetism
  • Monthly Nursing Grand Rounds offering review of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and case studies presented by your front-line nurse colleagues
  • Monthly support group that allows you to share experience with other new nurses working throughout the hospital
• Access to a fully-equipped Simulation Lab under the guidance of trained super-users
• Opportunities to participate in our nursing councils and our pain resource nurse program
• Motivation and reward for advancement through our Clinical Excellence Ladder

The Nurse Residency Program enables you to gradually progress to managing a full assignment while developing your skills and expanding your knowledge base as a professional registered nurse.

Nursing Grand Rounds Program

Purpose:

To Provide

• Educational and psychosocial support for Graduate Nurses (recruitment and retention)
• Continuing education/teaching opportunities for both experienced and new nurses
• Support preceptors by supplementing bedside learning with relevant didactic content

Measurement outcomes

• Nurse Retention
• Occupational/organizational commitment among new grads
• Promote competence and confidence
• Physician satisfaction with nursing knowledge
• Patient Satisfaction with nursing responsiveness

The target audience
Nurses across all departments who graduated within the previous 18 months
All nurses invited to Nursing Grand Rounds

Time commitment

• 7 hours per month for nurse resident
  • 4 hours residency content
  • 3 hours Nursing Grand Rounds
• Grand rounds open to all nurses

The model

• Parallel tracks
  • Didactic content
  • Professional nursing issues, including service excellence, evidence-based practice, the Magnet journey, shared governance, nursing research, etc.
  • Psychosocial support sessions
  • Nursing grand rounds
    • Pathophysiology
    • Pharmacology
    • Tales from the Bedside (case studies)

The faculty

• AHI clinical educators
• Nursing directors and CNO
• Executive leadership
• Diabetes educator
• Infection control
• Clinical III and Clinical IV nurses
• Clinical II nurses for case study presentations
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Outside speakers (graduate students, faculty)
• Other experts as appropriate

Forces of Magnetism

• Quality of nurse leadership
• 5. Professional models of care
• 7. Quality improvement
• 11. Nurses as teachers
• 14. Professional development