Norton Healthcare’s Nurse Residency Program

Nurses are increasingly challenged with complex patient needs and fast-paced environments. Recognizing this challenge, Norton Healthcare Institute for Education & Development created the Norton Healthcare Encompass Nurse Residency Program. The program supports new graduate nurses during the transition from student to practicing nurse and helps them gain confidence and develop professional relationships.

Eligibility

All new graduate nurses complete the program to support their transition to patient care at Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s.

Program structure

• Monthly workshops provide conceptual and hands-on learning, targeted to meet new graduates’ needs throughout their first year of practice.
• New graduate nurses join a residency cohort near the conclusion of unit orientation. Residency learning will build on nurses’ classroom didactic and clinical
immersion experiences and meet newly discovered professional growth needs.
• Cohorts are made up of new graduate nurses with similar start dates and grouped by facility to customize learning.

Workshop format

• Learning is designed to help new graduate nurses gain confidence and develop professional relationships.
• Workshops provide opportunities to explore personal, professional and career growth opportunities, with an emphasis on critical thinking skills, leadership abilities, communication skills, patient safety and quality outcomes, evidence-based practice, and career development.
• Workshops allow for reflection on experiences and collaboration with other disciplines throughout the facility. Each workshop will include debriefing time for
residents to talk about their experiences with their peers and facility leadership teams.
• Workshops are intended to provide a voice for new graduate nurses and promote feelings of value, belonging and community

During this 10 month program, you will cover the following topics to advance your success: