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Nurse Residency Program
The St. Tammany Health System Nurse Residency Program is accredited as a Practice Transition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs.
Our accredited program is a seven-month program designed to transition the new graduate nurse successfully to the role of a proficient and expert registered nurse. The program provides an infrastructure to expand the knowledge and skills to move from entry-level competent nurse. We have four tracks: acute adult care, emergency department, critical care, and mother-baby.
The individualized orientation ranges from 14 to 20 weeks in length.
Current program goals include:
(But we’re going to anyway)
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The guiding principles of the STHS Nurse Residency Program
To provide support for new graduate nurses by offering the opportunity to build a solid professional foundation through mentoring in the areas of skills development, clinical decision making and teamwork.
The nitty-gritty on how you can take part.
St. Tammany Health System is currently accepting applications for our RN Residency Program across various units including Adult Health, Neuro, NCU, Mother Baby, L&D, and OR. If you are a graduate from an accredited School of Nursing and NCLEX eligible, seize this opportunity by applying through the provided link.
Any registered nurse with less than six months experience in an acute care facility is eligible to apply. Applicants also must have graduated from an approved RN program, completed the NCLEX-RN exam and possess a current RN license from the state of Louisiana before the start of the program.
Candidates must provide the following documents:
Candidates will be interviewed by the hiring manager of the specific area and offers will be extended prior to graduation. RN residents hired for this program will be full-time with benefits.
For more information on the recruitment process, contact Bronwyn Doyle, AVP Workforce Strategy, at 985-898-4565 or bdoyle@stph.org.
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