Nurse Residency Program

The TMF Nurse Residency Program is built on an evidence-based curriculum that meets national residency accreditation standards.
It is designed to effectively support new graduate nurses as you transition into your first professional role as a caregiver in the acute care hospital setting.

Our goal is:

  • To improve their ability to attract, train, and retain high-quality nurses
  • To provide recent nursing school graduates with the hands-on assistance they need to gain proficiency in their profession
  • To increase nurses’ satisfaction with their work and leverage this improvement to decrease turnover and increase commitment to the profession

 

Program Focus

 

Core content focuses on 3 critical areas:

Leadership: Managing resources—including staff, supplies, and services—for optimal patient care and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team

Patient Safety and Outcomes: Applying their foundational knowledge of critical, nurse-sensitive topic areas to their practice at the patient's bedside

Professional Role: The growth and development of the nurse, both professionally and personally

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Program Curriculum

Program is designed to support the new graduate nurse in:

    • Using effective decision-making skills
    • Providing clinical nursing leadership
    • Incorporating research-based evidence into practice
    • Strengthening professional commitment to nursing
    • Formulating an individual development plan

Key Features:

    • Program is one year in length
    • Layers on top of hospital and nursing orientation and specialty training courses
    • All participants partner with a school of nursing, creating a clinical and academic link
    • Core content provided in structured monthly seminars for a minimum of 4 hours
    • Systematic opportunities for access to preceptors and expert resident facilitators

Graduates of the TMF residency program:

    • Gain clinical autonomy at the point of patient care
    • Are able to incorporate research-based evidence into their practices to advance safe, high-quality nursing
    • Strengthen their commitment to nursing as a career choice