Residency Programs
Trinity Mother Frances offers a variety Residency Programs for new graduate nurses. Our programs offers preceptorships and continued support, both clinical and didactic; to help you build your confidence and competence as a new nurse as you transition from the role of student to a professional R.N.
Program Opportunities Include:
PERIOPERATIVE NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
This five month program is designed for registered and graduate nurses who desire a career in our operating room. The resident will complete didactic sessions, online modules, mock labs and clinical rotations to build confident skills and knowledge in order to transition into the Perioperative staff nursing role.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
• Desire a full time, long term position in Surgery at Mother Frances Hospital
• Are motivated, caring professionals (GN/RN) who want an opportunity to succeed in a very technical nursing career
• Are flexible to work either AM or PM hours and can return for call duty within 30 minutes
• Are physically strong, capable of walking, standing, and performing various physical duties with a mask on and in a cold environment
• Are able to acquire RN licensure to continue in the program
• Are expected to pay a program fee and purchase textbooks
• Complete core competencies for transition post-program to staff nurse position
CARDIOLOGY NURSING RESIDENCY PROGRAM
This seven week program provides a platform for a blended learning environment, where the curriculum is based on AACN Orientation to the Care of the Acute and Critically Ill Patient, and is compromised of formal lecture, case study, and skills labs.
PROGRAM REQUIRMENTS
• Graduate from an accredited nursing school
• Must hold a temporary nursing permit
• Possesses the basic knowledge for safe nursing practices
• Experienced nurses
NEUROSCIENCE NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The study of clinical Neuroscience Nursing is fascinating and challenging. During the residency you learn how to assess your patient for neurological changes. You discover how alterations in cerebral blood flow, metabolism and organ structures create the neurological changes you observe. You follow the normal course of diseases affecting the nervous system and the nursing interventions that you use to support the patient. And you are prepared to care for a patient during a neurological emergency.
Program Highlights:
• All residents participate in a structured orientation and preceptorship prior to or while attending the residency program
• Neuroscience Critical Care: 1 four (4) hour class day per week for six (6) weeks
• Neuroscience Medical/Surgical : 1 four (4) hour class day per week for (8) weeks
CRITICAL CARE RESIDENCY
This six-week class is designed to develop the critical thinking and physical skills needed to be a competent critical care nurse. The course utilizes the Essentials of Critical Care Orientation, or ECCO, which is an exciting web-based program offering 69 contact hours of critical care nursing education. It is followed with a four to six week preceptorship, which allows the nurse to develop newly learned skills, and fosters independent performance through our individualized mentoring. Upon successful completion of this program, nurses transition into a staff role and rotate through Medical Intensive Care, Surgical Intensive Care, Trauma Intensive Care and Neuro. Intensive Care.
PEDIATRIC NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
This four (4) day program designed to help hospital nurses in their care of the pediatric population. This course progresses in a sequential fashion through each developmental stage from newborn to adolescence. The discussion of each individual age group includes assessments, laboratory values, and common disease processes associated with that age.
OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
• Identify how to treat various diagnoses for the newborn age group
• Identify how to treat various diagnoses for the infant age group
• Discuss information regarding Early & Middle Childhood and Adolescence
• Perform various roles in Pediatric Mock Codes
MED-SURG NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
This three (3) to four (4) week classroom and clinical program is designed to enhance the critical thinking skills needed to work in the Med-Surg setting. The course consists of both classroom and clinical days; spending Monday and Tuesday in the classroom and Wednesday - Friday in the clinical setting. Clinical days are structured to assign participants patients with their preceptor. The patient acuity will increase as you demonstrate the skills needed to properly care for the acutely ill Med-Surg patient. The overall goal of incorporating clinical days is to increase the patient load to the maximum amount, for that unit, by the end of the Residency Program. You will be evaluated, individually, before progressing to a higher level of care.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
• This program is recommended for new nurses as well as any nurse who has not worked in the Acute Care setting in the last six (6) months to one (1) year.
• Graduate Nurses, Graduate Licensed Vocational Nurses, Registered Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses with previous experience may participate on a case by case basis.
• Nurses hired to work in areas other than Med-Surg may participate if decided upon by their Unit Leader.
PERINATAL NURSE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Didactic sessions provide nurses with the theoretical knowledge they need to provide holistic family-centered care to women, infants, and family members during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal periods. These programs target registered nurses who are new to Perinatal nursing. And the content provided in the classroom is accompanied by guided clinical experiences to permit the real-time integration of the concepts and information presented. The course length varies according to the specialty area and encourages students to follow a course of lifelong learning.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
• Licensed or Graduate of a School of Nursing
• Recently employed in the perinatal areas: Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby, and Neonatal Intensive Care
• Desire a full-time, long-term position in a Perinatal area of Mother Frances Hospital
• L&D candidates must complete the online course Introduction to Fetal Monitoring