Nurse Residency Program
Begin your nursing career on a strong foundation with The William W. Backus Hospital's Nurse Residence Program, the only one of its kind in eastern Connecticut.
Our comprehensive five-month Nurse Residency Program is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of today's new nurses. Recent RN graduates and nurses with less than one year acute care experience are encouraged to apply. The program, which helps ease the transition for new nurses coming out of school and into a fast-paced acute care setting, will support you in strengthening essential nursing skills and knowledge base required for practice in our high tech, acute care environment.
The program incorporates a strong competency-based orientation designed to help nurses gain proficiency in nursing care through the support and guidance or senior nurse mentors. This innovative program includes a combination of weekly classroom instruction and support groups, skills lab training, simulation experiences, and precepted unit based orientation. Multiple medical disciplines work collaboratively to enhance the learning process including the performance of patient rounding with skilled physicians.
You will receive individualized attention in this extensive nurse training program to help transition and prepare you for nursing practice. Experience monthly rotations to five medical surgical units in addition to other specialty areas that may interest you in: Labor and Delivery, Emergency Department, Critical Care, Surgical Services and Psychiatric Services.
We will assist you in the transition towards becoming a confident and competent professional nurse and aid you in developing effective decision-making skills in clinical judgment and performance. Strengthen your commitment to nursing as a professional career choice by choosing wisely and choosing the Backus Nurse Residency Program.
Upon hire, the Nurse Resident is assured a position but shift, number hours and unit are not determined until later in the program. Near the end of the residency program the Nurse Resident will interview with managers for final placement on a unit.
Our 2010 Winter Nurse Residency Program starts Monday February 15th 2010 and runs through July 19th 2010. During this 23-week program the Nurse Residents will be working day shift 38 hour per week.
Applications are no longer being accepted for the 2010 Winter Program.
To apply:
- Complete the online Nurse Resident application in its entirety. The Nurse Resident position is found by clicking on “current openings”, then “nursing professional”.
- Complete the Nurse Residency Enrollment Form below.
- Get two current letters of recommendation from clinical instructors, faculty or the nursing program director. Personal references are not accepted.
- For Fall 2009 graduates, unofficial nursing school transcripts are accepted. For May 2009 graduates, official nursing school transcripts are required.
- Note that qualified applicants MUST have completed their NCLEX examination prior to the February 8th start date. Employment is contingent upon passing the nursing boards and receipt of a Connecticut RN license.
- Mail items 2, 3 and 4 in one package no later than by November 25th, 2009 to: Michael Moran, Clinical Recruiter, The William W. Backus Hospital, 326 Washington Street, Norwich CT 06360 For questions contact Michael Moran at: mpmoran@wwbh.org 860-823-6588
Incomplete applications will NOT be considered.