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What's It Like For recently licensed or re-entry Nursing Professionals?
"My advice is to consider the way you are treated during your preceptorship. Everyone here, including the physicians, reached out to me and offered assistance. They made time to tell me 'This is the reason we do things this way,' so I understood what I had to do."
RN Residency Program
Our RN Residency Program for summer 2008 is currently full. We anticipate offering our next RN Residency Program during the winter of 2008. Please check back at that time to learn more about the program and the upcoming schedule. For further information about current job postings, you are welcome to visit our careers page.
Thank you for your interest in John Muir Health!
Hands-On Learning
Your Preceptors are unit-based RNs who will work with you one-to-one to impart technical and professional role knowledge and performance expectations to help develop your clinical decision-making skills. Count on approximately 450 hours of intense learning.
Qualified nurses and health care professionals will steer you through over 180 hours of classroom and skills lab education.
Expert Navigators
A Mentor is selected for each Resident to steer you through the complexities of the nursing profession. You'll also have a Preceptor who will work with you, side-by-side, for five months to support you as you learn and grow.
Inter-related Units
Individualized rotations [or "looping"] during your 5-month Residency will familiarize you with other departments related to the unit you are assigned to work in or your 'home' unit.
We support your progress from day one...from reimbursement for the NCLEX Preparatory Course to follow up with a Student Loan Forgiveness Program. Eligible courses of study are an AA degree in Nursing, and on-site RN-to-BSN/MSN Programs with an award up to $5,000 a year for a maximum benefit of $15,000. We also offer up to $15,000 a year with a maximum benefit of $30,000 for a BSN study course.
If you'd like your nursing career to be steered by skilled navigators, consider applying at John Muir Health.
Specialty Areas:
The John Muir Behavioral Health Center partners with four Bay area nursing schools to provide clinical training for their BSN, MSN programs as well as colleges and universities for social service, creative therapies, and counselor clinical pre-creatorship training. This offers our staff the opportunity to teach new nurses, social workers, counseling staff, and creative therapists while updating their skills and knowledge.
Our staff is a mixture of experienced and new graduate nurses and our orientation programs are individualized to meet the learning needs of each new hire. Nurses who are selected have the critical thinking skills to make decisions, and the Nurse Managers work with staff to develop required competencies in the specialty of psychiatric nursing. During the orientation period, new hires complete on-line courses, classroom lectures, and clinical preceptorships in their assigned unit, based on individual needs. Nurses have the opportunity to be cross-trained in other units to have flexibility and expand their skill base.
Emergency/Trauma
Experienced RNs who decide to make a career change into the Emergency Department are provided with a customized orientation and training program. Depending upon the need, new staff to the Department will be paired for 4-6 weeks with an experienced RN preceptor for in-depth, one-on-one training in the Emergency Department environment. In addition, for those RNs who have no Telemetry experience, the 8-Week Cardiac Care Course provides a comprehensive introduction to cardiovascular care.
Surgery
The Concord campus has a 6-month surgery program, where a new grad, if accepted, is trained and paid as a Level I nurse. Our Master's Prepared Educator, Charge Nurses and Surgical Administration supervise this program. The program consists of a didactic course dealing with all aspects of surgery, and rotation through all services where they learn the practical side of scrubbing and circulating as they work with an experienced mentor.
Upon completing the New Grad course the nurse should have a strong grasp of the knowledge and clinical skills needed to work in surgery. Nurses who have a special interest in a particular service line continue to improve their skills and gravitate to that service. We believe in continual education, supporting outside conference attendance, training and continual exposure to in-house services.
PLUS Much More!
We support your progress from day one...from reimbursement for the NCLEX Preparatory Course to follow up with a Student Loan Forgiveness Program. Eligible courses of study are an AA degree in Nursing, and on-site RN-to-BSN/MSN Programs with an award up to $5,000 a year for a maximum benefit of $15,000. We also offer up to $15,000 a year with a maximum benefit of $30,000 for a BSN study course.
Financial Assistance Programs Support Your Professional Growth
At John Muir Health we believe that our employees and their development are key to maintaining our reputation as the premier health care provider in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have developed innovative opportunities for our valued employees to grow as individuals and live their dream careers.
Financing Your Education
Student Loan Forgiveness
The cost of education can be expensive, and as a new graduate you may be faced with large student loans. Benefited employees who meet our criteria and have a new degree in one of the following areas are eligible to apply for our Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
- Clinical Laboratory Science
- Doctor of Physical Therapy
- Doctor of Pharmacy
- Nursing
- Medical Imaging
- Some Master's level degrees such as M.B.A.
Tuition Reimbursement
We know that pursuing your educational goals can also be expensive. And sometimes, our employees can benefit from additional coursework that supports their current and future work at John Muir Health. For this reason, we offer you tuition reimbursement. After one year of service, benefited employees who work a part-time schedule or more can take advantage our generous Tuition Reimbursement Program.
Employee Scholarship Award ProgramAt John Muir Health we encourage our employees to take a leadership role in the community and in our organization. Employees who are pursuing further education and who meet the program selection criteria, tenure and service requirements, may be selected to receive an award.
Work Study Program
We know that in today's environment it is challenging to enter an educational program, work and manage personal obligations. Full-time employees who meet tenure and service requirements can apply to enter our Work Study Program. If they are selected to participate, they will receive release time to pursue full-time education while maintaining their current rate of pay and benefits.
If you'd like your nursing career to be steered by skilled navigators, consider applying at John Muir Health.