Common use of Nurse Residency Program Clause in Contracts

Nurse Residency Program. The residency program helps facilitate the transition from nursing school into a range of practice environments, xxxxxx better patient outcomes, retain new graduates, and improve professional satisfaction. They are planned, comprehensive programs through which registered nurse who are newly graduated, can acquire the knowledge, skills, and professional behaviors to deliver safe, high-quality care that meets defined (organizational or professional society) standards of practice. Nurse Residencies encompass organizational orientation, preceptor led practice-based experience, and supplemental activities to promote nursing skills and competencies. A nurse who is hired into a residency program is not eligible to voluntarily transfer outside their unit or reduce FTE for two years from the start of the nurse’s residency program, unless mutually agreed to by the parties. A nurse in a residency program may temporarily be assigned to work a shift other than regularly assigned for the purpose of training, development, supervision and/or skill mix for two years from start of the nurse’s residency program.