New Grad Nursing Program
Congratulations! You've graduated nursing school. Now what? Being a new nurse can be stressful and challenging. At King's Daughters we offer New Grad Nursing Programs to help you move beyond the student experience and into a fast-paced nursing career with mentored education and clinical competencies to support the trasition from beginner to competent professional. Through a series of classwork and experiences at the patient's bedside, new nurses will learn interdisciplinary collaboration, effective decision-making skills, focus on best practices, and prioritize patient safety and quality. New Grad Nursing Programs at King's Daughters will lead you to be the nurse you always dreamed of being.
Nurse Residency
The Nurse Residency program is designed to help build confidence and competence as a new nurse when transitioning from student to professional registered nurse.
The Nurse Residency program features:
- Six weeks of precepted clinical time on an assigned medical, surgical or cardiac unit with the department selection fair occurring at the seventh week
- Five weeks of precepted clinical time on the department selected
- Additional four weeks with an assigned resource person
- Classroom time designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to be a competent nurse at King's Daughters
- Nurturing support needed to smooth transition into practice
- Bridging any gaps you may have in a clinical skill proficiency
- Opportunities to develop a camaraderie with other members of the residency class, providing peer support
- Ability to start with your Kentucky provisional license with NCLEX test dates within 30 days of start
You will have the opportunity to learn:
- Medication safety
- Code prep/mock code scenarios
- Hands-on skills lab
- Basic dysrhythmia recognition
- Patient safety
- King's Daughters policies and procedures
- King's Daughters CARING and SPIRIT standards
Residency in Emergency Nursing
The Emergency Nursing Residency is designed to provide graduate nurses and registered nurses already in practice with a comprehensive, structured orientation to the Emergency Department environment.
The Residency provides both classroom and real-world experience. During weeks one through four, residents split their day in the classroom and in the ED working alongside an assigned preceptor. Weeks five through sixteen are spent in the ED with the assigned preceptor. Residents:
- Learn and demonstrate competence in basic, advanced and pediatric advanced life support, earning BLS, ALS and PALS certification
- Receive instruction and gain certification in non-violent crisis intervention
- Receive instruction and gain certification in the NIH Stroke Scale
- May take advantage of Hazmat Operational Level certification and Emergency Nurses Association Trauma Nurse Core Courses (TNCC)
Critical Care Nursing Fellowship
Our Critical Care Fellowship provides education, mentorship and support to nurses making the transition to critical care nursing. It takes a very special kind of person to become a critical care nurse. We’ll help you achieve your goals.
Throughout the fellowship, your educator will ensure you are matched with an engaged, competent preceptor; prepare your clinical schedule; facilitate classroom training; and facilitate focused evaluations of your progress.
Our Critical Care Fellowship includes:
- Four weeks of classroom time devoted to critical care topics and skills
- Nine weeks of clinical precepted time within our medical/surgical ICU
- Three weeks of cardiovascular rotation, including one day each shadowing in the CVOR to observe open-heart surgery; shadowing in the cath lab; on the 4k unit; and clinical precepted time within our cardiovascular recovery ICU
- The possibility of joining the CVICU staff with an additional eight weeks of training specific to CABG and value surgical recovery
During your Critical Care Fellowship, you will:
- Receive nearly 400 preceptor-supervised hours in the critical care units
- Benefit from the focused guidance of a dedicated fellowship educator who will help you navigate through your clinical and classroom experiences
- Enhance your basic clinical skills and learn the new critical care clinical skills you need
- Experience medical/surgical ICU and cardiovascular ICU patient populations
- Receive didactic experience
