New Graduate Nurse Residency Program
Build confidence and skill as you launch your nursing career.
Advocate Health’s New Graduate Nurse Residency Program is a six-month, evidence-based transition-to-practice experience designed to help newly licensed registered nurses build confidence, competence, and connection as they move from academia into professional practice.
Guided by dedicated professional development educators, nurse residents complete a standardized core curriculum focused on clinical judgment, communication, interprofessional teamwork, time management, well-being, and professional growth.
Across Advocate Health regions, the residency experience is grounded in the same core topics, with a blended learning approach that may include live instructor led virtual sessions and self paced modules alongside unit-based clinical orientation and preceptorship.
Nurse Residency Overview
Advocate Health’s New Graduate Nurse Residency Programs will provide nurse residents with a standardized core curriculum focused on clinical judgment, communication, interprofessional teamwork, time management, well being, and professional growth.
Across Advocate Health regions, the residency experience is grounded in the same core topics, with a blended learning approach that may include live instructor-led virtual sessions and self-paced modules alongside unit-based clinical orientation and preceptorship.
Eligibility
All Registered Nurses with less than 6 months of practice experience.
Program Length
Six sessions over six months, two hours per session.
Program Delivery
Blended program using virtual delivery including live, instructor led sessions and self-paced modules.
Topics
Topics covered during the residency program include, but are not limited to:
- Care Coordination
- Critical Thinking
- Delegation
- Ethics
- Health Outcomes
- Interprofessional Teamwork
- Mentorship
- Nursing Scope and Standards
- Patient and Family Education
- Peer Support
- Professional Growth Pathway
- Professionalism
- Social Determinants of Health
- Time Management
- Well-Being
- Workplace Violence
Accreditation
Our Atrium Health, Advocate Health Care, and Aurora Health Care residency programs are accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs (PTAP).
Our programs in Atrium Health Floyd, Atrium Health Navicent and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist are currently undergoing their accreditation processes.
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