Registered Nurse Residency Program

Taking applications for january, february and july 2027 start (Nurses in their first year of rn practice)

When you begin your nursing career at Memorial Health, whether as an extern or in our Nurse Residency Program, you’ll find clinical colleagues, preceptors, and mentors who are dedicated to helping you reach your full potential. Plus, you’ll work in a supportive medical system that offers clinical ladders, resources to continue your professional growth, and lucrative compensation and extraordinary benefits designed to enhance your overall wellness.

What You’ll Do

• 80 hours, with full benefits
• Comprehensive
• Learning: Attend all classroom seminars focused on critical thinking, leadership, and other essential nursing skills. Engage in preceptorship and didactic learning to advance from a novice to a proficient professional nurse.
• Patient
• Care
• Excellence: Apply the nursing process—assessment, diagnosing, planning, implementation, and evaluation—to deliver exceptional patient care. Coordinate and direct all nursing activities for your patients to ensure effective and efficient care.
• Collaborative
• Approach: Partner with various healthcare professionals to guarantee optimal patient outcomes. Accurately document patient care, and provide timely and relevant health education to patients and their families, including written materials.
• Continuous
• Improvement: Participate in performance improvement initiatives to enhance the quality of care. Stay updated on nursing practice standards and hospital policies, and maintain a professional demeanor in all interactions.
• Emergency
• Readiness: Be prepared to handle emergencies outside of regular working hours as needed.
• Core
• Values: Embody Memorial’s core values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Service. Exhibit regular and reliable attendance and engage in mandatory education and in-services, including team training, safety, and infection control.

What You Bring

• Educational
• Background: Graduate from an accredited nursing school and hold a current RN license in Ohio.
• License/Certification
• Requirements:
• Licensed as an RN in the State of Ohio
• Completes twenty-four (24) contact hours of approved CE during each two (2) year licensure renewal period consistent with requirements of Ohio Board of Nursing