RN Residency Program
RN Residency cohorts begin in March, August and October. For more information, please contact Karen Pierce MSN, RN-BC, CCRN-K, NPD-BC.
Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida
RN Residency Program in Orlando
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida in Orlando offers a one-year, new graduate RN Residency Program. We provide education and training designed to transition newly graduated registered nurses from students to safe, competent professionals.
The program's main goals are to:
- Provide a comprehensive, standardized approach designed to transition a new graduate RN into professional practice.
- Improve the quality of patient care through continuously developing competent and safe beginning level clinical nurses.
This residency program benefits patients and families, the professional practice environment, and the organization as a whole through the focus of quality, safety and the patient experience. The program is also grounded in evidence-based practice and competency validation.
We post new graduate openings to our careers site when we start the recruitment process for the next cohort. The entire recruitment process may take 90 days, so we begin the process well in advance of the start date.
Nemours Children's Hospital Mission, Vision and Values
Patient Care Services and Nursing Mission
Deliver quality, patient- and family-centered care through innovation, collaboration and a culture of excellence
Nursing Vision
- Extraordinary Care
- Extraordinary Nurses
- Extraordinary Results
Values
We believe that our shared values inform and inspire our activities, helping us build and sustain a culture of trust:
- Excel
- Respect
- Serve
- Honor
- Learn
About Our Hospital in Orlando
Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida provides exceptional family-centered care on one of the most comprehensive and innovative health campuses in the United States.
We've attracted an impressive list of world-class pediatric specialists. Over 80 percent of our clinical nursing staff have BSN or higher degrees, setting a firm foundation for our Magnet journey.
Specialized Care for Kids in Central Florida
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida offers a full range of services, including highly-specialized, and much-needed, care for Central Florida children, such as:
- Emergency Department services designed just for kids, for all levels of care
- Interventional radiology services
- Muscular dystrophy program certified by the Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center and limb lengthening and limb reconstruction for kids with limb differences
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Rheumatology care
- State-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)