Emergency RN Preceptor Programs
- Getting placement in an ER can be difficult but invaluable to your future career.Nurse in Scrubs image by Mary Beth Granger from Fotolia.com
When you graduate from nursing school, most hospitals do not wish to hire a new nurse directly into the Emergency Room. The ER requires a special set of skills. If you are anxious to get into an ER position right away, the best bet lies with finding a preceptor program that will see you through for the first few months, making you more appealing for full time work. Most such programs are associated with different schools, so you should inquire while still attending your program. - UCSF, University of California San Francisco, offers a program in a Level II Emergency Department. In order to expedite wait times in the ER, this hospital uses nurse practitioners and physician assistants for non-urgent illnesses and interventions. This helps the new nurse in practicing proper triage technique, in other words deciding which patients are priorities. This program runs 12 weeks and will teach you the ins and outs of staffing an ER. The program runs 12-hour shifts, working the nurses two to three days per week.
UCSF Medical Center
2211 Post Street, Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94115-3442
415-353-1670
Nursing.ucsfmedicalcenter.org - Seton is a group of hospitals offering Registered Nurse Residency in Emergency Departments all over Texas. Seton runs its program through the Versant group, following similar curriculum to many other hospitals. Running about 18-weeks, these programs are designed to help make you feel secure in the ER in the fastest possible way. The Core curriculum makes up 25% of the program and the other 75% is guided clinical experience, so you spend as much time in the hospital working in your specialty.
Seton Family of Hospitals
800-749-7624
seton.net - Mercy Hospital in Miami Florida offers a 14-week preceptor program in the Emergency Room twice a year. Affiliated with many different schools, this program is highly competitive, but allows for its graduates to find work almost anywhere after the program. The hospital request you make a two-year commitment to stay within the family of hospitals but offers you the hands on experience you need to work in an Emergency Room anywhere in the country. This facility will also help Licensed Practical Nurses become RN's as well as Associate Degree RN's to transition into BS degrees. This is an added perk of the program.
Mercy Hospital
3663 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33133
305-854-4400
jobs.mercymiami.org
