New Grad RN - Transition to Practice Program (October 2026

About Children's Minnesota

Children's Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and not-for-profit system since 1924, Children's Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two free-standing hospitals, nine primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites.

As The Kids Experts in our region, Children's Minnesota is regularly ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top children's hospital. Find us on Facebook @childrensminnesota or on Twitter and Instagram ase visit childrensMN.org.

Children's Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and not-for-profit system since 1924, Children's Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two free-standing hospitals, nine primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites.

As The Kids Experts in our region, Children's Minnesota is regularly ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top children's hospital. Please visit childrensMN.org. Positions will be within our Med Surg, Critical Care, Emergency Department, Operating Room, Neonatal Care or Float Team communities, and be located either on our Minneapolis or St. Paul campuses.

The New Graduate Training Program at Children's Minnesota combines didactic and precepted clinical experiences designed to transition new graduate RN's from academic to the professional nursing environment. It prepares new graduate RNs to coordinate and provide family-centered nursing care to infants, children and adolescents, utilizing the nursing process. It emphasizes accountability for professional practice, including independent nursing functions and delegated medical functions performed in collaboration with other health team members.

If you are hired into this program, your initial orientation will be day shifts, generally Monday through Friday, until you, your manager, preceptor, Clinical Educator, and Clinical Education Specialist agree that you are ready to move to the shift and schedule you were hired into. You will continue orientation on your hired shift and schedule, depending on your customized orientation plan and your progress toward orientation competency goals.

Positions will vary from 0.6 FTE to 0.9 FTE. In addition, shifts will vary from position to position.

• October Cohort
  
  Start Date:
  
  October 26,2026

• Interviews begin 6-8 weeks prior to the start of the program
• Offers are extended 3-5 weeks prior to the start of the program
• Graduating from an accredited Associate, BSN/BA or MSN/MA nursing program within 1 year from the start of the TTP cohort.
• Successful completion of MN nursing boards resulting in a MN RN license prior to the start of the program.
• Certified in Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Meet health requirements for employment at Children's
• An interest in working with children and families.

All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of an occupational health assessment, drug screen, background investigation, and compliance with the U.S. Government Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Children's Minnesota is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities to all applicants. EO M/F/Disability/Vet Employer.