Graduate Nurse - Emergency Room Residency Program

Graduate Nurse - Emergency Room Residency Program

Apply to the Graduate Nurse – Emergency Room Residency Program at Waterbury Hospital. The program is hiring for Summer 2025 residency cohorts. Salary ranges from $61,340 to $100,870 annually.

Location:

Waterbury, CT.

• Competitive pay – generous differentials
• Educational Tuition Reimbursement and Student Loan Repayment options
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Paid Time Off (vacation/sick/holiday)
• Sign on bonuses
• Generous student loan forgiveness
• Defined Benefit Pension
• 401(k) retirement savings
• Elective benefits, including identity protection
• Clinical Ladders
• Free on-site parking

The Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department utilizes the nursing process, diagnoses, and treats human responses to actual or potential problems. The RN is accountable to the patient, family, and peers for the totality of work performed, ensuring the organization fulfills its mission of providing quality health care within the community. The population served includes adult and geriatric patients, with occasional adolescent cases.

Supervision is provided by the Manager, Clinical Operations, reporting up through Assistant Director and Director of Emergency Services.

• Develop and implement a plan of care and demonstrate leadership to ensure all patient/family needs are met. Monitor patients before, during, and after admission and/or procedures. Evaluate the plan of care and the patient’s responses: reassess and revise the plan based on changing needs and priorities.
• Set up and use all equipment needed for treatments.
• Act as a resource for aides and students for all procedures in the ED and on call.
• Demonstrate the skill and judgment necessary to implement physician orders, nursing interventions, and procedures as needed for patient care.
• Maintain up‑to‑date, accurate documentation of nursing care to ensure information integration for the health care team and maintain total quality care.
• Promote effective working relationships and work cooperatively as part of the department team to help the department meet its goals and objectives. Contribute to Quality Improvement activities and participate in the departmental Quality Improvement Program.
• Maintain professional development to stay current on advances in practice and provide state‑of‑the‑art treatment for the patient population served.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Waterbury Hospital offers new graduate nurses the opportunity to participate in a 12‑month supportive paid Nurse Residency Program designed to facilitate newly licensed nurses’ transition into clinical practice through support, resources, and mentorship. Graduates will work directly within a specialty area, receiving focused 1:1 training with a preceptor and classroom learning throughout the year. Each resident will develop and implement an evidence‑based teaching project.

• Every newly licensed RN (NCLEX completion with a valid CT RN license) with less than one year of experience.
• Program enrollment is based on hire date (summer cohorts are automatically enrolled).

• Education:
  
  Graduate of an accredited nursing program. Senior nursing students are encouraged to apply before graduation.
• Experience:
  
  New RN graduate or newly licensed RN.
• License & Certification:
  Active State of CT RN license. New graduates may start employment once they successfully pass the NCLEX. Once the active CT RN license is confirmed, the new graduate will be placed into the Nurse Residency.
• BCLS required; ACLS/TNCC, ENPC or PALS preferred.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to work in a time‑oriented environment, including exposure to blood‑borne pathogens, physical requirements; lifting and pulling patients, pushing stretchers, standing, and walking for extended periods while wearing a lead apron.
• Ability to adapt to a high‑stress chaotic work environment.
• Ability to taskand time manage.
• Ability to utilize critical thinking skills.
• Ability to interact with patients with tact and confidentiality.
• Must have basic computer skills and the ability to access the internet and other programs applicable to Waterbury Hospital procedures.
• Perform automated functions that fall within job responsibilities.