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Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™
St. Joseph’s Health is proud to offer a program to help new nurses successfully transition into clinical practice. We care about you and are committed to empower you to successfully navigate your professional nursing journey. We have partnered with the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ to provide resources to help our new nurses (RN Residents) gain confidence and increase competence during this year long program. Your well-being as a new nurse is enhanced through hands-on training and processing clinical experiences.
As an RN Resident at St. Joseph’s Health, you will receive mentoring from an experienced nurse, build relationships with peers and participate in engaging learning experiences in a supportive environment. The monthly interactive sessions using evidence-based curriculum will increase your ability to:
- Use effective decision-making skills
- Provide clinical nursing leadership when administering care
- Incorporate research-based evidence into practice
- Strengthen professional commitment to nursing
- Formulate an individualized professional development plan
There is one application that needs to be completed to the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program.” Every graduate nurse or RN with less than one-year experience (hired as RN Residents) will be enrolled based on hire date. We look forward to providing you the support and encouragement you need as you transition into the nurse you have always wanted to be.
For more information related to Talent Acquisition, please contact Becky Baroody at 315-214-6942 or e-mail Becky.Baroody@sjhsyr.org. For more information related to the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™, please contact Nichole Covert, 315-726-7984 or email nurseresidencyprogram@sjhsyr.org
Qualifications
- Committed to full-time employment
- Graduate of an accredited nursing school within 12 months before starting date of the Nurse Residency Program
- Entering first professional Registered Nurse role
- Passed National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)
- New York State Licensed Registered Nurse
Why St. Joseph’s Health?
St. Joseph’s Health offers a rewarding experience due to its strong focus on professional growth, a supportive and family-like atmosphere, and a commitment to patient care and community well-being. The organization emphasizes career advancement, work-life balance, and provides resources and support to help employees thrive both personally and professionally.
- Opportunities for Professional Growth
- A Supportive and Family-Like Atmosphere:
- Commitment to Patient Care
- Focus on Work-Life Balance
- Recognition and Rewards
- Health and life insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Short- and long-term disability
Julie Moore, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN Chief Nursing Officer
Welcome! We are excited that you are considering starting your nursing journey at St. Joseph’s Health in our Nurse Residency Program (NRP). Our 12-month NRP will provide you with skills, knowledge, critical thinking, and decision making, and support your transition seamlessly into the nursing profession. Here at St. Joseph’s, we take pride in cultivating a culture of safety, teamwork, and continuous learning. You’ll be supported by mentors and leaders who are deeply invested in your success—because your success is our success. You are the future of nursing, and we are committed to empowering you every step of the way. I am very proud of the high-quality care that St. Joseph's Health nurses provide to our patients and their families each day. Thank you for choosing to start your journey with us. I can’t wait to see the impact you will have.
Gina Bradley, DNP, RN, CNE Director of Professional Development
It’s a true pleasure to welcome each of you to our organization and, more importantly, to the start of your professional nursing journey. As new nurses entering the profession, you are stepping into a field that is both challenging and incredibly rewarding. Our Nurse Residency Program is designed to support you through this transition—providing not only the clinical tools and training you need, but also the confidence, mentorship, and professional foundation that will shape the rest of your career. Throughout this program, you will have access to resources, educators, and clinical leaders who are here to invest in you. Take every opportunity to ask questions, reflect on your experiences, and embrace the journey ahead. Welcome to St. Joseph’s. We’re proud to walk this path with you—and excited to see the nurses and leaders you will become.
Nichole Covert, BSN, RN, CMSRN Nurse Residency Program Coordinator
Welcome to the St. Joseph’s Health Nurse Residency Program! We are so excited to have you join our team as you begin your journey into professional nursing. This is a meaningful time in your career, and we’re honored to support you every step of the way. Starting your career at St. Joseph’s Health is more than just a job—it’s a chance to grow in an environment built on a legacy of compassionate care, clinical excellence, and strong values. You’ll be part of a mission-driven organization where patients come first and nurses are respected, empowered, and supported. St. Joseph’s Health is an excellent place to begin your nursing journey because:
- You’ll be surrounded by supportive colleagues and educators who are dedicated to your success.
- You’ll participate in a comprehensive nurse residency program that bridges the gap from school to practice with simulation, mentorship, and professional development.
- You’ll care for a diverse patient population in a hospital system known for its deep community roots and commitment to service.
- You’ll gain real-world clinical experience and develop critical thinking in a safe, structured environment that encourages learning and collaboration.
- You’ll be part of a community that values you not just as a nurse—but as a person.
Throughout your residency, you’ll build confidence, develop strong clinical reasoning, and form connections that will last your entire career. We know this transition can be both exciting and challenging, and you are not alone. Our team is here to help you succeed and grow into the nurse you’ve worked so hard to become. Welcome to St. Joseph’s Health. We’re proud to walk beside you as you take your first steps into professional practice.
Meet the Educators
Deborah Hopkins, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, CNE ret, CV-BC, Gero -BC, MedSurg-BC, NPD-BC
AHA Coordinator, Global Educator
Cat Prouty MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CNEcl
Manager of Professional Development
Gretchen Bridendolph MSN, RN
Cardiac Institute Educator
Wendy Briscoe, BSN, RN
Educator for Behavioral Health Inpatient and Emergency Units
Allison Cooney MSN, RN
Educator for Medical-Surgical Inpatient Units
Emily Houghmaster, MSN, RN, CCRN
Educator for Medical-Surgical Inpatient Units
Tracy Long, MSN, RN, ONCC
Global Educator and Oncology Unit Educator
Mary Pushlar MSN, RN, WOCN
Resource Pool and Observation Educator
Elizabeth Quill, BSN, RN
Global Educator
Maria Rall, BSN, RN, CMSRN
Global Educator, Off shift support
Kati Roe, MSN, RN, RNC-OB
Educator for Maternal and Infant Services
Andrea Trout, BSN, RN, CMSRN
Global educator and Surgical Services Liaison
Our clinical educators partner with new nurses from day one—whether through structured residency programming, individualized onboarding, or bedside coaching—to help them grow into confident, compassionate professionals.
Schedule for 2026
February-April Start
Open House: 9/10/25 2:30-4:30pm in Defuria/L100A
Application Period: 9/10/25-9/24/25
Interviews: 10/13/25-10/17/25
Offers: 10/30/25
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- February Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 2/18/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 2/23/26-2/27/26
- March Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 3/4/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 3/9/26-3/13/26
- April Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 4/15/26 1:30pm-2:30pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 4/20/26-4/24/26
- February Start Date
July-September Start
Open House: 2/3/26 2:00-4:30pm in Defuria/L100A
Application Period: 2/2/26-2/15/26
Interviews: 3/2/26-3/6/26
Offers: 3/31/26
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- July Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 7/8/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 7/13/26-7/17/26
- August Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 8/5/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 8/10/26-8/14/26
- September Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 9/16/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 9/21/26-9/25/26
- July Start Date
October-November Start
Open House: 6/16/26 5:00-7:00pm in Defuria/L100A
Application Period: Rolling Applications
Interviews: Rolling Interviews
Offers: Rolling Offers
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- October Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 10/14/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 10/19/26-10/23/26
- November Start Date
- Mixer “Meet & Greet”: 11/11/26 1pm-2pm in Defuria
- Orientation week: 11/16/26-11/20/26
- October Start Date
1-Year Breakdown
Weeks 1 - 3
- Hospital Onboarding and Orientation
- General Nursing Orientation
- Nurse Residency Orientation
- Note: Days will typically be 7 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- EPIC Training
Months 1 - 6 After Orientation:
- Follow preceptor schedule on unit
- Shifts are based on unit needs (day, night, or day/night shift rotations).
- Complete unit/division-specific education/certification course (Varies by unit)
- Attend monthly Nurse Residency cohort classes
Months 7 - 12
- Continue working on your floor/unit
- Attend monthly Nurse Residency cohort classes
- Complete Evidence-Based Practice project
- Graduate Nurse Residency and Present Evidence-Based Practice Project
After Residency
- Mentor in Nurse Residency Program
- Advance professionally as a preceptor
- Advanced degrees, and/or certifications
Interested?
Fill out the form below and someone from our talent acquisition team will contact you.
Tracks: Explore the different pathways we offer.
Behavioral Health
- Up to 30 beds
- Inpatient Behavioral Health
- Provides care for adults over 18 yr
- Provides care for patients in mental health crisis
- Provides care to patients with substance abuse disorder
- Up to 9 observational beds
- Mobile Crisis Outreach services
- Comprehensive psychiatric emergency room
- Provides care for patients of all ages
- Clinical team of nurses and mental health professionals
Critical Care
- Up to 15 beds
- Intermediate level of care
- (MSICU step-down)
- Sepsis, DKA, complex drips
- Advanced modalities
- Bedside peritoneal dialysis
- Ventilator capacity
- Up to 20 beds
- Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- Critical medical-surgical patients
- Post-surgery
- Invasive line monitoring
- Previous Beacon Award recipient
- No clinical groups
- Up to 20 beds
- Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
- Cardiac surgery: open heart
- Vascular surgery
- ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
- Previous Beacon Award recipient
- No clinical groups
- Up to 36 tower beds
- Cardiac step-down unit
- Cardiac surgery: pre/post open heart
- Vascular surgery: pre/post
- Telemetry monitoring
- Ventilator capacity
- Bedside peritoneal dialysis
- Up to 36 tower beds
- Cardiac step-down unit
- Cardiac procedures: pre/post
- Designated Stroke Unit
- Telemetry monitoring
- Bedside peritoneal dialysis
- 40 bed unit
- 32 prep and recovery beds
- 8 beds that double as PACU beds for anesthesia patients
- Prep and recovery for procedural patients
- Cardiac catheterization lab
- Electrophysiology lab
- Interventional radiology
- Telemetry monitoring
- Primary nursing model
Emergency Services
- 4-zoned units consisting of ranging bed capacities
- Triage zone
- Fast-tracked zone
- Cardiac arrest, trauma, etc.
- Heart Failure and previously Chest Pain Center Accreditation
- Accredited Stroke Center Emergency Department
- 15 bed Unit.
- Observation status patients (48-hour admissions).
- Generalized Medical-Surgical population.
- Primary Nursing Model.
- Telemetry monitoring.
- Primary Stroke Center accredited through DNV and NYS.
- BLS/ACLS required for all RNs.
- Phlebotomy draws and IV placements- on the job training.
Medical Surgical
- Up to 36 beds
- Generalized medical-surgical
- Telemetry monitoring
- Hospitalist coverage
- Ventilator capacity
- Up to 36 Beds
- Generalized Medical-Surgical
- Telemetry Monitoring
- Ventilator Capacity
- Attending/Resident Coverage
- Up to 36 beds
- Sepsis step-down unit
- Generalized medical-surgical
- Telemetry monitoring
- Hospitalist coverage
- Ventilator capacity
<ul>
<li>Up to 18 beds</li>
<li>Urology</li>
<li>Renal</li>
<li>Colorectal</li>
<li>General surgery</li>
<li>Telemetry monitoring</li>
<li>Bedside peritoneal dialysis</li>
</ul>
- Up to 15 beds private rooms
- Oncology
- Palliative care
- Telemetry monitoring
- Drains, wounds
- Chemotherapy
- Up to 49 beds
- 4-1: up to 34 beds | •non-telemetry
- 4-2: up to 15 beds | •Telemetry monitoring
- Orthopedic service line
- Elective surgery (total joint, fracture)
- DNV Certified Center of Excellence for hip/knee/shoulder/spine
Resource Pool
- Trains to all inpatient med/surg/tele units
- Provides team-based care to all admitted patients with a variety of medical conditions, surgical and post-surgical and mental health needs.
- Assigned to unit with nursing need by CMC HUB in real time.
Surgical Services
- 15 Operating Rooms
- Cardiac surgeries
- Thoracic and vascular
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopedics
- Robotic surgeries
- General surgery
- GYN, GU, bariatric
- Post anesthesia care unit
- Surgical prep area, immediate phase 1 recovery, and phase 2 recovery
- 1:1 same-day surgery
- Regional blocks
- ECT therapy
- Pacemaker placements
- More than 5,000 procedures a year
- Endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, EUS, esophageal motility studies, PED placement
- Conscious sedation
Track Currently Full.
Women and Fetal Services
- 6 OB emergency beds and 3 pre-op/recovery beds
- Labor and delivery unit
- Includes birthplace
- Antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care
- Cesarean sections
- Up to 14 beds
- Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery
- Premature and/or critically ill newborns
- Attend all emergency and high-risk births
Frequently Asked Questions
*Please refer to schedule found here.
You must submit an application during the open application acceptance time frame.
Select application. Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | Fall 2026
The St. Joseph’s Health Nurse Residency Program accepts nurse graduate students in areas including Medical-Surgical, Critical Care, Emergency Services, Women’s Services, Perioperative Services, Procedural Services, Ambulatory Care and Behavioral Health.
The St. Joseph’s Health Nurse Residency Program is a 12-month program planned to support RN residents transitioning into their first professional nursing role. You will receive a weeklong nurse resident orientation, then complete monthly seminars that are 4 hours long. There is a graduation at the end of the program.
Your application will be reviewed to ensure that the basic qualifications are met. If you meet the qualifications, you will be contacted by a talent acquisition recruiter to discuss the program and book onsite interviews.
If you are not selected to move forward, you will be notified. We will keep your information on file for 90 days, should our needs change.
You can email your questions to nurseresidencyprogram@sjhsyr.org
When you submit your application, it will ask you to include a resume and a cover letter (optional: nursing program diploma).
Nursing unit schedules vary and largely depend on the needs of the unit/division. The typical workweek is 3 12-hour shifts. The nurse residency program will include a weeklong orientation and 4-hour monthly seminars from 0700-1100.
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