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Critical Care Residency
This six-week class is designed to develop the critical thinking and physical skills needed to be a competent critical care nurse. The course utilizes the Essentials of Critical Care Orientation, or ECCO, which is an exciting web-based program offering 64 contact hours of critical care nursing education. It is followed with a four to six week preceptorship, which allows the nurse to develop newly learned skills, and fosters independent performance through our individualized mentoring. Upon successful completion of this program, nurses transition into a staff role and rotate through Medical Intensive Care, Surgical Intensive Care, Trauma Intensive Care and Neuro. Intensive Care.

Medical-Surgical Residency
The Med-Surg Residency is a three-week program, which offers lecture and preceptorship in a systems-based format focusing on assessment, intervention and evaluation of the medical-surgical patient. Course content includes skills lab, cardiac services, neurology, dysrhythmia interpretation and more. Upon completion of the program, nurses transition into a full-time position in one of our medical-surgical units.

Maternal-Child Residency
The six-week course content includes, Mother-Baby care, high-risk and low-risk labor and delivery care, neonatal care and pediatrics. Residents are rotated into the medical surgical residency class based on their individual educational needs. Educational content is presented by our Women's and Children's Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Educator and our Certified Lactation Specialist. Orientees are then assigned unit specific preceptors to finalize their training before transitioning into a staff position in one of our Maternal Child Departments. Nurses have the opportunity to cross-train and develop skills in all aspects women's and children's health.

Perioperative Nurse Residency Program
TMF offers a seven-month residency program for the new Graduate Nurse or the experienced Registered Nurse who is hired for a surgery staff nurse position. The resident completes concentrated didactic, written tests, mock labs, and return demonstrations followed by clinical rotations with preceptors into all surgical specialties, on-call, and all shifts inclusive of weekends and nights. Clinical rotations to PreOp, Sterile Processing, PACU, and PASS are also provided.  Completion of the AORN Perioperative 101 final exam provides the nurse with 83 contact hours and a free one-year AORN membership, including the AORN journal, newsletters, and other membership benefits.

If you are interested in professional growth and development in your nursing career, Trinity Mother Frances has what you need. For more information contact our Human Resources office at 1-800-443-3849.

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