Nurse Residency Program Frankford, Torresdale, Bucks

Jefferson Bucks, Frankford, and Torresdale Hospitals offer an exciting opportunity to our newly graduated nurses. The Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ focuses on leadership, patient outcomes and professional role.

The Nurse Residency Program delivers a supportive environment resulting in better use of clinical decision making skills, enhanced leadership and improved incorporation of research-based evidence into practice.

As a Nurse Resident you will interact with Content Experts on a wide variety of clinically relevant topics to enhance and optimize the care you deliver. You will experience camaraderie with peers, partake in evidence-based research, and discover a world of lifelong learning that will let you flourish in your career choice and strengthen your commitment to the profession of nursing.

This program is a yearlong journey which aims to support the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation in providing a transition-to-practice program for the newly graduated nurse.

• As a Nurse Resident you will evolve through the Institute of Medicine’s Recommendation 3, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” This recommendation supports the completion of a residency program for a newly licensed nurse.
• Nurse Residents will enter the program during the orientation period. Throughout the orientation period the Nurse Resident is supported by the Clinical Preceptor.
• The length of the Residency Program is one year, with monthly four-hour sessions.
• Sessions are spent with content experts who explore a variety of clinically relevant topics.
• The Nurse Residency Program eases the transition to practice as a competent professional in the clinical environment.
• As a Nurse Resident, you will flourish in your career choice and strengthen your commitment to the profession of nursing.

• Integration into a cohort of peers
• Meeting Nurse Residents experiencing similar growth
• Content experts with up-to-the-minute patient information
• Nurse facilitators who guide you through the yearlong journey
• “Tales from the Bedside” reflective stories to support your transition to practice
• Participation in an evidence-based practice project
• Academic partnership with the Jefferson College of Nursing
• Graduation and presentation of EBP projects
• Peer for a Year – additional support after graduation

• It was adopted as the Pennsylvania state model for nurse residency development.
• The program is recognized by the Institute of Medicine and The Joint Commission.
• It’s served over 100,000 nurse residents to date.
• The program is trusted by more than 375 hospitals and health systems nationwide

Janice Gibson, MSN, RN, CCRN, PCCN
Coordinator of the Nurse Residency Program
215-710-3529

Jill Ziegler, MSN, RN, Nurse Educator
Nurse Residency Support Coordinator
215-710-3525