New Graduate Nurse – RN Residency – All Specialties
Grovetown, Georgia
This role is for a New Graduate RN Resident participating in a 12-month Nurse Residency Program designed to support recent nursing graduates with less than 6 months of experience in transitioning to professional practice.
Posted Oct 3 · New grads welcomed
- Unit and setting
- Home Health
- License
- RN license current RN licensure
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed, 12-month residency
- License
- current RN licensure
- Certification
- BLS required
- Experience
- less than one year of experience
- Also asks
- basic computer skills
- Also asks
- excellent communication
- Also asks
- strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills
- Also asks
- commitment to safety, quality, and organizational policies Candidates must demonstrate a commitment to safety, quality, and organizational policies, with a focus on delivering compassionate, patient-centered care.
Your six-month RN application plan
Start about six months before graduation. Some programs open earlier; use each employer’s application dates.
6 months before
Shortlist units
Check application windows. Gather clinical experience, references and your expected graduation date.
Find residencies →4–6 months before
Apply as windows open
Apply before graduation when the program allows it. Keep the cohort date and license deadline with each application.
Explore new grad jobs →2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questions →Around graduation
Confirm your start
Coordinate NCLEX, the required license and your start date. Get relocation and repayment terms in writing.
Plan your license →
Why start this early?
Advocate describes a 6–9 month application runway for several regional RN programs. These milestones are a planning guide, not deadlines for every employer. See program calendars.
The role and schedule
- Precepting
- You would precept other nurses
- Day to day
- individualized, high-quality patient care with an interdisciplinary team
- Day to day
- performing the nursing process Key duties involve performing the nursing process , coordinating care, practicing culturally competent care, and engaging families as care partners.
- Day to day
- coordinating care
- Day to day
- practicing culturally competent care
- Day to day
- engaging families as care partners
- Day to day
- participating in performance improvement activities
- Day to day
- supporting evidence-based research
Support on this unit
The posting does not state the assignment size, and nothing published names it for this unit.
- Orientation
- 12-month residency
The workplace
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What preceptor time and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
Your fit
Original listing
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This role is for a New Graduate RN Resident participating in a 12-month Nurse Residency Program designed to support recent nursing graduates with less than 6 months of experience in transitioning to professional practice.
Responsibilities include providing individualized, high-quality patient care in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, utilizing evidence-based practices, critical thinking, and adherence to professional standards.
Key duties involve performing the nursing process , coordinating care, practicing culturally competent care, and engaging families as care partners.
The role emphasizes teamwork, collaboration, and professional development , including serving as a preceptor or mentor, participating in performance improvement activities, and supporting evidence-based research.
Qualifications include current RN licensure (BLS required), basic computer skills , and excellent communication . Experience is less than one year; strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills are essential.
Candidates must demonstrate a commitment to safety, quality, and organizational policies, with a focus on delivering compassionate, patient-centered care.
What's around it?
Grovetown, GAFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 4% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,407/mo
- Household income
- $85,660/yr, all local households, not nurse pay