RN New Grad (Days) - ICU
Oklahoma State University Medical Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Individuals within this job classification are accountable for assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting care activities in accordance with OSUMC standards in order to deliver efficient, effective and quality patient care. Oklahoma State University Medical Center is hiring for its own floors, with no agency in between.
- Eligibility
- Sign-on bonus
Posted Oct 1 · New grads welcomed
- Shift and hours
- Days RN New Grad (Days) - ICU
- Unit and setting
- ICU · Hospital RN New Grad (Days) - ICU
- License
- RN licenseOK RN License
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed RN New Grad (Days) - ICU
- License
- OK RN License Check your license
- Education
- 2 years/Associate Degree Education: 2 years/Associate Degree
- Experience
- Less than one year Experience: Less than one year
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.
What it pays
- Sign-on bonus
- $15,000
- Bonus
- up to $15,000 SIGN-ON BONUS UP TO $15,000!
Benefits
- Sign-on bonus
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting care activities
- Day to day
- assess data reflective of patient status and interpret information for age-specific needs
- Day to day
- plan for provision of patient care including developing, modifying, and implementing the plan of care
The workplace
The work we can name is an ICU or PCU RN assignment that floats to Tele. You would be on 12-hour nights from 7p to 7a, and the posting said start ASAP. One posting put the weekly rate at $1,915…
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range, differentials, and sign-on bonus repayment terms?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
Your fit
On your path
ICU / Critical Care has an opening for new graduates. This employer welcomes new graduates for this role. See the posting’s qualifications and orientation details.
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Sign-on bonus up to $15,000!
Individuals within this job classification are accountable for assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting care activities in accordance with OSUMC standards in order to deliver efficient, effective and quality patient care. The Registered Nurse (RN) must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on the assigned unit. This individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status, interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs.
The RN is to plan for the provision of patient care including the development, modification and implementation of the plan of care in accordance with OSUMC standards in order to deliver efficient, effective and quality patient care as described in the Patient Care policies and procedures. He/she is expected to adhere to and abide by the rules and regulations set forth by the Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act.
Qualifications
Education
2 years/Associate Degree
License/Certification
OK RN License BLS
Experience
Less than one year
What's around it?
Tulsa, OKFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 11% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,052/mo
- Household income
- $59,838/yr, all local households, not nurse pay