Registered Nurse - Full Time
Gardiner, Maine
Role: Registered Nurse providing compassionate, evidence-based care on inpatient units.
- Unit and setting
- inpatient units · HospitalRole: Registered Nurse providing compassionate, evidence-based care on inpatient units.
- License
- RN license Qualifications & Skills: Nursing license required; new grads supported with structured orientation, preceptorship, and mentoring.nursing license
- Term
- Permanent Registered Nurse - Full TimeFull-time
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed new grads supported with structured orientation, preceptorship, and mentoring.
- License
- nursing license Qualifications & Skills: Nursing license required; new grads supported with structured orientation, preceptorship, and mentoring.
- Also asks
- strong clinical skills Strong clinical skills, safety awareness, and commitment to quality care are essential.
- Also asks
- safety awareness
- Also asks
- commitment to quality 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 residencies4–6 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 jobs2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questionsAround 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
- Day to day
- conduct patient assessments Responsibilities: Conduct patient assessments, develop care plans, administer medications, coordinate with interdisciplinary teams, and educate patients and families.
- Day to day
- develop care plans
- Day to day
- administer medications
- Day to day
- coordinate with interdisciplinary teams
- Day to day
- educate patients and families
- Day to day
- uphold safety and quality standards Key Duties: Uphold safety and quality standards, contribute to a collaborative environment, and focus on community health and optimal patient outcomes.
- Day to day
- contribute to a collaborative environment
- Day to day
- focus on community health and optimal patient outcomes
Support on this unit
The posting does not state the assignment size, and nothing published names it for this unit.
- Orientation
- Preceptorship program
- Your preceptor
- A preceptor is assigned to you
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?
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Your fit
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Role: Registered Nurse providing compassionate, evidence-based care on inpatient units.
Responsibilities
Conduct patient assessments, develop care plans, administer medications, coordinate with interdisciplinary teams, and educate patients and families.
Qualifications & Skills
Nursing license required; new grads supported with structured orientation, preceptorship, and mentoring. Strong clinical skills, safety awareness, and commitment to quality care are essential.
Key
Duties
Uphold safety and quality standards, contribute to a collaborative environment, and focus on community health and optimal patient outcomes.
What's around it?
Gardiner, MEFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 3% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,113/mo
- Household income
- $71,782/yr, all local households, not nurse pay