Nurse Residency Program

The Stanford Health Care Nurse Residency Program begins on Monday, August 18, 2025

Your nursing career deserves to start with the best foundation! To foster your growing talents, we invite you to consider the Stanford Health Care New Graduate Nurse Residency Program. Thoughtfully designed for highly motivated and committed new graduate nurses, this is a comprehensive one-year training program—providing over 350+ bedside care hours with an experienced nurse preceptor, supported with an additional 100 hours of clinical education, immersive training and unique “New Grad Seminar” workshops. Our rigorous Vizient driven curriculum, emphasizes the professional nurse role, leadership and patient outcomes and is guided by Watson Caring Science Theory.

Program Requirements:
1) Must be a graduate from an accredited ADN, BSN or MSN program. Accredited online programs included.

2) The official graduation transcript date no greater than 18 months from cohort hire/start date.

3) **NO EXCEPTIONS** - Must have a current California RN License that can be verified online via the California Board of Registered Nursing by no later than Friday July 11, 2025 .

4) Previous Work Experience - Must not exceed 6 months full time hours of paid RN work experience (equivalent to 1,040 hours)

5) BLS certification from the American Heart Association is required by start date.
ACLS certification from the American Heart Association is required by start date.

Available Units for August 18, 2025:
-Adult Emergency Department
-Pediatric Emergency Department
-Inpatient Medicine
-Inpatient Surgical
-Inpatient Oncology
-Inpatient Float Pool
- Operating Room
- Clinical Trials

Applicant Timeline / Next Steps:
Online applications will be accepted from Monday, March 24, 2025 until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 6th, 2025.

Must submit the following documents:

1) Cover Letter Required

2) Resume: Clinical Rotations/Preceptorship (required):
-Must include the location/site for clinical rotations/preceptorship
-Must include the number of clinical hours for each rotation/preceptorship
-If clinical rotation/preceptorship is in progress at time of application submission, please note “in progress.”

3) Work Experience (if applicable): Must provide job title, responsibilities, and time frame for employment

4) Volunteer Experience (if applicable):
-Must provide volunteer title, responsibilities and hours volunteered
-Must include name and contact information of individual/agency who supervised your volunteer activities.

5) Transcripts: Most recent transcripts (either Official or Unofficial Online Transcripts) - PLEASE UPLOAD TO YOUR APPLICATION UNDER ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS - DO NOT SEND ANY TO THE HOSPITAL OR HAVE THEM E-MAILED TO US. They MUST be uploaded to your application.

7) Online Application: Completion of electronic application

Thank you and good luck to you all!
Stanford Health Care RN Recruitment & New Grad RN Residency Teams
Contact: NewGradRN@stanfordhealthcare.org
Website: https://careers.stanfordhealthcare.org/us/en/nurse-residency-program