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Are you a newly graduated registered nurse or nurse practitioner ready to take your knowledge and skills to the next level? As a nurse resident at VA Hudson Valley Healthcare System, you will transition from the classroom to hands-on care alongside experienced professionals in multiple clinical settings. Much like a fellowship, the year long nurse residency provides you with significant work experience, training and skill development opportunities not typically available in entry-level nursing and nurse practitioner positions.
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Post baccalaureate nurse residency

The mission of the VA Hudson Valley Post Baccalaureate- Registered Nurse Residency (PB-RNR) is to provide the nurse resident with experiential training focused on the care and quality of life of the rural geriatric Veteran. In addition, the PB-RNR is designed to support the professional development and leadership skills of the entry-level, advanced beginner nurse resident to a competent, confident, professional nurse providing safe, high-quality care.

Structure

The 12- months program will consist of 3 phases.

Phase I: (0-to 3 months) - hospital and nursing orientation

Phase II: (4- to 9 months) - nursing leadership and professional development

Phase III: (10- to 12 months )– synthesis, assessment, completion of evidence-based project, and program evaluation

Residents will then complete a 4-week elective of the resident's choice and finalize their evidence-based project

Upon successful completion of the residency, the registered nurse will:

  • Transition from entry-level to advanced beginner, advanced beginner nurse to competent professional nurse, levels defined by Benner's "novice to expert" theory.
  • Develop effective decision-making skills related to clinical judgment and performance.
  • Provide clinical leadership at the point of patient care.
  • Strengthen commitment to nursing as a professional career choice.
  • Formulate an individual career plan demonstrating a life-long commitment to professional nursing (Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 2008).
  • Receive a residency completion certificate.

Eligibility

All of the following must be true. You are:

  • A U.S. citizen and graduate
  • of a CCNE or ACEN accredited program with a BSN or MSN applying for their first role as a registered nurse, and
  • Are less than 1 year since graduation, and 
  • Are proficient in written and spoken English, and 
  • Have completed a background and security investigation, and
  • Have passed a pre-employment medical exam with random drug test, and
  • Have a current unrestricted registered nurse license or NCLEX scheduled before July 30, 2022, and
  • Agree to complete 366 days of training beginning August 30, 2022

Benefits

  • Salary paid every 2 weeks
  • Health and life insurance
  • FICA payments
  • All federal holidays
  • Accrual of 4 hours of annual leave and 4 Hours of sick leave per pay period (every 2 weeks)
  • Housing is possible

Contact us

Dr. Angela Northrup, PhD, RN, FNP

Director, Registered Nurse Transition to Practice Program

VA Hudson Valley Health Care System  

Email: Angela.Northrup@va.gov

Phone:  (845)-831-2000 ext. 216306

FDR campus: 2094 Albany Post Road. | Montrose, NY 10548

Castle Point campus: 41 Castle Point Road. | Wappingers Falls, NY 12590

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Residency Program

The mission of the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Residency  is to provide outstanding primary healthcare to our Veterans. The residency is comprised of the strengths of an advanced practice nursing and community health model to provide a comprehensive and effective training in a rural and semirural environment.

The 12-month residency program will provide intensive training in interdisciplinary care for Veterans.

It includes precepted and independent continuity of patient care sessions, rotations in specialty care, acute care, mental health, and provided elective time.

The program also includes a scholarly evidence-based activity, working directly with Quality Management Service to perform a quality improvement project

Upon successful completion of the program, you will be able to:

  • Utilize evidence-based practice to care for complex, diverse Veteran populations across the life span.
  • Provide clinical continuity that will support sustained relationships and shared decision-making with patients and families while providing Veteran-centered care.
  • Have transitioned from a novice provider to proficient clinician.
  • Receive a residency completion certificate.

Eligibility

All of the following must be true. You:

  • Are a U.S. citizen who graduated from a master's or doctoral
  • nurse practitioner program accredited by CCNE or ACEN, and
  • Have full and current national board certification as a family or adult nurse practitioner from a VA-approved certifying body, and 
  • current unrestricted registered nurse and nurse practitioner license, and 
  • Are proficient in written and spoken English, and 
  • Completed a background and security investigation, and a pre-employment medical exam, with a random drug test, and 
  • Agree to complete 366 days of training

Benefits

  • Health and life insurance
  • Stipend paid every 2 weeks
  • FICA payments
  • All federal Holidays
  • Accrual of 4 hours of annual leave and 4 hours of sick leave per pay period (every 2 weeks)
  • Housing is possible

Contact us

Kathleen Letscher, FNP-C Program director, PC-NPR

VA Hudson Valley Health care System

Phone: 845-452-5151

Email: kathleen.letscher@va.gov

Poughkeepsie CBOC, 488 Freedom Plains Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

FDR campus: 2094 Albany Post Road. Montrose, NY 10548

Castle Point campus: 41 Castle Point Road. | Wappingers Falls, NY 12590