Setting New Grad Nurses on the Path to Success

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From day one through week thirteen, your new grad nurse will be paired with one of our professionally trained preceptors for a three-phase orientation process designed for their success. The new grad may only progress through each phase after meeting specific safety requirements in order to ensure they are practicing safely before they practice independently. Each phase of the program comes with a new teaching style, new milestones, and phase-specific tools that will allow for increasingly more independence as the new grad is able to show that safety standards are consistently met.

Those of us who have experienced the hospital setting from a patient's perspective know that a great nurse is caring, organized, and makes us feel safe. Cultivating Care's orientation program was built with the goal of producing great nurses by teaching our three pillars of safe nursing practice: critical thinking, time management, and interpersonal skills. Our preceptors have access to tools that will develop each of these pillars in the new grad nurse at each phase of the orientation process, as well as tools to evaluate, track, and report on their progress as they move toward completion of the program.

Cultivating Care's goal is to produce new nurses that are an asset to their unit, not a liability. We want your new grads to start their career with all the tools they need to succeed in nursing, including knowing when and how they should ask for help. In order to provide the best learning environment for your new grad nurses, we require a high level of professionalism from our employees. We strive to produce a safe and open learning environment where the new grad nurse is not afraid to share ideas and concerns.