Evangelical Community Hospital Graduates Nurse Residency Program Class, March 2024

Pictured from left to right: Andrew Virgo, RN, Acute Care Unit; Krista Raymundo, RN, Acute Care Unit; Allyson Williams, RN, Inpatient Orthopaedic Unit; Trudy Estep, RN, Inpatient Orthopaedic Unit; Angela Harvey, RN, Acute Care Unit; Callie Fish, LPN, Emergency Department; Tanner Ebright, RN, Emergency Department; and Madison Styers, LPN, Emergency Department.

Evangelical Community Hospital’s Nurse Residency program is designed specifically for newly graduated nurses (LPNs or RNs with less than one year of experience) and those nurses who are new to hospital-based care. The most recent class has graduated from the program.

The Residency Program takes the skills learned during nursing school and softens the transition from graduate nurse to practicing nurse, lessening the stress of suddenly being in a direct-care environment with more experienced nurses. At the end of the program, participants should feel like they’ve moved from being a novice in the position to being an advanced beginner and assured the skills they are using maintain Evangelical standards of care.

Led by nurse educators and different clinical professionals from Evangelical, the Nurse Residency program helps with soft skills like effective communication with both patients and other staff as well as instruction on how to deal with difficult health conversations for patients and their loved ones. In addition, the curriculum includes simulations, online instruction, case studies, scenarios, as well as hands-on instruction on things like medication passes, proper bedside reporting, wound care, pain management, and more.