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Start, Support, Growth.

As a student or recent graduate, where you choose to launch your career can make all the difference. At Exempla Healthcare, we don't want you to ever feel lost or overwhelmed. We provide comprehensive orientation programs customized to each new graduate and why, in many cases, we pair new graduates with unit experienced preceptors to carefully nurture your experience and confidence. That's The Exempla Experience.

Campus RN Recruiting Contacts

Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
Heather Bower BowerH@exempla.org
Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital
Jim Ritchey ritcheyj@exempla.org

The Exempla Experience

Experiences
The Exempla Experience provides you with "career excellence" by offering you opportunities and pathways for growth, educational advancement, annual certification support, facility choices, and a wide range of patient care experiences. Its no wonder many of our recent graduates have made Exempla their "career home."

Partnerships
The Exempla Experience recognizes the key ingredients to building strong partnerships in healthcare: patients, families, community, physicians, and patient caregivers. We take the time to listen, communicate, learn, and educate our physician and clinical partners in order to ensure the best possible patient care is delivered. At each facility, you'll find a professional, strong family spirit within the unit and supporting staff, a spirit that encourages participation and builds stability.

RN New Grads
As a graduate Nurse with Exempla Healthcare, you will have a multitude of choices, both in terms of the full spectrum of specialties we have as well as our types of facilities-from a downtown teaching hospital to a community-based suburban hospital to a brand new state-of-the-art medical center.

Exempla's "Syllabus"
-What You As a New Nursing Graduate Can Expect

Each new grad has one week of classroom time as well as preceptor support for at least eight weeks. You have the option of hiring into a specific unit or rotating into different units, which could include Medical/Surgical or Critical Care Step-down.

Resources are available 24/7 to support you and provide the safety and security you need. These include:

  • Rapid Assessment Team
  • COR Zero team (average response time 1.5 minutes)
  • Physicians and house staff
  • Highly experienced shift supervisors and staff
  • 24/7 pharmacy and lab

Special new grad education programs are provided throughout the first year. Additional in-house programs are available such as:

  • Critical Care Course
  • Peri-Operative Nurse Internship (PONI)
  • Emergency Room Nursing Internship (ERNI)
  • L&D Nursing Internship
  • Computer classes available at no cost

Benefits
Moreover, you'll be rewarded with a great salary and excellent benefits!

  • Credit for years of experience in other medical roles
  • Generous shift differentials
  • Generous paid time-off (we value work/life balance)
  • Medical benefits are effective first day of month following date of hire

Education Programs
Exempla offers a variety of special new graduate education programs, designed to facilitate the transition from college as well as to provide a strong foundation for future professional growth.

We've also developed a comprehensive Education Assistance Program for both nursing and allied health professionals that include numerous scholarship opportunities and a generous Tuition Reimbursement program.

Educational Assistance Programs include:

  • Advanced Patient Care Skills Certification
  • Dependent Scholarships
  • Extern Work Study Program
  • Healthcare Scholarships
  • Nursing Scholarships
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • David A. Wollard Exempla Healthcare Nursing Scholarships

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