Nurse Fellowship Program
FIND YOUR
SPECIALTY.
TRANSITION
AND EXCEL.
FOCUS ON WHAT YOU LOVE. RECEIVE SUPPORT TO GROW YOUR SKILLS.
With our person-centered Nurse Fellowship Program, Kootenai Health can help you transition into a specialty unit and make career choices that best fit your talent, goals, and interests. Kootenai Health’s Nurse Fellowship Program is designed to make your transition into a specialty unit as smooth and efficient as possible by providing enhanced precepting, mentorship, and education to promote confidence, build knowledge, and ensure team member success.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Kootenai Health Nurse Fellowship Program provides an innovative, person-centered support structure to gain evidence-based practice experience and standardization of knowledge and skills to ensure our nurses are confidently prepared, supported, and engaged in their new work environments. During the program, nurse fellows are hired into paid, fully benefitted, full-time (36-40 hours/pay period) staff nurse positions and selected to join specific teams, including:
- Critical Care
- CVOR
- Peri-op 101
- Emergency Department
- Invasive Cardiovascular Labs
(Cardiac Cath Lab & Electrophysiology Lab) - Labor and Delivery
Kootenai Health is committed to providing nurse fellows with the teaching, training, mentoring, and experience needed for a successful career in a new practice setting. Our 6-12-month program (depending on specialty) offers:
- Socialization and networking support
- Didactic, targeted teaching, and on-site simulation learning experiences, dependent on unit
- Supplemental activities to promote nursing professional development
- 24-hour access to a robust, interdisciplinary, on-site library
- Three to six months (unit specific) of direct bedside precepting support
- Mentor and leadership support
- A professional nursing culture and education environment consistent with the ANCC Magnet® designation, the national standard for nursing excellence in the United States
- Early leadership opportunities
To be accepted into the Nurse Fellowship Program, each applicant must:
- Be a professional nurse who has more than one year of hospital-based nursing experience.
- Be transitioning to a new specialty service line.
- Possess an active Idaho Registered Nurse license (before the start date).
For continued success in your role, Kootenai Health highly encourages the following:
- Full-time employment with Kootenai Health for 24 months following the completion of the Nurse Fellowship Program.
- Acquisition of a specialty certification in your nursing specialty (such as CCRN, CEN, CNOR) within 24 months of completing the program.
Application deadline & requirements:
- Submit a standard Kootenai Health online employment application for the desired fellowship.
- Complete the Kootenai Health reference process.
Specific department applications will be made available periodically depending on departmental openings.
Kootenai Health will strive to ensure your success as a nurse by providing you a robust orientation program, access to organizational development, and the support of a professional education team.
WHY APPLY FOR A NURSE FELLOWSHIP WITH KOOTENAI HEALTH
CONTACT US ABOUT THE NURSE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.
Kootenai Health
2003 Kootenai Health Way, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83814
Phone: 208-625-4620 | Email: careers@kh.org
Exceptional Awaits.
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