Now accepting applications for the Summer/Fall 2026 Nurse Residency Program!
All Inpatient Units
Our Nurse Residency Program is designed for any recent RN graduates and nurses with less than one year of acute care experience. It will provide the best possible start for your nursing career. Including: a dynamic combination of classes, lab experiences, a preceptor unit-based orientation, as well as training in our Simulation Center.
We utilize state of the art human patient simulators, that will strengthen your assessment, critical thinking, and clinical skills, and help you become a safe, practicing, and confident Registered Nurse!
This is a full time, paid, comprehensive program, specifically designed to meet the unique needs of today’s new nurses. You can expect an orientation that focuses on the skills and knowledge base required for nursing in D-H’s academic, acute care environment.
The program incorporates a muti-faceted orientation process, which focuses on the skills and knowledge base required for nursing in our academic, high-tech, acute care environment. Our nurses have an opportunity to strengthen their assessment, critical thinking, communication and technical skills in a safe learning environment.
Multiple Start Dates Available to work best within your schedule!
The Nurse Residency Program emphasizes adult learning principles and promotes clinical and leadership skills during the transition from student nurse to acute care professional nurse.
Residency Activities/Benefits Include:
• Clinical orientation with a thoughtfully chosen preceptor• Simulation based exercises with our Patient Safety Training Program• Competency and skills assessment and verification• Professional Shadowing and immersion with Nursing Leaders, and specialty areas• Direct exposure to the many opportunities available to D-H Nurses• Information about the community D-H serves• Ongoing support for professional growth and development with Nursing Education
•Competitive pay and benefits, as well as relocation and professional supports!
Required Licensure/Certification Skills:
How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
