Innovative Nursing Programs

Choosing a career as a nursing professional at Norton Healthcare provides a wide variety of options to promote a healthy work/life balance.

As a nurse, you are always striving to be the best you can be, and we make it easy for you. We invest a lot in our nurses, with an aim to expand your abilities and keep you growing in your career.

Our programs include:

• Norton Clinical Agency
• Encompass Nurse Residency Program
• Student Nurse Apprenticeship Program

Norton Clinical Agency

At Norton Clinical Agency, you will find competitive pay, scheduling flexibility and a supportive staffing team. Norton Clinical Agency is currently recruiting qualified registered nurses and patient care associates looking for PRN (as needed) scheduling options. Norton Clinical Agency is currently hiring for night shift at Norton Healthcare’s adult-service hospitals.

How Norton Clinical Agency invests in you:

• Competitive pay
• Bonuses based on hours worked
• Flexible scheduling and work commitments
• Variety of benefits

While working as a Norton Clinical Agency employee, you are eligible for benefits, including retirement matches, seniority at Norton Healthcare, career development courses offered at no charge and other perks. Other benefits include access to our N Good Health program and employee discount program and opportunities for free continuing education credits.

If you have an active Kentucky nursing license and at least one year of experience, a Norton Clinical Agency staff person would love to discuss this opportunity to provide compassionate and dedicated nursing care within our health care system.

For more information, call (800) 833-7975 or email recruitment@nortonhealthcare.org.

Encompass Nurse Residency Program

Transition to Practice Program for Nursing Graduates

Nurses today are increasingly challenged with complex patients and fast-paced environments. Norton Healthcare recognizes this challenge and understands that supporting new graduate nurses is essential. Norton Healthcare Institute for Education & Development created Encompass to support new graduate nurses during transition from the role of student to practicing nurse, helping them gain confidence and develop professional relationships in the process.

All new graduate nurses complete the Encompass program to support their transition to patient care with Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s.

Program Structure

• New graduate nurses join a residency cohort near the conclusion of unit orientation. Residency learning will build on nurses’ classroom didactic and clinical immersion experiences and meet newly discovered professional growth needs.
• Cohorts are made up of new graduate nurses with similar start dates and grouped by facility to customize learning.
• Monthly workshops provide conceptual and hands-on learning, targeted to meet new graduates’ needs throughout their first year of practice.
• Learning is designed to help new graduate nurses gain confidence and develop professional relationships.

Workshop Format

• Workshops provide opportunities to explore personal, professional and career growth opportunities, with an emphasis on critical thinking skills, leadership abilities, communication skills, patient safety and quality outcomes, evidence-based practice, and career development.
• Workshops allow for reflection on experiences and collaboration with other disciplines throughout the facility. Each workshop will include debriefing time for residents to talk about their experiences with their peers and facility leadership teams.
• Workshops are intended to provide a voice for new graduate nurses and promote feelings of value, belonging and community.

For more information, contact NurseResidency@nortonhealthcare.org.

Student Nurse Apprenticeship Program

Norton Healthcare’s Student Nurse Apprenticeship Program (SNAP) is a three-tiered culture, clinical, confidence model of intentional investment in student nurses. SNAP is a paid apprenticeship providing elevated educational and clinical experiences for a 12- to 18-month period in preparation for a registered nurse role after graduation. SNAP reinforces nursing education and patient safety, awareness of the professional nurse role, and an appreciation of organizational structures and operations within a leading health care setting.

Applications are open from Aug. 20 to Oct. 1. Program eligibility is based on anticipated graduation date from nursing school. To discuss this opportunity, email SNAP@nortonhealthcare.org.