Registered Nurse New Grad Residency – March 2026 Start

If you are an existing employee of South Shore Health then please apply through the internal career site.

Requisition Number:

R-21095

Facility:

LOC0001 - 55 Fogg Road55 Fogg Road Weymouth, MA 02190

Department Name:

SSH Med Surg Admin

Status:

Full time

Budgeted Hours:

36

Shift:

Night (United States of America)

South Shore Health System offers a highly structured and intensive one-year long residency program for New Graduate RN’s twice per year. This highly sought after program is designed to support successful transition to clinical practice for the novice nurse (no prior RN working experience). We welcome complete applications from nurses who are committed to joining this magnet designated facility and providing the best quality of care to our community. Below is the timeline and instructions to successfully apply: (Internal Candidates please apply via the internal SSH portal)

Job Description

Please submit one PDF of the following documents:

• Resume: Please let us know your NCLEX status on your resume (Exam Date, Date Pending, RN#, etc..)

• Letter of Intent (Why Med/Surg at SSH?)

• One letter of recommendation
   

The program begins March 23, 2026. Residency members will work full time and participate in a variety of activities to support the transition including lectures, simulated scenarios and hands on skills training. This residency program is one-year long with classes occurring throughout the year. Nurses will be assigned a preceptor for the first 14 weeks and will transition to independent practice over the course of the program. The majority of class time will be during the first 14 week orientation.

Candidates are expected to complete the full 14 week orientation program in full with their cohort. Residency participants must be available to work 36-40 hours per week, and be available to work ANY SHIFT during their training. Schedules will include every other weekend rotation.  Upon completion, New Graduate nurses will be scheduled to work 36 hour Night shifts with every other weekend rotation. Our robust benefits are available to residency members on the first day of work.

Base Pay is $38.20

Off Shift Differentials: Weeknights $8/hour Weekend Nights $15/hour

Staff Nurse Responsibilities include:

1. Medication Administration
a. Demonstrates knowledge of and follows SSH policies and procedures for administering, transcribing, and recording medications.

b. Completes medication reconciliation process following SSH policy and procedure.

c. Demonstrates proper procedure for the documentation of narcotic withdrawal, administration, verifies count, wastes per policy and resolves narcotic discrepancy.

2. Plan of care/Documentation/Patient Family Centered Care/Patient Experience Develops, discusses, and communicates a prioritized problem list/plan of care for each patient.

a. Develop, evaluate and update individualized plan of care for patient and documents outcomes.

b. Initiating admission assessment within 8 hours of admissions, identifies and documents patient/family/significant other teaching needs upon admission and throughout hospitalization.

c. Continues assessment/reassessment and identifies care needs within established nursing practice.

d. Documents all patient care following the department of nursing policy, unit based standards, disease processes (CHF, PNA vaccines) and nurse sensitive indicators (falls, skin, CAUTI)

e. Assess/reassesses and documents patient's level of comfort utilizing the appropriate pain scale and the patient's response to each intervention both pharmacological and non-pharmacological per South Shore Hospital policy.

f. Works on behalf of patient /family. Seeks help to represent patient/family when they are unable to represent themselves.

g. Raises ethical questions and concerns with clinical team. Seeks available resources to help formulate and understand ethical decisions.

h. Actively communicates plan of day via white board updating every shift.

i. Facilitates discharge/transfer by goal of 12:00pm, communicates barriers utilizing chain of command.

3. Safety/Quality - Foster's a "Culture of Safety" through personal ownership and commitment to a safe environment.

a. Verifies patient identification with two identifiers prior to the start of any invasive procedure, including "time out", administration of care, medications, labeled specimen's an documents confirming the correct patient, procedure, site, equipment and consent.