Paid Preceptor Program
Experienced Huntington Hospital RNs are encouraged to become Preceptors to New Graduate RN Interns. To participate, you must be "certified" by attending a preceptor-training course provided by the Education Department, and also sign an agreement with your respective Nurse Manager attesting that you will provide adequate resources, do what is asked of you, and provide a higher level of preceptoring.

As a New Graduate RN Intern Preceptor you will be paid a total of $2,500.00 over a 13-month period.

LERN Program
If you are an experienced RN who assists in training a colleague who is not a New Graduate RN, you do not receive Preceptor pay but are eligible for LERN points.

One hundred LERN points are earned for every training hour that you provide (i.e. 12 hours = 1200 points). The points can be redeemed for seminar fees, nursing conferences, etc. Points are redeemed and approved through the Education Department.

Superior New Grad Program
This features a minimum 18-week orientation, didactic, supervised and unit-based clinical experience. We offer six weeks of classroom education, supportive preceptorships and increase in pay after six continuous months on the job.

Opportunities for New Grads exist in these areas:

• Cardiothoracic
• Critical Care^*
• DOU^*
• Emergency Department^*
• Labor & Delivery^*
• Maternity/Nursery
• Medicine
• NICU^*
• Oncology
• OR
• Ortho/Neuro
• Pediatrics
• PICU^*
• Rehab
• Respiratory
• Surgical

* Extended training program offered for these areas.

Ongoing Training
Individual hospital departments provide a host of educational courses specific to their expertise. At the same time, Huntington Hospital's clinical education department offers courses which cross departmental lines, with offerings related to employee orientation and competency assessment for new employees, as well as ongoing staff development and continuing education.