Seattle Children’s Hospital

RN Residency Information

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Accreditation

Seattle Children’s RN Residency Program is accredited with

distinction through the American Nurses Credentialing Center
Practice Transition Accreditation Program.
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Requirements

• ADN or higher from an accredited Nursing School

– BSN highly preferred
• Less than 1 year of professional RN experience
• State of Washington RN License active prior to start date
• BLS certification active prior to start date
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ProgramUnits
Units – November 2021

Acute Care Critical Care

Medical NICU
Surgical
Cancer Care PICU
Rehab CICU
Infusion
Ambulatory Radiology*

PBMU ED
ACFP
Occupational Health PACU*

Highlighted units are currently participating in November 2021, but this

may change. Future cohorts may have different units participating.
* Units are slightly rare participants, but it does happen!
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Ambulatory for coming!
Clinics

About Ambulatory Clinics:

• 30+ pediatric specialty clinics
• Multiple regional clinics across
Washington state, as well as
Alaska & Montana

Our Team:
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team
• Become experts in educating patients
on disease management
• Support patients and families in their
home environment
• Coordinate and connect care in the
community
• Telephone triage
• Professional development opportunities
Cancer Care
• 48 bed unit - upcoming expansion of BMT program/infusion
• Patient based population: Hematology/oncology, blood disorders, bone marrow transplant
• Patient ratio (averages)
– H/O: 3:1
– BMT: 2:1
– Care model: Clinical Charge RN on each wing, CNA support, integrated multidisciplinary
team approach
• Creative positons: D/N rotator, clinic rotator, PICU/CAN rotator-building a flexible workforce
• Growth opportunities: Shared Governance, certification, continuing education, teaching and
precepting opportunities
• Our unit is known for it’s amazing teamwork, as well as ability to build rapport and long
standing relationships with patients and their families.
• A day in the life of our unit is: BUSY. CHALLENGING. FUN.
• What you’ll like best here is: The chance to learn and grow, to be able to work in a
challenging, research focused environment and providing cutting edge treatments .
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Medical Unit
About our unit:
• 47 beds
– Nurse patient ratio: 4:1/3:1
• Endocrine, Rheumatology, Respiratory,
Neurology, GI, General Medical
– Ages 0-21(+)
• Medically Complex Children
• Family education/training
• Multidisciplinary teamwork
• Special Pathogens Unit
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Medical Unit–- Forest
Forest 33
About our unit:
• 32 beds
– Nurse patient ratio: 4:1/3:1/2:1
• Pulmonary, Craniofacial and General Medical
– Ages 0-21(+)
• Medically Complex Children
– Critical airways
– Ventilator/BiPap
– High Flow
• Family education/training
• Multidisciplinary teamwork
• Special Pathogens Unit
 Surgical Unit

About Our Unit:

• 78 beds – 33 on River 5 & 45 on River 6
• Patient Ratio/Population:
– Typically 3:1 patient ratio for surgical patients from infancy to young adult
– R6: cardiac surgery; telemetry; solid organ transplant & organ failure; neonatology
– RC5: neurosurgery; orthopedics; urology; plastics; general surgery
• Special Skills/Equipment:
– R6: PD; VAD; temporary pacing; special infusions; cardiac drips; drains/lines/tubes
– R5: EVDs; EEG monitoring; braces/casts; halos; pain drips; ostomies; drains/lines/tubes
• Our Unit is Known For:
– Teamwork; working with the most services/teams; admits from PACU; all CICU transfers; building
long-term relationships with patients who undergo multiple lifetime surgeries
• A Day in the Life of Our Unit:
– Bedside report on 3 patients; admits/discharges; pain control; feeds/eating; education; inspiring
positive memories in our patients; advancing patient so they can get back home
• What You’ll Like Best Here:
– Our team! (spirit week; fun events; bike teams; skits/videos; candy; sports teams; etc.)
– Growth opportunities! (Shared Gov; Charge Nurse; Flex; precepting; mentoring; SDI groups)
– Variety of patients, services, and lengths of stay!
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Psychiatry & Behavioral
and Medicine
Behavioral Unit
Medicine (PBMU)
Unit (PBMU)
About our unit:
• 41 beds
• Acute inpatient psychiatric care
• Average length of stay is 5-7 days
• Patients ages 6-17
• Diagnoses including depression, anxiety,
OCD, eating disorders, disruptive behavior
disorders, psychosis, etc.
• Our unit is known for great communication skills, strong teamwork, and lots of fun!
• A day in the life of our patients is a lot like that of a boarding school.
• Nursing care involves high volume medication passes, wound care, focused
assessments, and occasionally other nursing care.
• The best candidates for our unit are flexible, great critical thinkers, have leadership
qualities, and like working with kids who are mobile and mostly physically healthy.
• Nurses do intensive training in therapeutic communication skills when starting on
the unit and start orienting to nursing roles after this is completed.
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Rehab Unit

About our unit:

• You will be part of a multidisciplinary team
with Occupational Therapists, Physical
Therapists, Speech and Language
Pathologists, Physicians, Social Work,
Phycology, Therapeutic Recreation, and
more.
• 12 beds
• 3:1 or 4:1 Patient Ratio/Population
• Trained to work with Trach/Vent, Brain
Injury, Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR),
Single Event Multi Level Ortho surgery
(SEMLs), and Polytrauma patients
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Acute
Acute you
Care
Care for coming!
Float
Float Pool Pool (ACFP)
(ACFP)
What is the Acute Care Float Pool (ACFP)?
The ACFP is a unit of RNs and CNAs that provide staffing support to units all
over the hospital. Our RNs work in Medical, Surgical, Cancer Care, Rehab,
Vascular Access Service (VAS), and the Emergency Department (ED) on any
given day. Staff can float between assignments as frequently as every four
hours to meet the needs of our units. Generally, we are given the same
assignments as nurses that work on that unit with some clear restrictions.

How does it work being a New Graduate in the float pool?

Our ACFP New Grads train first to our inpatient, acute care units. After about
a year off orientation, they cross-train to VAS and the ED. Being a new grad in
the float pool is equally challenging and rewarding as you will truly become a
“jack of all trades”.

What are you looking for in a New Graduate RN to work in the ACFP?
Within the float pool, we are never truly an expert in any one area. Your
success relies heavily on your ability to ask questions, escalate concerns, and
communicate effectively. Therefore, we are looking for candidates that
exhibit these qualities. Above all, we want to know that you are flexible and
adapt well to change.

Will I still be a part of a unit?

The float RNs may not work together often but we are still a strong unit. We
have our own Shared Governance model and staff meetings. In general, we
are very supportive of one another.
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Neonatal you forCare
coming!
Unit (NICU)
About the NICU:
• 32 beds
• 2:1 or 1:1 patient load
• Newborns need specialized care, and our
skilled team provides excellent, individualized
care for babies of all sizes, from 1 pound and
up!
• We are the quaternary referral center for the
four state WAMI region (Washington, Alaska,
Montana, and Idaho), so we care for many
babies with extremely rare medical and
surgical diagnoses.
Why you’ll love working here:
• Our nurses care deeply for babies, and are
experts at giving them the nursing care, love,
and attention they need to thrive. We use a
collaborative team approach to partner with a
wide range of disciplines and give the best care
for our tiniest patients.
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Pediatric you forCare
coming!
Unit (PICU)
About the PICU:
• 38 beds
• 1:1 or 2:1 nurse/patient ratios
• 14 Subspecialties
Skills:
• ECMO
• CRRT
• Liver Transplant
• Kidney Transplant
• Oncology
Our Team:
• Beacon Award of Excellence
• Strong nurse and physician
partnership
• Robust support system
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Pediatric you forCare
coming!
Unit (PICU)
Our orientation:
• Phased orientation
• 16 weeks w/ 1:1 preceptor
• Additional weeks w/ shared preceptor
Curriculum includes:
• Multiple skills days w/clinical experts
• Self-paced online learning with
modules & other topics for discussion
• Didactic core classes presented by
topic experts
• Hi-fidelity sim w/ PICU cohort &
interdisciplinary team
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Cardiac Intensive Care
Care Unit
Unit (CICU)
(CICU)

Fast CICU Facts

• 20 beds (+ 4)
• Assignments 1:1 or 1:2
• We take patients with acquired
and congenital heart disease from
across WAMI and as far away as
Hawaii, Japan, and Guam
• We often use ventilators, Why I love working in the CICU:
temporary pacemakers, CRRT, and “I love learning about the different
ways of treating pediatric heart
ECMO to support our patients disease, having a lot of autonomy in
patient care, and seeing the way our
teamwork can save lives.”
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Emergency
Emergency for coming!
Department
Department(ED)

About our unit:

• 38 bed facility
• 4:1 patient load
• Consecutive Lantern Award recipient
• Who do we serve? Everyone!
• Our unit is known for its resiliency and “can do” attitude
• Never the same day twice
• What you’ll like best here is the teamwork and collaboration within a
multi-disciplinary team
• Shift options in the department vary greatly. We have shifts starting
almost every 2 hours. 7a, 9a, 11a, 1p, 3p, 7p
• Training in disaster preparedness and response
• First responders for outside medical emergencies
• Nursing care in the ED will include: assessments, IV placement, port
access, NG placement, procedural sedation, emergency resuscitation
and much more!
• Specialty training in conscious sedation using ketamine, nitrous, and
propofol
 HR Application
Application Advice Tips

• Deadlines – mark your calendar or put it in your phone!

• Apply! The job will be posted on our career site from 8/16 – 8/29
• If any of your application answers change after you submitted your application,
email us at RNResidencyHiring@seattlechildrens.org and we can update your
responses
• Get referred if you know someone at the organization
• Carefully review all application questions and your answers for accuracy
– Early questions are about basic qualifications and timing (non-negotiables)
and are knockout questions
– Later questions are about your unit preferences and reasons why
– Escalate any technical problems with your application to
RNResidencyHiring@seattlechildrens.org
• NCLEX – sign up and study ASAP
– Deadlines are on the job posting & Residency FAQs are online
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Application Tips
Advice Continued

• Resume and Cover Letter are REQUIRED (yes, you really should write one)
• Clearly all list hours for your senior practicum, internship, and work
experience/rotations on your resume.
• Check your email regularly and answer your phone! If we can’t contact you, we
can’t invite you to interview or provide you with other updates! 
• Consider using a personal email address instead of a school email address for your
primary contact information. School emails often expire shortly after graduation.
• Interview invitations are sent out over the course of a few weeks after the
application closes, up to the Friday before the Interview Day.
• If/when you are invited to attend the Interview Day, make sure you promptly
respond to SkillSurvey, our online reference check vendor.
• Carefully read and prioritize your unit preferences.
NextSteps
Next Steps/Deadlines
and Deadlines

• Work on your resume and cover letter utilizing tips from this presentation
• Reach out to your SCH contacts for referrals if applicable
• To submit a referral, an SCH employee needs to email us at
RNResidencyHiring@seattlechildrens.org. Just a short message saying who they’re
referring and why is all that is needed.
• Applications are due by Sunday, 8/29/21 at 11:59pm
• SCH internal referrals are due by Sunday, 8/29/21 at 11:59pm
• Critical Care + Ambulatory Shadow Day: Cancelled for this cohort (COVID-19)
• Interview Day: Friday, 9/17/21 via video conference call. This is our only interview
day option for this cohort.
• WA State RN License Target: Friday, 10/15/21
• WA State RN License FINAL DEADLINE: Friday, 10/29/21 at 2:00pm
• Cohort start date: Monday, 11/1/21
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 Thank
Thank you!you for coming!
Please email
RNResidencyHiring@seattlechildrens.org
with any questions. Thank you for your
interest in our RN Residency Program! We
look forward to reviewing your application.

- RN Residency Team