Specialty Training Program

UC Davis Health's New Graduate Nurse Residency Program (NGNRP) spans 12 months. During that time, Nurse Residents participate in NGNRP Core curriculum in addition to specialty area training, if applicable.

Note that not all specialty areas may be hiring for all cohorts.
  • Ambulatory Operations
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training for the ambulatory unit they are hired into.
  • Cancer Center
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training to work in the Cancer Center.
  • Critical Care Fellowship
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training for the ICU float pool.
  • Critical Care
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training for the specific ICU they are hired into. 
  • Emergency Department
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training for the emergency unit they are hired into.
  • Labor & Delivery, Recovery & Post-Partum
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training to work in labor & delivery, recovery, and/or post-partum.
  • Medical Surgical
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training for the medical-surgical unit they are hired into.
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training to work in the NICU.
  • Oncology
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training to work in oncology.
  • Operating Room
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive the additional training described below:

    Utilizing the Association of PeriOperative Nurse (AORN) Guidelines for Perioperative Practice, the New Graduate Nurse Resident will learn perioperative nurse principles such as the introduction of the perioperative role, surgical asepsis, patient safety, the foundations of surgery and foundations of surgical anesthesia. Nurse Residents complete 6-months of training, with two weeks in the classroom. Upon completing the OR specific training, nurse residents will be prepared to scrub or circulate in any of our surgical areas such as the Main Operating Room, Children’s Surgery Center, Same Day Surgery Center and our new University Tower Surgery Suites. They will also be able to describe the three phases of the perioperative process, explain the preoperative interview process using EMR and comprehend the components of the Universal Protocol.
  • Pediatric Intensive Care
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training to work in the PICU.
  • Pediatric
  • During the year-long NGNRP, Nurse Residents will receive additional training for the pediatric unit they are hired into.