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A career in critical care nursing offers both extraordinary challenges and countless rewards. Through the Critical Care Nurse Internship & Residency Program at Lahey Clinic Medical Center, you can make this exciting and fast-paced career your own. Offering a two-phase education, the program is designed to enhance your critical care nursing skills and expedite your transition from student nurse to professional registered nurse.
Unique Learning Opportunities
Blending unit-based learning along with experiential workshops, the program offers a well-rounded, clinical/classroom approach essential to your success as a critical care nurse.
Throughout your internship, you'll be paired with a critical care nurse "coach" to observe the role of nurse as part of the critical care team. You'll have an opportunity to expand your knowledge of communication, critical thinking and collaboration between critical care team members.
As a resident with licensure, you'll develop advanced critical care nursing skills, clinical decision making and priority setting in an accelerated learning environment.
Eligibility
The program is designed for students between their junior and senior year of nursing school with a 3.0 GPA. Applicants must have completed a minimum of one medical-surgical nursing course.
Time Commitment
You'll be required to work 32 hours a week for 10 weeks, starting in May. Once the 10-week period is completed, you'll continue to work a minimum of 10 shifts throughout your senior year. Following successful completion of the licensing exam (NCLEX), you'll then become a Critical Care Nurse Resident (CCNR).
Loan Forgiveness Program
Once you're accepted into the program, you can enroll in the Critical Care Nurse Internship & Residency Loan Forgiveness Program to receive a $10,000 loan to cover school-related expenses. Within one year of receiving the loan, you must complete the internship portion of the program.
Once the Residency portion of the program begins, Lahey will forgive 25% of your school loans per year until the loan is totally forgiven, as long as you continue to work full time (32 hours or more per week) in designated critical care areas for four years after entering the Residency portion of the program.
