OUR COMMITMENT TO ONGOING LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Specialty Nursing Fellowship Program

About the Program

At Lutheran Health Network, we are committed to ongoing learning and development. The Specialty Nursing Fellowship Program is designed to prepare, train and support the RN to gain the knowledge and specific skills needed for success in their chosen specialty.

The program currently offers four tracks and all are led by highly trained, service line subject matter expert RNs and contain engaging lectures, skills labs, simulation, and guest speakers. Also included are initial core competency packets, EKG competency, ALC lessons, required certifications, and Cerner orientation/competency. The unit- based preceptor is trained to support the program along with resources, including the network service line educators to provide support on an ongoing basis.

LHN currently has the following Specialty Nursing Fellowship Program tracks:

The Obstetrics fellowship program track prepares the new nurse or nurse new to the perinatal setting to care for normal and complicated obstetric patients, as well as managing antepartum, labor/delivery, and postpartum care for maternal and neonatal patients. Hands-on opportunities are available for nurses to to learn their role in the delivery room, assisting with difficult births and caring for both mom and baby.

This fellowship program track begins with the fundamentals of caring for multiple patients in a nursing unit. Both Med/Surg and ICU content covers organizational skills, facility resources, hands-on skills with various nursing tasks, such as ostomy bag changes, wound care and NG tube placement. A review of network and facility policies is included, along with evidence- based practice recommendations from Elsevier Clinical Skills. The ICU fellowship builds further on the nursing skills needed to care for our most critical patients.
This fellowship program track prepares the new nurse or nurse new to the OR setting to be in the OR suites. The OR fellowship provides hands-on opportunities for sterile technique, gowning, gloving, prepping and overall orientation to the processes and procedures specific to the OR.

The Obstetrics fellowship program track prepares the new nurse or nurse new to the perinatal setting to care for normal and complicated obstetric patients, as well as managing antepartum, labor/delivery, and postpartum care for maternal and neonatal patients. Hands-on opportunities are available for nurses to to learn their role in the delivery room, assisting with difficult births and caring for both mom and baby.

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