
RN Residency 3S Med Surg
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
Tacoma, WAJob$47.86–90.42/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The RN residency provides a mentored, evidence-based program to help nurse residents develop confidence and professional nursing skills. Residents collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to deliver individualized patient care, administer treatments, monitor vital signs, and educate patients and families. The program emphasizes evidence-based practice, communication, leadership, professionalism, accountability, and teamwork.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a National Nurse Resident, you’ll step into a hands-on, supportive experience designed to help you grow and build confidence from day one. You won’t be on your own. You can expect real mentorship, meaningful feedback, and a team invested in your long-term success.
Every day, you’ll collaborate with physicians and a multidisciplinary team to deliver care that sees each patient as an individual. You’ll administer treatments, track vitals, educate patients and families, and play a key role in making sure people feel seen, heard, and cared for.
To succeed in this role, you’ll actively engage in our comprehensive, evidence-based Nurse Residency Program designed to support your growth and professional development. With a strong drive to learn and a team-first mindset, you’ll continue sharpening your skills while building a meaningful, fulfilling nursing career.
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Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and Patient Care: Builds skills to utilize current evidence based practice knowledge, the nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving skills to provide holistic care to individuals across the lifespan and care continuum.
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Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication: Learns to collaborate and communicate with the interprofessional team to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
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Leadership: Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery. Behaves in a manner that supports colleagues, and maintains respect, trust and dignity.
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Professionalism: Acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice and assumes responsibility for the professional development of self.
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Attainment of Core Competencies: Taking Ownership: Has a basic understanding and knowledge of the current situation or issue at hand; ability to take full personal responsibility or ownership for assignments, activities, decisions and results.
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Teamwork: Basic understanding and knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; participates effectively as part of a team.
Job Requirements
Required
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Associates Of Science Nursing and 0-12 months of professional nursing (RN) experience, upon hire
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Registered Nurse: WA, upon hire
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Basic Life Support - CPR / AHA (American Heart Assoc)
Preferred
- Bachelors Of Science Nursing
Where You'll Work
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has a rich history of providing exceptional healthcare, dating back to 1891. Building upon a legacy of compassionate care and innovation, our organization has evolved over the years through strategic partnerships and integrations to expand our reach and services across the Puget Sound area.
Today, as Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, we remain deeply committed to healing the whole person – body, mind, and spirit – in the communities we serve. This commitment is strengthened by the diverse expertise and shared values brought together through our growth.
Our dedicated providers offer a full spectrum of health care services, from routine wellness to complex disease management, all grounded in rigorous research and education. Our comprehensive network of 10 hospitals and nearly 300 care sites strategically located across the greater Puget Sound region reflects our ongoing commitment to accessibility and comprehensive care.
We are proud of our pioneering medical advances and numerous awards and accreditations that reflect our dedication to excellence. When you join Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you become part of a team that delivers top-quality, professional healthcare in modern, well-equipped facilities, and contributes to a legacy of service built on collaboration and shared purpose.
Pay Range
$47.86 - $90.42 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 59,241 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$47.86–90.42/hr
- Washington median$48–86/hr493 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr25,069 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $69.14/hr, is 3% above the Washington median midpoint ($67/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 688 open Registered Nurse jobs in Washington and 59,241 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (this employer)157 open
- Providence86 open
- Health Advocates Network60 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 29,034 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 15,917 of the 59,241 open Registered Nurse jobs (27%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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