New Grad RN Residency - New Grads and Applicants with less than 12 months of RN experience

New Grad RN Residency

Our hospital-based New Grad RN Residency Program offers a variety of nationally recognized curriculum. This innovative and evidence-based curriculum is delivered through a comprehensive 12-month program focusing on three areas critical to new nurse success: leadership, patient outcomes, and professional role. During your time in our program, you will consistently feel supported by leaders and nursing mentors who genuinely care about you and your goal to become the caregiver you’ve always envisioned.

We partner with our New Grad RNs to help them select which hospital and department is best for their career goals. With locations throughout Colorado, Kansas, and Utah, you will have many opportunities to be the nursing professional you’ve worked so hard to become.

Specialty Pathways:

• Behavioral Health
• Critical Care
• Emergency Department
• Intermediate Care
• Medical/Surgical
• NICU
• Operating Room (OR)
• Women’s

Start your nursing career with us

We are excited to welcome you, the next generation of caregivers, into our health ministry.

With multiple cohorts offered a year, you will be able to find the program that best meets your career goals. Join one of our monthly calls to learn more or apply today!

Our ongoing monthly Nurse Residency call(s) takes place on the first Wednesday of each month.

For questions, please feel more than welcome to email our New Grad RN team: nurserecruitment.mtregion@commonspirit.org

Early applications are strongly encouraged as units may close early when available positions are filled.

Upcoming Cohort Dates

Fall 2025 cohort dates

• Applications Open: July 7, 2025
• Program starts: October 13, 2025

Spring 2026 cohort dates

• Applications open: November 10, 2025
• Program starts: March 2, 2026

Summer 2026 cohort dates

• Applications open: TBD
• Program starts: July 2026

Specialty Pathways

We have re-imagined our New Graduate RN Residency Programs to advance the quality of our care and services by focusing on the growth and development of you, our caregivers.

Our program utilizes evidence-based curriculum and is designed to support new nurses.

In this program, you will have the opportunity to rotate between day and night shifts, getting to know more about different unit cultures & team members. Our New Grad RN Residency Specialty Pathways were created to help you transition from the classroom to thriving as a difference-maker while experiencing a fulfilling and rewarding career.

New Grad RN Residency Specialty Pathways include:

• Behavioral Health
• Critical Care
• Emergency Department
• Immediate Care
• Medical/Surgical
  • Cardiac, Oncology, Neurology, General Medicine, General Surgery, Orthopedic, ED Observation, Telemetry, Rehab
• NICU
• Operating Room (OR)
• Women's Services

Our specialty pathway program encourages you to work in a unit that matches your interests and career goals, allowing you to enhance and develop your clinical skills. You will rotate through day shift and night shift on your unit within the specialty. These rotations provide the opportunity for you to become familiar with unit cultures, patient populations, and meet peers in your specialty to find the best fit for your future career.

As New Grad RN Residents, you will be part of an organization-wide team and report to the residency director, who will support you in navigating through our program.

Shift Differentials

• Evening: up to $2.75/hour
• Night: up to $5.75/hour
• Weekend: up to $2.00/hour

Program Eligibility

• If you are nearing graduation, we encourage you to apply.
• To be eligible for the program, you must have obtained licensure within the last 12 months or anticipate licensure within two weeks of the start date of the cohort.
• For experienced RNs with 12 months or more looking to change/new to specialty, please visit our FAQs for more information

Program Timeline

• This program comes with a full-time work commitment of 24 months. The 24 month commitment begins following completion of clinical training and orientation.
  • Clinical training: 14 weeks for non-OR, 16 weeks for OR
• After eight weeks in the residency program, you will transition into your unit and be matched to a shift (day or night). Then, you will continue 6 additional weeks of orientation on your determined shift.
• RNs placed into the OR Specialty Pathway will have a more detailed orientation which will continue for an additional 16 weeks.
• RNs placed into the Medical Surgical Specialty Pathway can rotate for an additional 2-3 different units, including rotating day and night shifts on those units. This will provide a more detailed med-surg orientation. You will receive your final unit & shift placement after your initial 8 weeks in the program.