Nurse Residency Program | New Grad RN | Spring 2026 Start

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Shift End Time:

AWS Hours Requirement:

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$56.580 - $70.170 - $83.760

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Professional Nurses Network, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, NUHHCE, AFSME, AFL-CIO.  Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

Required Qualifications

• Must be a graduate of a U.S. state-approved and accredited nursing program.
• Must have a current unencumbered California RN license by the program start date.
• Must have graduated no more than 18 months prior to the start date of the Nurse Residency program
• Graduation date no earlier than September 2024
• Must have less than 12 months of RN work experience on the start date of the Nurse Residency Program.
• Must have a current American Heart Association (AHA) BLS certification for a healthcare provider by program start date.
• Note: If required by the specific unit, additional certifications including AHA ACLS, NIHSS, PALS, NRP, or others, must be completed by the program start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing

Applications for our Spring 2026 New Graduate Nurse Residency Program will be accepted on the following dates:

Internal candidates: Monday, November 3rd 2025 (8am PST) - Friday, November 14th 2025 (5pm PST)

External candidates: Monday, November 10th 2025 (8am PST) - Friday, November 14th 2025 (5pm PST)

Program Start Date: March 2026

If you have any questions about the application process, please reach out to us at newgradRN@sharp.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can!

Important New Grad Application Instructions:

Review each clinical area/program requirement prior to beginning the application process. During the application process, you will be asked to select a preferred unit/program of interest and an alternate. The units that will be accepting New Grads for the summer cohort are listed below. Prior to submitting your application, please verify the accuracy of all information entered.

Spring 2026 New Grad RN Positions:

Sharp Coronado Hospital

Accreditations/Designations: Planetree, Center of Excellence Total Knee Replacement and Total Hip Replacement, Bariatric Surgery Accreditation (MBSAQIP), PTAP

Note: all units work 12-hour shifts, unless otherwise indicated

Start Date: March 2026

Sharp Coronado Hospital Acute and Progressive Care Unit

Purpose of Unit: Provides care for a diverse patient population including those needing both medical and surgical care. As an accredited hospital for both orthopedic and bariatric surgery, the Acute and Progressive Care Unit delivers personalized care for patients post-operatively, while also specializing in the care of patients with medical diagnoses

Top 5 Diagnoses: Pneumonia, heart failure, sepsis, total knee and hip replacement, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass

Number of Beds: 44

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Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center

Accreditations/Designations: Magnet, Planetree, PTAP

Preferred Qualifications: Bilingual English/Spanish

Note: all units work 12-hour shifts, unless otherwise indicated

Start Date: March 2026

Sharp Chula Vista Short Stay/ Observation PCU 4E

Purpose of Unit: Provides care for patients requiring less than two midnights in the hospital. The unit has approximately 25-30% short stay patients and the rest is overflow PCU patients

Top 5 Diagnoses: Chest pain, post-procedural (cath lab), withdrawals, AMS, abdominal pain

Number of Beds: 33

Sharp Chula Vista Neuro - Stroke PCU 4T

Purpose of Unit: Provides care for patients with stroke and other neurological disorders

Top 5 Diagnoses: stroke (ischemic and hemorrhagic), TIAs, ALOC, chest pain, chronic renal, cardiomyopathy

Number of Beds: 32

Sharp Chula Vista Heart Failure PCU 5E

Purpose of Unit: Focuses on heart failure but can also care for a wide variety of cardiac patients who need continuous cardiac monitoring

Top 5 Diagnoses: Myocardial infarction (chest pain, unstable angina) cath lab, angioplasty, hypertension, diabetes and renal failure

Number of Beds: 44

Sharp Chula Vista Emergency Department

Additional Required Certifications: AHA ACLS, PALS, NIHSS

Purpose of Unit: Provides care for pediatrics to geriatrics in emergent or urgent situations

Top 5 Diagnoses: Abdominal pain, cardiac pain, shortness of breath, muscular skeletal pain, fever

Number of Beds: 42

Sharp Chula Vista ICU Step-Down

Additional Required Certifications: AHA ACLS, NIHSS

Purpose of Unit: Care of the critically ill patients medically and surgically

Top 5 Diagnoses: Septic shock, Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Stroke, Cancer

Number of Beds: Medical 28, Surgical 10

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Sharp Grossmont Hospital

Accreditations/Designations: Magnet, Planetree, PTAP, Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center

Note: all units work 12-hour shifts, unless otherwise indicated

Start Date: March 2026

Sharp Grossmont Hospital Innovations PCU 2N/2S/1S

Purpose of Unit: 2N is a semi-private unit with overflow progressive care patients. We see a variety of diagnoses. We are the innovations unit with outside the box thinking. 2S/1S are ICU Step-Down units serving higher acuity patients. Types of patients can include but not limited to sepsis chronic respiratory failure. Mechanical ventilation titratable drips etc

Top 5 Diagnoses: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, coronary artery disease, gastrointestinal diseases respiratory failure, sepsis

Number of Beds: 37

Sharp Grossmont Hospital Oncology PCU 2E

Additional Preferred Certifications: PCCN, OCN, CMSRN, Med-surg-BC

Purpose of Unit: Progressive Care Unit that specializes in Oncology, Palliative Care, End of Life, Advanced Illness Management, and geriatric care (NICHE).

Top 5 Diagnoses: PNA, DM, UTI, different CA dx, sepsis, and other wide range of diagnoses

Number of Beds: 37

Sharp Grossmont Hospital Pulmonary/CHF Telemetry/PCU 4E

Additional Preferred Qualifications: PCCN

Purpose of Unit: Provides care for telemetry patients, primarily specializing in pulmonary failure, congestive heart failure, and renal failure

Top 5 Diagnoses: Heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, renal failure, coronary artery disease

Number of Beds: 37

Sharp Grossmont Hospital Neuroscience PCU 5E

Additional Required Certifications: NIHSS

Additional Preferred Qualifications: SCRN or PCCN

Purpose of Unit: Sharp Grossmont is the only Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center in East County and in the Sharp Health System. This unit is the designated neuro/stroke progressive care unit

Top 5 Diagnoses: CVA, TIA, peripheral vascular disease, hypertensive urgency, diabetes mellitus

Number of Beds: 37

Sharp Grossmont Hospital Emergency Department

Additional Required Certifications: AHA ACLS, PALS, NIHSS

Additional Preferred Qualifications: Acute care hospital experience such as LVN, Healthcare Partner/Assistant/Tech, Nursing Assistant, EMT, or Corpsman; CEN

Purpose of Unit: Provides 24-hour emergency services

Top 5 Diagnoses: Any condition from neonate through end of life

Number of Beds: 72

Sharp Grossmont Hospital Labor and Delivery (only available to current internal employees)

Additional Required Qualifications: Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)

Additional Preferred Qualifications: Experience in a similar setting, such as LVN, Healthcare Partner/Assistant/Tech, etc.

Purpose of Unit: Provide 24-hour care to pregnant individuals during the antepartum, intrapartum and immediate postpartum period

Top 5 Diagnoses: Intrauterine pregnancy, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, pyelonephritis, preterm labor

Number of Beds: 24

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Essential Functions

• Clinical advancement
  Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
  Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care.
  Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care.
  Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action.
• Clinical judgment and decision making
  Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
  Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk.
  Continuously evaluates interventions and care, and adjusts the plan as patient and family needs change.
  Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
  Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
  Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs.
  Acts as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population.
  Makes appropriate referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
  Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease and/or complications of treatment.
  Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
  Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar.
  Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
  Comprehensive; representing detailed, concise picture of patient's care.
  Serves as a resource for other staff in managing unit specific documentation issues.
  Charting reflects a critical thinking/problem oriented approach to patient issues.
• Clinical leadership
  Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
  Knowledgeable about what can and cannot be delegated to each different health care team member.
  Responsible for delegation and follows through to ensure delegated task is complete.
  Before delegating, analyzes each situation, determines and consistently applies levels of supervision needed (unsupervised, initial direction and periodic inspection, continuous supervision, or should not be delegated).
  Assesses appropriateness of physician orders and to question physician when appropriate.
  Helps coworkers improve performance.
  Offers assistance and support to coworkers.
  Provides positive feedback to others.
  Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately.
  Provides incidental teaching to members of the team.
  Looks for and applies ways to improve work processes and systems.
  Offers and accepts constructive feedback/criticism in a non-judgmental, positive and confidential manner.
  Seeks out opportunities to assist and support coworkers.
• Nurse-patient/family relationship
  Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
  Anticipates problems to establishing/maintaining a therapeutic relationship with a specific patient and takes actions to enhance quality of nurse/patient/family interaction (problems may include: spiritual, cultural, language or other communication barriers; those imposed by nature of illness or health issue).
  Analyzes social/cultural variables and adapts nursing interventions to meet diverse needs.
  Serves as a patient advocate through actions such as: removing obstacles, identifying and supporting appropriate needs and wants; interpreting for patient to physician and visa/versa.
  Provides age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness.
  Coordinates transfer and discharge planning and teaching in collaboration with other members of the health care team.
  Collaborates with other team members to identify, develop and/or revise patient education materials.
  Demonstrates flexibility to teaching based on assessment of learner's needs and the integration of adult learning principles.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Independently performs the nursing process through individualized assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of safe, therapeutic, efficient care for patients with overt and subtle needs throughout the continuum of care, and according to unit's standards of care. Performs safe nursing care for patients in more complex situations with some assistance and supervision. Demonstrates competency in all areas of the unit skills and some advanced skills. May teach some skills competencies. Coordinates patient care administered by other members of the care team. May assume the responsibility of relief charge nurse and may assist with preceptorship/professional development of new nurses and students. Uses common equipment and medications safely in the practice setting and consults others when unfamiliar. Recognizes inconsistencies in patient care and manages potential complications. Demonstrates consistent organization and prioritization of workload; confident management of emergency situations. Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Complies with all regulatory and accreditation standards. Demonstrates professional behavior through participation in unit activities and committees as appropriate. Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team. Teaches skills as necessary. Coordinates patient care administered by other members of the nursing staff. Utilizes a variety of teaching/coaching strategies to assist family through disease process/experience. Promotes clinical effectiveness, efficient use of resources, and quality care in practice setting. Transfers knowledge and mentors others to improve clinical practice. Demonstrates complex problem solving and the use of critical thinking skills.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class