Up and down the San Joaquin Valley, hospital programs for newly-hired registered nurses are providing a year of additional training and experience beyond what they received en route to their nursing degree.
CommonSpirit Health, which operates about 30 hospitals in California and 138 nationwide, is in the midst of expanding a nursing residency program in both California and across the U.S. In the San Joaquin Valley, it has hospitals in Stockton, Merced and Bakersfield.
CommonSpirit Health is the largest Catholic system of hospitals in the U.S., created from the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health initiatives in 2019…