Nursing Professional Development

Newly hired nurses participate in hospital and nursing service orientation, as well as individualized, competency-based unit orientation using a preceptor model.

Recognizing Excellence, Scholarship, and Accountability (RESA) is BIDMC’s program for professional nurses in direct patient care. RESA recognizes practice excellence, knowledge, competence, commitment to quality, and leadership. The RESA program is a platform for nurses to chart personalized paths along the domains from which the program takes its name: excellence, scholarship, and accountability in nursing practice. It acknowledges nurses’ contributions to advance the art and science of nursing at BIDMC and in the larger nursing community.

We have a robust program of continuing education programs for staff. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Nursing Education is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by American Nurses Association Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Once each month, teams of clinical staff present a topic or case to colleagues from throughout the medical center, focusing on both clinical care and professional development needs of staff.

BIDMC is fortunate to have many nursing endowments, which support a generous scholarship program devoted to nurses and other employees enrolled in academic nursing programs.

Each year during National Nurses Week, BIDMC presents over 20 excellence awards to nurses on staff, including peer-nominated awards from the Nursing Department as well as recognition from colleagues representing a wide variety of clinical areas.

Nurses at BIDMC have resources available that help them advance the research base for nursing and ensure that practice is evidence-based.

Our nurses are active participants in professional forums where they can share their ideas about practice and learn from colleagues.

A variety of opportunities are available on the clinical units that allow nurses to develop expertise in a clinical area or leadership role.