Date Posted: May 7, 2025
Deadline: September 1, 2025
Organization: Lexington Medical Center
Location: Columbia Area
City: West Columbia
Website: View Website
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education:
- Graduate of an accredited nursing school within past one year is preferred.
- Entry-level nurses serving in their first nursing role are required to participate in the Nurse Residency Program.
- Entry-level nurses who are not in their first nursing role may participate in the Nurse Residency Program at the discretion of the program leadership team.
- However, no longer than 12 months shall elapse from the time of graduation from the prelicensure nursing program to admission into the Nurse Residency Program.
- ADN, BSN, or MEPN degrees accepted.
*New graduate RNs who acquire their generic RN education through an on-line program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications.
Required Certifications/Licensure:
- Registered Nurse (RN) licensure through SC (or multi-compact state),
or
- Graduate Nurse (GN) Licensure through SC
- If hired with GN licensure, must pass NCLEX-RN by GN license expiration date to continue in Nurse Residency program.
- Current BLS certification.
LMC Careers
Full Time
AM/PM Shift
Variable (Days and Nights required)
Sign-On Bonus: Up to $12,500
Fall 2025 RN Residencies:
- Adult Acute Care
- Critical Care
- Emergency Department
- PACU
Job Summary
The RN Nurse Residency is for newly graduated Registered Nurses with less than one year of nursing experience. This year-long program includes:
- 12 PAID weeks of 1:1 Precepted Experiences on 1-2 Patient Care Units
- Online Orientation Modules
- Professional Development Classes
- Clinical Lecture Day
- Basic Arrhythmia (for required units)
- Arrhythmia Treatment (for required units)
- Complex Patient Management
- Delegation/Communication
- Time Management/Conflict Resolution
- Completion of Evidence-Based Project with Implementation Opportunity
- Scheduled Support Meetings with the Residency Coordinators
With the completion of our RN Nurse residency, our Nurse Residents can competently:
- Utilize the nursing process to promote and restore patient’s health status.
- Collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
- Provide physical and psychological support to patients, family members and significant others.
- Use a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses as well as supervise assigned team members.
- Ensure all responsibilities are carried out in accordance with the mission, vision, strategic imperatives and standards of the organization, American Nurses Association, Emergency Nurses Association and in accordance with the provisions/statues set forth by the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act.
2720 Sunset Blvd
West Columbia, SC 29169
United States
Our organization does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or disability.