Children's Health February 2025 Nurse Residency Program

[2626ppmm]

Hello everyone, 

I wanted to start this thread for anyone who is applying for the Dallas/Plano Children's Health residency that begins in February 2025. I applied for the residency Monday and I am very excited and anxious. 

[BriBri4]

snm12345 said:

Hey everyone I hope yall are doing well! I know it's been a while but for those who have got a job offer have yall received any information for drug screening/ background check yet besides the initial email? Our start date is coming up and still haven't been told to do anything 

You'll likely hear something this week or next week, I think they said about 30-45 days prior to start date they start onboarding 

[snm12345]

BriBri4 said:

You'll likely hear something this week or next week, I think they said about 30-45 days prior to start date they start onboarding 

That's what I was thinking! Just thought we'd do the back ground check first and then the drug screen, to avoid doing everything at once 😭

[BriBri4]

snm12345 said:

That's what I was thinking! Just thought we'd do the back ground check first and then the drug screen, to avoid doing everything at once 😭

Nope they will send out an email to fill in all your background info and then call you to set up occ health for drug test and everything later. 

[snm12345]

BriBri4 said:

Nope they will send out an email to fill in all your background info and then call you to set up occ health for drug test and everything later. 

Thank you! 

[aspiringgRN]

Hello! Did any of you guys happen to do the Summer STEP program offered by childrens health? thank you!

[ank854]

Hello guys! Super random but I am planning on applying for the October 2025 nurse residency program and all I keep hearing about is how competitive it is. Can anybody give any tips or advice for how to boost the resume or literally anything else to help get a position? I will be grateful for any and all help!!

[Nurse2809]

ank854 said:

Hello guys! Super random but I am planning on applying for the October 2025 nurse residency program and all I keep hearing about is how competitive it is. Can anybody give any tips or advice for how to boost the resume or literally anything else to help get a position? I will be grateful for any and all help!!

Honestly, I am from out of state and I was just being myself. There isn't anyway to prepare. I had 2 years of peds experience as a tech which helped but not everyone has that and still got a job. They will ask priority questions/ scenario so be prepared I wasn't and still got it right LOL and general questions to gauge who you are as a person. I feel like they are really big on culture and making sure they have an amazing team of nurses! 

[nursingstudent45667]

Nurse2809 said:

Honestly, I am from out of state and I was just being myself. There isn't anyway to prepare. I had 2 years of peds experience as a tech which helped but not everyone has that and still got a job. They will ask priority questions/ scenario so be prepared I wasn't and still got it right LOL and general questions to gauge who you are as a person. I feel like they are really big on culture and making sure they have an amazing team of nurses! 

I feel like the majority of us had peds experience. That's probably what will help you the most imo! Also if you can go in to volunteer or anything/clinicals etc to really get a feel for Children's and what you like about it that will set you apart as well. Their employee retention is extremely high so they only wanna hire people that want to stay at Children's & love it as much as they do.

[snm12345]

ank854 said:

Hello guys! Super random but I am planning on applying for the October 2025 nurse residency program and all I keep hearing about is how competitive it is. Can anybody give any tips or advice for how to boost the resume or literally anything else to help get a position? I will be grateful for any and all help!!

I didn't have any hospital or tech experience, but I am lucky to be in the DFW area and did my pediatric clinicals at Children's. My professor knows a lot of people there and she was able to get me an inside referral from a team lead on the floor that I did my clinicals with. I was also able to get a lot of referrals from clinical instructors. 
On top of that I have a daughter who is autistic so I have some experience dealing with "disabled" kids. 
I just expressed wanting to work there and move my way up as much as possible and they seemed to really like that, like the others said they want people to stay with Children's for as long as possible! 

[newgradnurse12202]

has anyone heard from ED about interviews? 

[461104ejm]

Has anyone heard back from children's regarding interviews at all? 

[snm12345]

461104ejm said:

Has anyone heard back from children's regarding interviews at all? 

 

newgradnurse12202 said:

has anyone heard from ED about interviews? 

I believe there should be another forum for the July cohort if someone made one you can check for updates