Program
El Rio Health’s APRN Residency Program is accredited by the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium.
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Why is an NP Residency valuable?
Drivers
1. To provide the new Nurse Practitioner at El Rio with the tools to help them feel competent to safely deliver high-quality care to the patients that El Rio serves in the Tucson community.
2. To Provide a safety net for the new Nurse Practitioner at El Rio to be able to learn, grow in skills and to be able to balance work and life demands.
3. That the Nurse Practitioner with the training and skills obtained through the Nurse Practitioner Residency Program would remain at El Rio and in time would be able to mentor a new Nurse Practitioner.
4. Every patient at El Rio deserves to be seen by a highly competent, knowledgeable, and skilled PCP.
5. Provide ongoing training for our current nurse practitioner staff to increase competency and improve retention.
Curriculum
1. Family Practice Clinics – Residents develop their own patient panel while having a preceptor exclusively assigned to them including a weekly session of designated pediatric care.
2. Specialty Rotations – Focused rotations in high-risk, high-volume, and high-burden areas most commonly encountered in FQHC settings.
3. Pediatric Intensive -Residents gain extensive pediatric care experience in a precepted pediatric clinic twice monthly throughout the 12-month residency year to feel confident in full scope family practice.
4. Mentored Clinics – Residents focus on episodic care seeing patients under the supervision of a mentor PCP who is available for consultation.
5. Weekly Didactic Sessions – Formal learning sessions on a variety of complex clinical challenges most commonly encountered in FQHCs.
6. Quality Improvement Training – Focused didactics to develop knowledge and skills to improve care utilizing QI tools and methods. Opportunity to initiate change within the health system through 8articipation in QI project teams.
7. Participation in Ongoing Multi-Input Evaluation – Residents contribute to continuous programmatic improvement via assigned evaluations throughout the residency experience.
8. Interprofessional Education – Quarterly learning sessions featuring collaborative team-based care across disciplines.
