When you arrive as a new grad, our six-month fellowship program provides the specific training to build the foundation you’ll need to become a neuroscience specialty nurse. Through didactic and hands-on learning opportunities, you’ll progressively build your skills―and your confidence. Our Program Unit Orientation, Weeks 1 through 8 | - Precepted on unit
- Lectures and skills sessions
| Specialty Orientation, Weeks 9 and 10 | - Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Brain Rescue Unit
- Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
| Lectures | - Anatomy and physiology
- Assessment skills
- Trauma education
- Clinical topics
- Nursing model of care
- Practice that emphasizes caring, compassion and healing
- Leadership development: communication, delegation, cultural understanding, Charge nurse class, preceptor workshop, NCIII Role
| Enrichment and Direct Care
| - Spend a day in the general operating room with our world-renowned neurosurgeons.
- Learn about a patient’s diagnosis in the Neurological Consultation Clinic or Neuroradiology.
- Observe brain cutting in Pathology.
- Accompany the multidisciplinary health care team members: respiratory therapists, shift coordinators and wound-care nurses.
- Observe diagnostic tests: EEG, TEE, CT, MRI.
- Understand the roles of the chief resident and the ED consult resident by following them throughout the day.
- Experience the care continuum by following patients across the neuroscience setting.
- Reflect on your fellowship progress at periodic group meetings.
| Requirements | - Maryland RN license
- Confirmed position on Meyer 8 or Meyer 9
- Employment commitment of 18 months from hire date
| To Apply
If you’d like to apply for the Neurology and Neurological Surgery Nurse Fellowship or want more details, please contact: Robin Wantz, MSA, MSN, RN CNRN
Neuroscience Nurse Manager, Meyer 9 Neuroscience Acute Care
Telephone: 410-955-9157
Fax: 410-614-0339
E-mail: rwantz@jhmi.edu
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