Our nursing orientation is comprehensive and tailored to meet the unique learning needs of nurses who are new to BWH. The Nurse Intern Program for newly licensed nurses is a 6-12 week precepted clinical experience integrating simulation and reflective learning  at the bedside. This includes weekly coaching, performance review and opportunities for peer support and role socialization. 

Experienced nurses also participate in simulated clinical scenarios - those that integrate bedside technologies and common clinical emergencies. The nurses then spend several weeks with a clinical preceptor on their unit.

Continuing education includes classroom instruction, clinical work, e-learning strategies, simulation technology and scenarios on stroke assessment, as well as treatment and management of delirium. 

BWH has clinical placements for more than 1100 nursing students from 26 schools of nursing at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.    

Our Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) in collaboration with University of Massachusetts Boston and the Department of Nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital provides a unique clinical education for more than 17 undergraduate nursing students. As their clinical instructors, BWH nurses offer the students invaluable mentoring. The partnering organizations recently received $300,000 for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations to evaluate the outcomes of the DEU.