Residency Program Puts Nurses On Fast Track; New Grads Get Help Adapting From School to Professional World

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Menomonee Falls - Jay Schroeder calls his inaugural year in nursing "very difficult."

Between the grief of losing patients, the complexities of treating multiple medical complications and the wrath of doctors he phones at 2 a.m., Schroeder has faced a baptism of fire that rattles many new nurses.

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Residency Program Puts Nurses On Fast Track; New Grads Get Help Adapting From School to Professional World

"It can get very disheartening at times," Schroeder says at the start of a 12-hour night shift at Community Memorial Hospital.

But as stressful as this year has been, Schroeder considers it much easier because of the Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program.

With nearly $2 million in federal grants and uncharacteristic collaboration among competing health care systems, 40 hospitals...

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