West Orange, NJ, February 30, 2025 –RWJBarnabas Health has been named to Becker’s Hospital Evaluate’s 64 Simulation and Education Programs to Know checklist for 2025.
The checklist celebrates hospitals and well being programs with distinctive simulation and teaching programs throughout the U.S. The organizations on the checklist are devoted to advancing their workforce and repair strains by state-of-the-art expertise and lifelike simulation packages. These packages empower college students and professionals to hone their expertise in lifelike, secure settings designed to reflect real-world eventualities and drive higher affected person outcomes, decrease well being care prices and enhance affected person security. They supply a safe surroundings the place suppliers can develop experience by hands-on apply.
The Institute for Nursing Excellence at RWJBarnabas Well being provides cutting-edge schooling {and professional} growth for nurses by state-of-the-art coaching services that serve the complete system statewide. The Institute emphasizes hands-on schooling, rising expertise and lifelike simulations to bridge the hole between classroom studying and medical apply, decreasing redundancy and standardizing care protocols throughout the system.
Key initiatives embrace the Nursing Orientation Unit for RN Integration, Help, and Well being (NOURISH™) Program, a devoted orientation unit for newly licensed registered nurses, and a sturdy one-year nurse residency program offering mentorship, specialty schooling and help to new graduate nurses.
The influence of The Institute has already been felt throughout the system. In August 2024, Monmouth Medical Middle (MMC), an RWJBarnabas Well being facility, realized it has been redesignated as a Magnet with Distinction® hospital for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Middle (ANCC), turning into the primary hospital in New Jersey and the eleventh within the nation to earn Magnet with Distinction.
Contact: Carrie Cristello
Carrie.Cristello@rwjbh.org