Orientation
UCSF Medical Center’s mission, vision and values start with nursing orientation where they are reviewed and highlighted as they are exemplified in everyday professional nursing practice.
The centralized Nursing Education & Research department presents orientation to provide a broad overview including, the UCSF Medical Center model of care and role responsibilities based on departmental standards of care and available resources.
The goal of nursing orientation is to ensure that new employees receive consistent information regarding policies, procedures, standards and documentation to support professional practice.
Beginning with orientation and ongoing, learning opportunities are provided to support nurses throughout all phases of their professional development.
New employees participate in a competency-based orientation that is designed to meet individual needs.
Various learning methods including computer training, classes and self-learning modules are used concurrently with clinical preceptorship to assist in role socialization and integration into UCSF Medical Center’s culture and environment.
The central program lays the foundation for staff to report to their areas to begin unit-specific orientation.
All new employees are assigned a unit-based preceptor to continue their orientation.
2008 Orientation Schedules for:
- RN Career Staff/Per Diem (Except OR & PACU nurses)
- Traveler RNs
- OR RN Career Staff/Per Diem
- PACU RN Career Staff/Per Diem
- PCAs & PSAs Orientation Schedule
**Please Note:
- Please contact Nursing Education (353-1993) if you have any questions.
- All career employees need to attend Hospital Orientation within 30 days of hire.
- Career RNs – Career RNs must attend a full-day Nursing Orientation class AND a half-day Day 2 class (EXCEPTIONS: OR RNs, NPs, and Home Care RNs do not attend Day 2).
- Traveler RNs – Travelers attend only “RN Orientation Day 1” from 0830 – 1630 and UCare training.
- PACU / OR RNs – PICIS classes are posted on CADE at http://cade.ucsfmedicalcenter.org. Access this site to enroll and/or to view any updates to the course, date, time, and location.
- PCAs / PSAs – PCA / PSA orientation is strongly recommended prior to working on the unit.
- USCs – Please schedule all new USCs for a 2-hour orientation appointment (353-1695) and IDX Training (353-3452). IDX classes - FOT – 518 Nursing Visit Management training are held on each scheduled date (morning session from 8:00 am -12:00 pm or an afternoon session from 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm). All USCs must attend this class. For IDX course descriptions, go online to Nursing Publications, Nursing Administration, in the IDX folder or http://training.ucsfmedicalcenter.org. Managers can schedule IDX classes online at http://cade.ucsfmedicalcenter.org or contact Paris Jefferson or Donna Chao at 353-3452. The location of the IDX classes is 3360 Geary, Suite 241. Please visit our online training website for the most updated information on scheduled courses, dates, times, and locations.
- UCare/Sentillion notes:
- RN career and per diem staff must attend UCare if: (1) they will be working on a UCare unit, (2) the unit staff are currently being trained for UCare, or (3) they will be working in the med/surg float pool.
- Travelers in acute, transitional, and intensive care units must attend UCare class (EXCEPTIONS: ED, OR, and PACU).
- PCAs in acute care, transitional care, and float pool will attend a 3-hour UCare class (EXCEPTIONS: ED, adult/pediatric critical care). If the PCA is from the ED or adult/pediatric critical care, they will only need to attend the morning session of orientation.