So I am originally from Texas and I came to nursing school here in Pocaitillo, Idaho at Idaho State University. And so when I graduated I had to make the tough decision to either go back home to Texas with my family or stay here in Pocaitillo and work at the hospital that I felt was the best fit for me. During nursing school I had many of my clinicals here at Portknife Medical Center and I felt that all of the staff was extremely friendly and I could ask any questions. I encourage other nursing students to begin their career here at Portknife Medical Center because we have a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care. We have all of the resources we need to begin our career in nursing. In our residency program we get experience in other departments including the emergency department, the intensive care unit. We can follow respiratory therapists, dietitians. We really can follow anyone that we choose to in the hospital. My name is Luke. I'm the clinical educator for the ICU and the cardiovascular floor here at Portknife Medical Center. I've been with Portknife for 11 years. There are many things that I really enjoy and love about Pocaitillo. One of the biggest things is access to skiing, rock climbing, mountain biking, some world-class road biking. We are a couple hours from Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Just a couple hours to the north. To the south we've got the city of Salt Lake which offers a lot of culture and entertainment there. One of the strategies we use here at Portknife to assess the competencies and skills of our nurses is to ask the nurses what skills they want to develop. As our unit will send out a survey asking the nurses what skills does the unit need to work on and what skills do the individual nurses need to work on. This really provides for an opportunity for the professionals in the nursing at the bedside to to build their own skill set as they see needed. Hi there my name is Juliet Hamway. I'm clinical nurse educator for the Med Surge Unit here at Portknife. I'm also interim manager of nursing education and I've been here for five years now. What I love most about working here at Portknife is that Portknife has a culture of continuous improvement so I really appreciate how they adopt change from the ground up. What I mean by that is if you are a CNA or a staff nurse on the floor if you make the choice to be part of our unit based council. If you don't like how we do things you have a say in how we make changes and you can actually adopt those changes facilitated by myself and your nurse director. Another thing that I love about working here at Portknife is that if your dreams are to really shoot for the sky you have the opportunity to do that here. So when I started here five years ago I was a staff nurse on Med Surge. I'd been a nurse for a while but Med Surge was new to me and from staff nurse I became one of the primary preceptors after getting some more experience. I became a charge nurse. Then I had the opportunity to become clinical nurse educator when I had a broader range of expertise in my area. Now I've adopted a dual role as interim nurse manager for the education department and that's been awesome as well. So I just think it's a really cool place to work because if you want to move up in your career you have the opportunity to do so. Your first year in nursing is going to be the hardest time in your whole career. So I'm here in the Nurse Residency Program is here to really hold your hand through that process and help smooth over that transition from novice to proficient and even expert nursing. Even if Med Surge isn't the place that you want to be it doesn't matter where you get hired as a new grad you have the opportunity to be part of our program. We offer skills labs you can shadow other departments but instead of being a student now you're a licensed nurse in those departments getting experience there. You'll have lectures from a broad range of individuals including physicians to respiratory therapists and so on. In Nurse Residency you also have the opportunity to work on process improvement. I help you through that process our quality department our nurse director we all help you through that process and you can work as a team in small groups to actually work on things that you don't like about your units processes. So if you don't like how we store certain equipment that can be your project and you can improve it on your unit.