Education at St. Joseph's
Committed to healthcare education.
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona is committed to health care education.
Education at St. Joseph’s includes education for medical students through our partnership with Creighton University School of Medicine, post-medical school training through residency and fellowship programs, and through academic partnerships with schools training nursing and allied health students.
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center is proud to invite the physicians of tomorrow to learn from the finest physicians today. With over 60 years of teaching students, we value your education. St. Joseph’s in Phoenix, Arizona is committed to medical education. Medical education at St. Joseph's includes both education for medical students through our partnership with Creighton University School of Medicine as well as post-medical school training through residency and fellowship programs. Our faculty are training future physicians, today.
St. Joseph’s is a teaching hospital – a fact that contributes enormously to the hospital’s medical advances. Our academic environment ensures that our medical staff remains on the cutting edge of medicine, teaching and providing tomorrow’s medicine today. To effectively train future generations of physicians, Barrow faculty members are committed to continually challenging themselves and staying open to new ideas and discoveries.
St. Joseph’s collaborates with academic partners to provide clinical education experiences for Dignity Health, Arizona Division. Hands-on clinical experience allows nursing and other health care students to receive practical and relevant training that will give them the skills to function at a high level with confidence and compassion.
All requests for student placements within an Arizona Dignity Health facility are processed through the Learning Institute. Dignity Health requires all academic partners to utilize the My Clinical Exchange (MCE) platform for orienting and preparing students and faculty to fulfill Dignity Health’s facility, regulatory, mission and safety standards and requirements.
St. Joseph’s is committed to teaching the next generation of health care practitioners. Dignity Health AZ has affiliation agreements with selected academic institutions to offer elective clinical rotations with approved preceptors for advanced nurses and physician assistant students.
Nurse Practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) clinical rotations with St. Joseph’s providers must be secured through the process of college and university student placement program coordinators networking with the Dignity Health student placement team. School placement coordinators and individual students are not encouraged to contact St. Joseph’s faculty and staff to secure clinical rotations.
Rotation Options
The academic institution’s placement coordinator is required to submit completed application request for placement with the required documentation forty-five (45) days prior to the start date of the requested rotation. The application and accompanying documents can be emailed to the clinical placement specialist:
Please note, application submission does not guarantee placement.
The Nursing Transition to Practice Program (TPP) at St. Joseph’s works with undergraduate/student nurses throughout the transition to graduate and then to resident. As part of their program, participants develop clinical and professional skills in a nurturing environment that promotes clinical judgment and eases the transition from student to registered nurse (RN) in the workplace. By providing a positive work experience, we foster a commitment and bond to the organization, thereby facilitating the recruitment and retention of nursing professionals at St. Joseph’s. The positions under this program are paid positions and candidates must apply and complete the interview and hiring process.
St. Joseph's follows research guidelines indicating that hiring new graduate nurses in cohorts improves retention rates. Therefore, RN Externs and RN Residents are only hired at pre-determined cohort time periods, typically coinciding with academic graduation dates, NCLEX testing operations, St. Joseph's academic partnership programs, and key stakeholder recommendations.
RN Externships are for student nurses who are seeking extra experiences to help prepare them for professional nursing. A RN Extern is a nursing student who has not yet graduated from their nursing program. However, they have completed at minimum, Block 1 of their program. When hired at St. Joseph’s, the RN Extern is paired with a preceptor in a patient-care area. View information on upcoming RN Extern opportunities.
The RN Resident program includes 12 RN competencies that must be completed within the resident’s first year of nursing practice and validated in the live patient environment.
The Nursing TPP Program is designed to work with the other education programs at St. Joseph's, including unit orientation, hospital orientation, 101 courses, and online adjuncts. For any questions regarding our Nursing Residency/Extern Programs, please call 602-406-2220 or email [email protected].
The Learning Institute and Simulation Center at St. Joseph’s is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for CE Provider Accreditation, ensuring our healthcare professionals, academic, and community partners receive education, training, and feedback using evidence-based education practices. We are also accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSIH) for teaching and education.
The Learning Institute provides CE credits. Education services eligible for nursing CEs include:
For more information on how to apply for nursing CEs or if you have any questions about Nursing Continuing Education, please contact our Arizona Division Education Administration Office or Lead Nurse Planner at (602) 406-2220 or email ANCC CE Provider Lead Nurse Planner at [email protected].
At St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center our nurses are part of a vital interdisciplinary team that consist of respiratory therapists, pharmacists, educators, social workers, chaplains, therapists and doctors. Our nursing practice is guided by our nursing vision “today and every day, we will work together with Humankindness for all to advance the science and art of nursing".
