Life After Graduation

70% of the traditional nursing class of 2023 had jobs lined up by graduation in mid-May. Examples of these job placements are:

• Neuroscience ICU at Mayo Clinic in Rochester
• ER/Trauma Nurse Residency at Mayo Clinic
• ICU Nurse Residency at Mayo Clinic
• ER/Trauma Nurse Residency at Mayo Clinic (Rochester)
• Labor & Delivery – Parkland Health (Dallas, TX)
• NICU residency at Children’s Hospital (Los Angeles)
• Surgical Nurse Residency, Bozeman Deaconess Hospital
• Enhabit Home Health, Helena
• Home health & hospice RN at Symbii Home Health & Hospice in Afton, Wyoming
• ER at Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego, CA)
• Surgical – St. Peter’s Health, Helena
• Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City (float pool)
• ER at St. David’s Medical Center (Austin, TX)
• St. Luke’s Cancer Institute (Boise, ID)
• Neuro Surgical Trauma ICU/Stepdown unit at St. Alphonsus Hospital (Boise, ID)
• Medical – St. Peter’s Health, Helena
• ER – St. Luke’s (Boise, ID)
• OR nurse residency at Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (Vancouver, WA)
• Surgical PCU at Banner Desert Medical Center (Mesa, AZ)
• ICU at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center (Medford, OR)
• Clinical Decision Unit Nurse Residency at Providence in Portland, OR
• Cardiac floor at Sacred Heart Med Center (Spokane, WA)
• Surgical/Oncology floor – St. Peter’s Health, Helena 
• Surgical Progressive Care Unit at Banner Health (Mesa, AZ)
• Medical/Surgical/Oncology unit at St. Vincent/Intermountain Healthcare (Billings, MT)
• OR – St. Peter’s Health, Helena
• Med/Surg – Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital (Glasgow, MT)
• ED Residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
• Critical Care Float Pool Residency at OU Health in Oklahoma City, OK
• Observation Unit at St. Vincent’s Healthcare in Billings, MT

More than half of the traditional nursing class of 2022 had jobs lined up by graduation in mid-May. Examples of these job placements are:

• Emergency Department – Howard University Hospital in Washington DC
• Orthopedic/Trauma/Spine Unit – Johns Hopkins
• Float pool – St. Luke’s Treasure Valley
• Inpatient Cancer Care Unit – Billings Clinic
• ICU Float Nurse – Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Surgical floor – St. Peter’s Health in Helena, MT
• Emergency Department – Billings Clinic
• Spinal Injury Unit – St. Luke’s Rehab Institute
• Community Living Center RN – Puget Sound VA in Seattle
• Surgical Progressive Care Unit – Johns Hopkins
• Labor & Delivery Unit – St. Peter’s Health
• Benefis Helena Urgent Care
• Emergency Room – Oschner Main in New Orleans
• Oncology – St. Luke’s Healthcare in Boise
• Orthopedic nurse – Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA
• Med/Surg – Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, AK
• Medical Unit – UC Health, Colorado Springs
• RN Circulatory OR – Helena Surgicenter
• Fort Harrison VA
• NICU – Billings Clinic
• PCVU Nurse – Benefis Health Systems
• Postpartum Unit – Bozeman Deaconess Hospital

Our first Accelerated Nursing students graduated in August 2022 and had a 100% first-time passage rate on the NCLEX-RN! Job placements included:

• RN Resident Pediatric Surgical, Providence St. Patrick's (Missoula, MT)
• Ortho Neuro floor Nurse Resident, St. Charles Hospital in Bend, OR
• Labor & Delivery at St. Luke’s Boise/Nampa (Idaho)
• Operating room at Logan Health in Kalispell, MT
• Clinic RN - Partnership Health Center/Missoula County Public Health Medical floor at St. Peter’s Health (Helena)
• University of Utah Critical Care Residency
• ER Nurse Residency Program at Skagit Regional Health in Washington
• Tucson VA Medical Center in Tucson, AZ
  RN at St. Patrick Hospital on the cardiac telemetry floor (Missoula, MT)
• Float Pool at St. Peter's Health in Helena
• RN Resident - Surgical Pediatric Unit - St. Patrick's Hospital - Missoula
• Rady’s Children’s Hospital - San Diego, CA
• New grad ICU residency program at Bozeman Health
• Benefis Health Systems: Great Falls: RN Nurse Residency in ED
   

Examples of employment from our 2021 graduate nurses

• St. Alphonsus Ortho Joints Unit in their Nurse Residency Program (Boise, ID)
• Labor & Delivery unit in El Paso, TX
• Primary Children’s Hospital Inpatient Psych Unit (Salt Lake City, UT)
• RN at Northern Rockies Orthopedics in Missoula, MT
• Cardiac/Telemetry at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula, MT
• Inpatient Surgical Unit at Billings Clinic
• St. Peter's Health - Emergency Department
• St. Alphonsus – Surgical (Boise)
• OB unit at Benefis in Great Falls, MT
• Shodair Psychiatric Children’s Hospital
• RN on the Progressive Cardiovascular Unit at Benefis in Great Falls
• RN surgical floor at St. Peter’s Health
• Nurse Residency position on medical & COVID unit at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Riverbend (Springfield, OR)
• PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend - residency on surgical floor (Springfield, OR)
• MD Anderson in Houston, TX (stem cell transplant floor)
• Billings Clinic – Medical Oncology Outpatient Clinic
• ICU nurse - Billings Clinic
• Pullman Regional Hospital
• Virginia Mason – night shift med-surg (Seattle)
• Cardiothoracic ICU floor at the University of Washington
• Registered Nurse - Partners in Pediatrics, Helena
• RN at Billings Clinic on the Ortho/Neuro floor
• RN at the Women's Health Care Center in Helena MT
• St. Vincent’s Healthcare Nurse Residency (Billings)
• Benefis – ICU (Great Falls)
• Billings Clinic – Inpatient Cancer Care Unit (Nurse Residency Program)
• oncology at United Hospital (Allina Health) in Minneapolis, MN
• Highland Hospital – Emergency Department Nurse Residency Program (Rochester, NY)
• St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Surgical New Grad Residency Program (Boise)
• ICU nurse at St. Alphonsus hospital, Nampa Idaho

Examples of employment from our 2020 graduate nurses

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Oncology nurse resident (Tennessee)
• Billings Clinic ICU
• Behavioral Health Unit at St. Patrick’s in Missoula
• OB Unit at Bozeman Health
• RN Inpatient Postpartum/Gynecology (OB) at Sanford Health (Bismarck, ND)
• St. Peter’s Health ER (Helena)
• Inpatient Cancer Care RN at Billings Clinic
• ICU at Sanford Health (North Dakota)
• Behavioral Health Unit at Providence in Missoula
• RN at Shodair Children's Hospital (Helena)
• Behavioral Health Unit at St. Peter’s Health (Helena)
• Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls
• Emergency Department at Billings Clinic
• Leo Pocha Clinic (Helena)
• Medical/Surgical/Pediatric RN at St. Alexius Health in Dickinson, ND
• Coordinator of clinical services at Endocrinology Clinic at St. Peter’s Health (Helena)
• Skilled Nursing/Long-Term Care RN, Providence St. Joseph's Care Center in Spokane, WA
• RN on Cardiovascular Unit at Billings Clinic
• St. James Healthcare in Butte
• RN on Surgical Floor at St. Peter's Regional Medical Center, Helena MT
• RN on Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit at Benefis (Great Falls)
• VA Healthcare in Oregon
• Neuro ICU nurse at MedStar Hospital Center in Washington D.C.
• Cardiac nurse resident at Vanderbilt (Tennessee)
• Continued service in Army Reserves and FLEX RN on Children’s Unit at Shodair Children’s Hospital (Helena)

Examples of employment from our 2019 graduate nurses

• Two grads at Mayo Clinic in Rochester on the Medical unit
• Two grads at Mayo Clinic in Rochester in NICU
• Billings Clinic - ICU
• St. Peter’s Health Medical Group Clinical Service Coordinator in Helena
• St. Vincent’s – Billings on Cardiac/Telemetry Unit
• Acute rehab – St. Luke’s Medical Center in Boise, ID
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester - St. Mary’s Hospital, general and plastic surgical unit
• Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, OR & Circulatory RN
• ICU – St. Clare Hospital - Lakewood, WA
• RN Clinic Coordinator with St Peter’s Medical Group
• Two grads at Benefis Health System Emergency Room Residency Program in Great Falls
• Surgical Residency – St. James Healthcare, Butte
• Community Hospital of Anaconda, Labor & Delivery
• Nurse Residency at E. Maine Medical Center – Bangor, ME
• Labor and Delivery New Grad Residency, Billings Clinic
• ICU – Abdominal Transplant Unit @ Tulane Medical Center
• Nurse residency program at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls - Progressive Cardiovascular Unit (PCVU)
• NICU, Billings Clinic
• Cardio Unit, Billings Clinic
• Telemetry Unit – St. Luke’s in Boise

Employers were asked, “Are there any areas where this Carroll College graduate excels?”

We are always happy to get a Carroll College grad!

If she is an indication of the quality of your program, I would say you are doing very well, indeed.

She] strives to meet her patient's needs with compassion and understanding. She is very intelligent, eager to learn, and integrate new knowledge into her practice.

He is a true professional. While he still has a lot to learn in critical care, he is accountable to his own development, provides excellent care at his skill level, and has an outstanding work ethic.

She continually strives to improve her practice by actively engaging with our professional practice leaders, educators, and mentors. She actively participates on our unit-based council.

She is excellent in thought process and patient advocacy. She communicates very well and is able to anticipate patient needs very well

She is great with patients. She is knowledgeable but is not afraid to ask questions when she is unsure or is questioning orders. She keeps our patients safe!

She is a quick learner and team player. Her patients and colleagues speak very highly of her.

She is not afraid to find the correct information in order to provide the patient with the best care. Making sure evidence-based practice is being used. If unsure she asks questions appropriately. Graduate has great communication- it is obvious by her interactions with co-workers that she cares about her patients and wants the best outcomes for them.

She has a positive attitude and very willing to stretch and learn

RN is an exceptional peer educator and mentor/preceptor to new and developing nurses.

[Grad] is very good at assessing an ER patient and immediately considering adverse risks and differential diagnoses based upon the patient's stated complaint coupled with the actual presentation.

She has fantastic interpersonal communication skills. [Grad] is thorough and compassionate with patients

Excellent employee and nurse in all areas.

Her communication style is excellent. She is learning very quickly and has drastically improved the culture of our department through her positive attitude.

Incredible compassion, patience and flexibility. She is a joy to work alongside.

Too many to list. Our unit and patient population present complicated ethical challenges, and she serves by offering a different lens and incorporating her learnings into direct patient care as well as support of her peers.

She excels in all areas. She is a role model on our unit and within the organization.

She establishes excellent rapport with patients and peers.

Strong critical thinking skills.

Customer service, self-driven on improvement and increasing knowledge base.

Collaboration, leadership, flexibility, high acuity competency.

Precepting new RN hires.

Great team member.

Leadership; hardworking; self-motivated; competent.

Communication and analyzing.

She is an incredible nurse and leader. She is professional, kind, compassionate and maintains a very high standard of care with patients. Her critical thinking skills far exceed the standard and she is regularly recognized for her ability by her peers as well as physicians.

Excels at everything she does! She is an excellent nurse and has already been given more responsibility as a clinical nurse and is now precepting and helping new nurses coming in.

Follow through, thoroughness, dedication, openness, desire to learn and grow, leadership.

Leadership, aptitude to assimilate clinical knowledge, critical thinking.

Communication and flexibility.

Communication, critical thinking and community outreach.

She holds positions on several councils to work with management and her peers to drive change and patient safety for her unit.

He is one of my best employees. It reflects very well on your institution.

Carroll graduates excel at seeing the bigger picture of holistic care versus seeing each order as a task that needs to be completed. They are able to put the entire patient in the center of everything they do and are able to think through how doing one thing affects the next thing.

New Carroll RN grads are positive, asking lots of questions, able to critically think through the care they are providing, able to clarify inconsistencies, motivated and eager. It appears to me the faculty are doing a great job at Carroll.

Carroll College produces some of the best nurses I have ever had the pleasure of working with!

Courage: She understands disease processes in the med-surg arena that allows her to speak up. She is identified as a subject matter expert in this field!

Approachable: All staff members enjoy working with her because she's fair, honest, and a proven hard worker.

Excellent memory and attention to detail: She has developed, updated, and researched 10 policy and procedure guidelines. Her willingness to learn and help when needed allows senior leadership to trust her to act as "acting" department head when needed.

She excels in critical thinking in a fast paced primary tertiary care center. She has exceptional people skills and is a strong team builder.

She owns her practice, is engaged in her role, continues to seek education, and has received her Oncology Certification.

Her ability to interact positively with both patients and staff across the organization is very admirable.

He is easy to work with and willingly tries new things. He goes beyond expectations to complete a job.

Compassion and a holistic approach to care.

She is a wonderful employee and is caring and excellent when providing care to patients. She is always willing to go the extra mile for her patients. While she is incorporating her knowledge as a student and a nurse, it's her unfailing compassion and kindness makes her an excellent nurse.

He has excellent critical thinking skills!

She has a strong work ethic and is a critical thinker. She is an asset to our team.

I have several Carroll grads on my unit and they all have been much more confident in expressing themselves to other team members. They are articulate and very self-confident individuals.

Carroll graduates excel at seeing the bigger picture of holistic care versus seeing each order as a task that needs to be completed. They are able to put the entire patient in the center of everything they do and are able to think through how doing one thing affects the next thing.

New Carroll RN grads are positive, asking lots of questions, able to critically think through the care they are providing, able to clarify inconsistencies, motivated and eager. It appears to me the faculty are doing a great job at Carroll.

Carroll College produces some of the best nurses I have ever had the pleasure of working with!

I have several Carroll grads on my unit and they all have been much more confident in expressing themselves to other team members. They are articulate and very self-confident individuals.

Carroll graduates have great communication skills, and a very sound base entering practice.

The Carroll students seem better prepared to integrate theory with practical application.

I have worked with several Carroll College graduates, they seem to be especially prepared for roles which require additional responsibility and leadership.

Keep up the great work of educating the next generation.

I feel the Carroll graduate nurses are well prepared – they come with good clinical knowledge achieved through their clinicals. I have just hired another Carroll graduate. I am very pleased with their knowledge and work ethic.

They are confident and feel prepared for their career. They are proud to be Carroll grads too.

I wish I had 100 of her!

She is very thoughtful and logical in her analysis. Very calm presence; excellent critical thinking and organizational skills; develops a very trusting relationship with her patients, families, and co-workers

Her whole patient care and communication to her team members.

All the students I've hired are excellent!

Critical thinking, time management, problem solving, professionalism