By now, we’ve all heard it – healthcare employee numbers are still at an all-time low. Ranging from registered nurses to dieticians and mental health techs, staffing shortages aren’t just a unique challenge to Shodair. And, yet, in the midst of what the world has deemed a “broken system,” Shodair continues to rise above – both as a provider and employer. While our new hospital building is strategically designed to tackle some of Shodair’s physical limitations, our employee culture has been at work from within for years. Centered around the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed care, our team is far more than a siloed group of employees. Together, along with our patients, we’ve built a community that doesn’t just treat adversity, but chooses to walk through it with both practice and heart. At Shodair, our employee culture is driven by our values, and our values are driven by our very real and everyday mission to heal, help, and inspire hope.

While our dedication to employee success is most obviously encompassed through our benefits and commitment to ongoing training, our heart for equipping passionate and driven healthcare providers goes beyond our current employees. In addition to internships and higher-education support, earlier this year, we launched our first New Graduate Psychiatric Registered Nurse (RN) Residency Program. Built to support new graduate nurses as they transition from the role of a student nurse to an RN, this program provides a mixture of classroom learning, one-on-one instruction, and clinical orientation focused on child and adolescent psychiatrics. Offered throughout the year, development opportunities like these not only feed into our existing culture of growth and learning, but serve as an inspiration to our entire organization, including our patients.