Internships & Programs

Durham Regional Hospital GEMS program
(Graduates: Engaged, Mastering, Succeeding)

Durham Regional Hospital is proud to offer a unique, one of a kind new graduate program, which provides the new nurse the opportunity to try out several units before choosing a home base.

The GEMS program (Graduates:  Engaged, Mastering, Succeeding) is an information- packed, precepted, paid internship which allows the new nurse to work for several weeks on different units within a specific track:  Each GEMS intern selects an area of interest (Critical Care, Adult – Health, or Women’s Services) and is then assigned several weeks in each area.  At the end of the program the new GEMS nurse knows what the units feels like and the types of patients cared for, who the staff are on sister units, and has a bigger perspective of the hospital as a whole. 

For information regarding the Durham Regional GEMS program contact nurse recruiter: Wendi.Austin@duke.edu