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Graduate Nurse

Encompass Health
Dayton, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 3/23/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/21/2026
Graduate Nurse Career Opportunity

Encompass Health: Where Nursing Meets Heart, Home, and Healing

Looking for a nursing career rooted in purpose, close to your heart and home? At Encompass Health, you'll play a vital role in patients' recoveries-providing individualized, compassionate care that makes a lasting impact. Here, small victories add up to monumental change, and you'll thrive in an environment built on support, advanced resources, and teamwork.

The Graduate Nurse position provides a transitional role for graduate nurses to begin orienting while waiting to pass the NCLEX and fully function as a Registered Nurse. This position is responsible for providing direct patient care activities appropriate to training and competency for assigned patients and for completing and assisting RNs with assigned patient care activities while promoting excellent patient satisfaction and outcomes. This position gains clinical experience by learning nursing procedures and various disease processes, familiarizing themselves to the hospital environment and interacting with physicians and other healthcare providers.

A Glimpse into Our World

At Encompass Health, you'll experience the difference the moment you become a part of our team. Being at Encompass Health means aligning with a rapidly growing national inpatient rehabilitation leader. We take pride in the growth opportunities we offer and how our team unites for the greater good of our patients. Our achievements include being named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and receiving the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® Award, among other accolades, which is nothing short of amazing.

Starting Perks And Benefits

  • Our benefits are designed to support your well-being and start on day one:
  • Affordable medical, dental, and vision plans for both full-time and part-time employees and their families.
  • Generous paid time off that accrues over time.
  • Opportunities for tuition reimbursement and continuous education.
  • Company-matching 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • A vibrant community of individuals passionate about the work they do!

Realize Your Vision as a New Registered Nurse

Join a supportive RN cohort with a structured curriculum designed to build confidence, enhance your skills, provide mentorship and set you up for long-term success.

  • Build meaningful relationships with patients and their families, understanding their unique needs to facilitate their recovery.
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively with various departments to ensure coordinated care and provide direct patient care when needed.
  • Celebrate victories and milestones achieved by our patients.

Qualifications

  • CPR certification required.
  • Proof of completion of a RN program and eligibility to sit for NCLEX.
  • Must take NCLEX within six months of being granted Graduate Nurse status.

The Encompass Health Way

We proudly set the standard in care by leading with empathy, doing what's right, focusing on the positive, and standing stronger together. Encompass Health is a trusted leader in post-acute care with over 150 nationwide locations and a team of 36,000 exceptional individuals and growing!

At Encompass Health, we celebrate and welcome diversity in our inclusive culture. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, color, creed, age, mental or physical disability, or any other protected classification.

We're eager to meet you, and we genuinely mean that. Join us on this remarkable journey!

The Encompass Health Way

We proudly set the standard in care by leading with empathy, doing what's right, focusing on the positive, and standing stronger together. Encompass Health is a trusted leader in post-acute care with over 150 nationwide locations and a team of 36,000 exceptional individuals and growing!

At Encompass Health, we celebrate and welcome diversity in our inclusive culture. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, color, creed, age, mental or physical disability, or any other protected classification.

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