Career Ladder Program

Our Practice of Nursing at Waterbury Hospital upholds the Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice from the American Nurses Association. The Career Ladder program is designed to recognize excellence in practice in the profession of nursing. It is based on the valued principles of caring and excellence.

The Career Ladder program is based on Patricia Benner’s Clinical Nursing Practice conceptual model of novice to expert by providing rewards and recognition for experience and professional contributions. Though advancement is voluntary, every nurse maintains high standards of care by upholding the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation in their delivery of patient care.

Options for advancement in the Career Ladder foster growth in professional performance, including the areas of quality of care, peer review, education, collegiality, ethics, collaboration, research and resource utilization.