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UK HealthCare nursing benefits 
See UK Human Resources for a list of comprehensive benefits.
UK HealthCare offers its nursing employees the following additional benefits:
- Salary commensurate with education and experience
- Differentials for evening, night and weekend shifts
- Flexible staffing/self scheduling for all nursing care areas
- Weekend Premium Pay Plans (WEPP)
- Acute care and critical care Per diem pool
- Accrual of vacation, holiday and sick hours
- Extensive orientation and preceptorship programs
- Exciting and informative high acuity classes plus innovative special training programs including:
- STAT (Surgical/Trauma Advanced Training program)
- CAT(Cardiac Advanced Training program)
- ED Internship
- OR Internship
- Post baccalaureate residency program for BSN new graduates
- Nursing professional advancement program
- In-house competency training and validation/CEU offerings
- Relocation assistance for RNs
- Nursing educational awards for nursing students (stipends awarded for Spring, Summer and Fall semesters)
- Nursing educational awards for new nursing graduates used as college tuition repayment
- SNAP (Student Nurse Apprentice Program)
- College tuition reimbursement benefit for new graduate nurses or Registered Nurses in refresher programs, requiring:
- Completion of Basic BSN or ADN program, successful completion of NCLEX, Kentucky RN license, December 2002 or later graduate.
- Recipients will receive tuition reimbursement paid per year for up to four years for BSN and two years for ADN with each payment repaid for one year of full-time service as a RN.
- RNs completing a refresher course must have an active KY RN license.
- Registered Nurses who completed a refresher program will receive a one time payment and agree to work for UK for one year as a full time employee at 0.5 or greater
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