# Nurse Residency Directory

> An independent, free directory of 1,213 nurse residency and transition-to-practice programs — 1,144 in the United States across 49 states and D.C., and 69 in 10 other countries. 1,150 hold ANCC PTAP, Vizient/AACN, or CCNE accreditation. Records are sourced from public accreditation registries and official health-system career pages; the current dataset was last sourced 2026-05-02. Published by Global Cyber Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. No program pays for a listing, a rank, or a badge.

## What this directory does and does not contain

- Contains: program name, operating organization, city, state/region, country, care setting, specialty focus, career stage, accreditation status, and a link to the program's own application page.
- Does NOT contain: salary figures, cohort size, application open/close dates, or contract/service-commitment terms. These are not published in any registry we can verify against, so they are deliberately omitted rather than estimated.
- Listings are labelled unverified unless a program coordinator has confirmed them.

## Data

- [Full dataset (JSON)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/data/programs.min.json): all 1,213 records, machine-readable.
- [Facet counts (JSON)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/data/facets.json): counts by state, specialty, country, setting, accreditation.
- [Methodology and sourcing](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/about): how records are collected, ranked for confidence, and corrected.

## Browse by state

- [California (161 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/ca)
- [Texas (123 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/tx)
- [Florida (81 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/fl)
- [Ohio (68 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/oh)
- [New York (51 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/ny)
- [Illinois (49 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/il)
- [Pennsylvania (42 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/pa)
- [New Jersey (40 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/nj)
- [North Carolina (35 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/nc)
- [Virginia (35 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/locations/va)

## Browse by specialty

- [Medical-Surgical (919 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/med_surg)
- [Emergency (165 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/emergency)
- [Critical Care / ICU (149 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/critical_care)
- [Perioperative (123 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/perioperative)
- [Pediatrics (96 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/pediatrics)
- [Oncology (64 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/oncology)
- [Cardiac (56 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/cardiac)
- [Psychiatric / Mental Health (34 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/psych_mental_health)
- [Labor & Delivery (21 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/labor_delivery)
- [Transplant (18 programs)](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialties/transplant)


## Cross-sections

- [Specialty by state](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/specialty-by-state): a given specialty within a given state (for example, perioperative residencies in Iowa). No individual hospital publishes this view; it is derived across all 1,213 records.
- [By health system](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/systems): multi-hospital systems that run one residency across many sites — often one application covers the whole system.
- [By city](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/cities): US cities with three or more programs.

## Guides for applicants

- [How to choose a residency](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/how-to-choose)
- [How to get in](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/how-to-get-in)
- [Application timeline](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/application-timeline)
- [Accreditation explained](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/accreditation-explained)
- [Salary guide](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/salary-guide)
- [Glossary](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/glossary)
- [FAQ](https://nurseresidencyprograms.com/guides/faq)