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As of Aug 12, 2026, the average hourly pay for nurse refresher in the United States is $37.70, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $28.85 and $46.39 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are nurse refresher courses?

Nurse Refresher courses are educational programs designed for nurses who have been away from clinical practice and wish to update their knowledge and skills before re-entering the workforce. These courses typically include both classroom instruction and hands-on clinical experience, covering current nursing practices, technology, and patient care standards. They help ensure that returning nurses are prepared to meet licensing requirements and provide safe, effective care in today’s healthcare environments.

What types of support and resources are available to nurse refreshers as they re-enter clinical practice?

Nurse Refreshers typically receive structured support, including mentorship from experienced nurses, access to continuing education modules, and hands-on clinical skills labs. Many programs pair returning nurses with preceptors who guide them through updated protocols, technology, and patient care expectations. Additionally, Nurse Refreshers often participate in workshops and simulation training to rebuild confidence and competence in a supportive environment. This collaborative structure helps ease the transition back into active nursing practice and ensures patient safety.

What is the difference between Nurse Refresher vs Licensed Practical Nurse?

AspectNurse RefresherLicensed Practical Nurse
CredentialsTypically requires a nursing license and completion of refresher coursesRequires LPN license and certification
Work EnvironmentClassroom, clinical labs, and sometimes clinical practice settingsHospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities
PurposeUpdate skills, renew licensure, re-enter workforceProvide basic patient care under RN supervision

The main difference is that a Nurse Refresher program is designed for licensed nurses seeking to update their skills and renew their license, often after a break, while a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is a specific nursing role providing direct patient care. Nurse Refresher courses prepare nurses to re-enter the workforce, whereas LPNs are employed in various healthcare settings to perform practical nursing duties.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a nurse refresher?

To thrive as a Nurse Refresher, you need updated clinical knowledge, current nursing licensure, and recent hands-on experience to safely re-enter the nursing workforce. Familiarity with the latest electronic health record (EHR) systems, medication administration protocols, and any required refresher course certifications is essential. Strong communication, adaptability, and a commitment to lifelong learning help Nurse Refreshers rebuild confidence and integrate smoothly with healthcare teams. These skills and qualifications ensure safe, competent patient care and a successful transition back into clinical practice.
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Infographic showing various Nurse Refresher job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 3% As Needed, 58% Full Time, 16% Part Time, and 23% Contract. Highlights an 98% Physical, and 2% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $78,408 per year, or $37.7 per hour.

Registered Nurse RN - General Medical - FT Nights

Northeast Georgia Health System

Gainesville, GA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 4 days ago


Northeast Georgia Health System rating

7.3

Company rating: 7.3 out of 10

Based on 155 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

305th of 887 rated healthcare providers


Job description

Job Category:
Nursing - Registered Nurse
Work Shift/Schedule:
12 Hr Evening - Morning
Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.
About the Role:
Job Summary
Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.
Minimum Job Qualifications
  • Licensure or other certifications: Graduated from an accredited nursing program and hold a current unencumbered license to practice as an RN in Georgia.
  • Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree. ADN or Diploma required
  • Minimum Experience: 0-1 year of RN experience - successful completion of new grad orientation or successful completion of an RN refresher course for acute care nurses
  • Other:

Preferred Job Qualifications
  • Preferred Licensure or other certifications: National certification in clinical specialty as eligible.
  • Preferred Educational Requirements: BSN
  • Preferred Experience:
  • Other:

Job Specific and Unique Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
  • Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service
  • Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
  • Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
  • Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities
  • Transformational Leadership
    • Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and patient care
    • Makes recommendations for the improvement of clinical care and the health of the workplace
    • Developing the ability to change and demonstrate flexibility
    • Welcomes and participates in change initiatives
    • Engages and builds respectful and collaborative relationships among colleagues and other disciplines that contributes to a healthy work environment
    • Serves as an engaged member of a team supporting colleagues in service to patients and families
    • Participates in interdisciplinary rounds as department requires
    Exemplary Professional Practice
    • Applies basic nursing knowledge and skills within the framework of the organization's professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
    • Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into
    consideration the individualized needs of the patient
    • Consistently documents in the patient and unit record according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and regulatory patient care requirements
    • Seeks guidance, asks clarifying questions, and speaks up for safety to continuously improve nursing practice
    • Develops critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
    • Demonstrates knowledge of Sister Simone Roach's theory by incorporating the Seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity in caring for patients and families
    • Demonstrates knowledge of principles of adult learning (and/or teaching children) and applies in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff
    • Provides detailed and appropriate teaching to patients and families to meet regulatory requirements and effectively prepare them for the episode of care as well as transitions from one level of care to another
    • Develops delegation skills as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
    • Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way by integrating knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum
    • Develops a plan to connect the patient and family to the appropriate community resources to meet their post-acute care needs in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team
    • Responsible for conducting medication cross-checks to maintain patient safety and identify potential diversion activities
    • Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction
    • Creates a caring and compassionate environment for patients, families, and colleagues utilizing the Communicate with HEART tools
    • Identifies ethical situations within patient care or the workforce and seeks assistance
    • Develops the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates safety behavior and error prevention tools
    • Accepts assignments that gradually increase patient load and complexity
    New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement
    • Actively engages in clinical development through the New Graduate Nurse Residency Program
    • Requests opportunities to learn safe, accountable, and autonomous practice from more experienced nurses
    • Routinely uses reflective practice to analyze situations and seeks feedback from peers, preceptors, and unit leader around performance
    • Demonstrates enthusiasm around continuous learning
    • Identifies and creates a plan for the continuation of learning and development
    • Identifies opportunities for improvement in the clinical area
    • Identifies patient and family needs for education and provides basic education to support the episode of care
    • Demonstrates a basic understanding of research, how it affects practice, and who/what resources are available to assist in providing evidence-based care
    Structural Empowerment
    • Demonstrates commitment to the QUEST for Excellence goals and values of patient, hospital, community, and nursing profession through cost containment measures, maintaining confidentiality, adherence to organizational policies and procedures, and ensuring patient safety
    • Demonstrates appropriate ethical decision-making
    • Make the safety of our patients and staff the #1 priority in all the work that we do; utilizes Error Prevention Tools
    • Demonstrates a passion for excellence by fostering a culture of transparency and open communication to improve processes
    • Demonstrates respectful compassion through an awareness of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment
    • Cares for patients and self by planning a work schedule that supports safety, worked hours, and healthy lifestyle
    • Demonstrates an understanding of unit-based selfcare activities
    • Communicates with management any safety hazards in the workplace
    • Demonstrates an understanding of organizational workplace violence reduction strategies
    Empirical Outcomes
    • Demonstrates knowledge of how clinical practice impacts quality, patient safety, and satisfaction outcomes
    • Demonstrates responsible stewardship by being fiscally responsible and managing available resources

Physical Demands
  • Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
  • Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
  • Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time
  • Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time
  • Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time
  • Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time
  • Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time
  • Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

Working at NGHS means being part of something special: a team invested in you as a person, an employee, and in helping you reach your goals.
NGHS: Opportunities start here.
Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.

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About Northeast Georgia Health System

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Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is a not-for-profit community health system dedicated to improving the health and quality of life of the people of Northeast Georgia. Through the services of a medical staff of more than 800 physicians, the residents of Northeast Georgia enjoy access to the state’s finest and most comprehensive medical services. It is our mission to improve the health of our community in all we do.

Industry

Health care and social assistance

Company size

5,001 - 10,000 Employees

Headquarters location

Gainesville, GA, US

Year founded

1951