Student Nurse Externship Depaul Hospital

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis

Regular

Job Highlights:

• Improves confidence at the bedside
• Establishes a pathway for graduate nurses to enter specialty, procedural, post-acute and ambulatory care settings
• Provides the opportunity for 1:1 clinical training
• Increases knowledge of hospital practice and policy
• Grows nursing skill sets, including IV start, medication administration and catheter care

Requirements

• Completion of first clinical rotation
• Current enrollment in an accredited school of nursing

Availability

• PRN

Job Summary:

Under supervision and in collaboration with other health care professionals, assists in performing a variety of nursing care services for patients.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Completes patient care tasks based on skills deemed competent in nursing school under direction of RN.
• Contributes to quality care and safety by assisting and performing procedures such as performing dressing changes, enemas, ostomy care, toileting, turning, cough and deep breathing, catheter care, collection of biological specimens, measuring and recording intake and output of fluids.
• Contributes to achievement of exceptional health care by functioning as a member of the team as measured by active participation in department initiatives, unit meetings, committees and special projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Informs licensed nurse of any changes in patient condition/needs, of patient complaints, and of patient/significant other educational needs.
• Stocks and maintains supplies and equipment in keeping with patient care needs and cost containment. Utilizes time and supplies economically and conscientiously.
• Contributes to safety and quality care by relaying information via charting and communicating to team members.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Prepares patients for discharge and accompanies them upon dismissal as indicated.
• Creates a positive patient experience by assisting patients with their activities of daily living including assisting with baths, ambulating, feeding, skin care, personal and oral hygiene and making occupied and unoccupied beds as measured by patient satisfaction quality audits and direct observation.
• Orients new patients and significant others to the nursing unit.
• Contributes to overall quality and safe care for patients by answering patients’ calls for help, taking their vital signs, and monitoring their behavior and physical condition for progress or deterioration as measured by patient satisfaction, quality audits, direct observation.
• Contributes to exceptional patient satisfaction by establishing a compassionate environment, timely responses to patients' needs, open communication and providing emotional and psychological support.

EDUCATION

• Current enrollment in an accredited school of nursing and completion of first clinical rotation

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Occasional bending, stooping, crawling, kneeling, sitting, squatting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional use of vision to judge distances and spatial relationships.
• Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent reaching, gripping, and keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional lifting/moving patients.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Occasional driving.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

Licenses / Certifications:

Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA), FUTURE - Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) within 90 days - American Heart Association (AHA)

Work Shift:

PRN / Per Diem Shift (United States of America)

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