Overview

Department: Telemetry Unit

Shifts Available: Days

Employment Type: PRN / Per Diem

Hours: 12-hour shifts

Location: St Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, MO

Make a meaningful impact every day. As an RN Student Extern, In this role, you'll provide compassionate, hands-on care to patients in a dynamic inpatient behavioral health setting. Working alongside an interdisciplinary care team, you'll play a key role in promoting excellent patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

Essential duties and responsibilities include - but are not limited to:

• The Student Extern is an adjunct to the patient care team.
• The extern performs at the level that has successfully been completed and passed in the clinical section at a local college.
• Under the general supervision of an RN the extern provides direct patient care in accordance with the established protocols, the skills they are able to perform are expanded.
• All newly hired externs will first function in the capacity of a nursing assistant, regardless of their nursing program clinical level.
• When the student has been cleared by the Supervisor, they may be moved to their appropriate skill level.

Qualifications

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING

1. Successfully completed the first semester of a nursing program.
2. Must be in good academic standing.
3. Current Basic Life Support Certification.
4. Certified Nursing Assistant preferred.

Employment Status

Full Time

Shift

Days

Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf