Nursing Student

Job Description

Nursing Student | Intermountain Health

The Tone:
This is a part-time role at St. Marys Regional Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, operating with 6 scheduled weekly hours. Intermountain Health is dedicated to providing high-quality patient care and fostering the growth of healthcare professionals. This position offers a vital opportunity for a nursing student to apply their foundational knowledge and clinical skills from a medical/surgical rotation in a real-world hospital environment. By directly supporting patient needs and assisting the nursing staff, this role is crucial for developing future Registered Nurses and ensuring compassionate, effective care within our facilities.

The TL;DR
• Role: Part Time
• Type: Part-time
• Location: Grand Junction, CO (On-site)
• Pay: $17.5 hourly
• Team: Reports to a Registered Nurse
• Mission: Support direct patient care and assist the healthcare team while progressing towards securing nursing licensure and future transition to a New Graduate Nurse Resident position.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Patient Support: Respond promptly to diverse patient care needs, including answering call lights, providing assistance with personal hygiene and nourishment, and accurately obtaining and documenting vital signs.
• Clinical Assistance: Assist the Registered Nurse with specific medical procedures such as the insertion, comprehensive care, and safe removal of Foley catheters and nasogastric tubes.
• Data Management & Assessment: Precisely check and document patient vitals, glucose levels, and input/output, ensuring all patient care documentation receives an additional signature from a Registered Nurse; also perform secondary assessments supplementary to the primary RN assessment.
• Collaborative Care: Communicate constructively, effectively, and in a timely manner with all members of the multidisciplinary care team, providing assistance to both nurses and physicians within your defined scope of practice and demonstrated competency.
• Safety & Education: Rigorously adhere to all infection prevention standards, actively contribute to achieving patient experience goals, and assist with patient transfers, admissions, and discharges in full compliance with safe patient handling principles, as well as support patient and family education regarding care plans.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently enrolled as a student in good standing within an accredited School of Nursing program, having successfully completed a minimum of one medical/surgical rotation.
• Experience: Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS-HCP) Certification is required upon hire, or must be obtained within 60 days of hire with prior approval.
• Skills: Nursing, Patient Care, Vital Signs, Patient Transfers, Patient & Family Education.
• Bonus: Preferred completion of all clinical coursework with the exception of the final/capstone course, and one or more years of previous experience in a healthcare setting.