Student Nurse Intern
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Job Description
About the Company:
Phelps Health is a hospital and healthcare system located in small-town Missouri, employing 2000 individuals. They emphasize team growth and providing opportunities to excel in healthcare.
Job Description:
This is a Student Nurse Intern position at Phelps Health, working under the supervision of a licensed nurse. The intern will perform various duties in the treatment and care of patients.
Key Responsibilities:
• Direct Patient Care:
• Assisting with daily hygiene (bathing, hair care, oral hygiene, grooming, skin care).
• Assisting with physical activity (re-positioning, ambulating, ROM, transfer techniques).
• Meeting nutritional needs (preparing patients for meals, assisting with feeding, recording intake, complying with dietary restrictions).
• Collecting specimens, performing vital signs, and documenting intake and output.
• Performing sitz baths, postmortem care, ted hose/sequential application, K-pads, ice packs, and binder application.
• PI Initiatives: Serving in a lead role for PI initiatives and encourages/supports employee involvement and teamwork for PI initiatives.
• Technical Procedures & Nursing Interventions: Performing technical procedures and nursing interventions for which credentialing exists; practicing within the allowed policy.
• Communication: Communicating closely with the patient’s primary nurse.
• Monitoring and Assistance: Maintaining and monitoring oxygen therapy, inserting and removing urinary catheters, discontinuing intravenous therapy, performs nasopharyngeal suctioning, performs dressing changes, performs wound care and skin management interventions.
• Assessment: Conducts patient assessments and reviews with primary nurse.
• Other duties: Continuous passive range of motion, Intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, NG tube insertion and maintenance.
• Education: Educates patient and family in conjunction with primary nurse
• Mentorship: All clinical skills will be performed in conjunction with the mentoring nurse
• Observation and Reporting: Notifying the appropriate licensed nurse immediately of any changes in patient condition or patient/family complaints/concerns.
• Documentation: Documenting activities related to patient care in the Medical Record and other designated forms, ensuring accuracy and appropriateness of the documentation.
Qualifications:
• Education: Currently enrolled in a School of Nursing or an individual who has completed a nursing program but does not meet licensing requirements.
• Experience: Entry-level, no prior experience required.
• Certification/License: Not applicable.
Physical and Mental Requirements:
The role requires considerable mental concentration, frequent heavy lifting and turning, and nearly constant walking. It also involves carrying, pushing, pulling, stooping, crouching, twisting, and reaching.
Working Conditions:
The position involves frequent exposure to infectious disease, radiation, anti-neoplastic agents, and hostile persons at times. Frequent exposure to communicable disease via blood and other body fluids.
