Student Nurse Intern
Are you applying to the internship?
Job Description
About Company and Job Description
Phelps Health is a 2000-employee-strong hospital and healthcare system serving the heart of small-town Missouri. They pride themselves on employee growth and opportunity, offering a supportive environment for those providing or supporting life-saving care.
This job description outlines the role of a Student Nurse Intern at Phelps Health. This is an entry-level position under the general supervision of a licensed nurse. The intern assists in the treatment and care of patients, performing various duties related to patient well-being.
Key responsibilities include:
• Direct Patient Care: Providing assistance with activities of daily living such as hygiene, physical activity, and nutritional needs. This includes bathing, grooming, repositioning, ambulating, feeding, and monitoring dietary restrictions.
• Monitoring and Data Collection: Collecting specimens, performing vital signs, documenting intake and output.
• Performing Technical Procedures: Administering sitz baths, postmortem care, applying ted hose and sequential devices, K-pads, ice packs, and binders.
• Participation in Quality Improvement: Serving in a lead role for PI initiatives and encouraging/supporting employee involvement and teamwork for PI initiatives.
• Performing Technical Procedures: Performing technical procedures and nursing interventions for which credentialing exists.
• Advanced Patient Care: Maintaining and monitoring oxygen therapy, inserting and removing urinary catheters, discontinuing intravenous therapy, performing nasopharyngeal suctioning, performing dressing changes, performing wound care and skin management interventions, conducting patient assessments and reviews with primary nurse, continuous passive range of motion, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, NG tube insertion and maintenance, educating patient and family in conjunction with primary nurse.
• Collaboration and Communication: Communicating closely with the patient’s primary nurse and notifying them of any changes in patient condition or concerns.
• Documentation: Accurately documenting patient care activities in the Medical Record, including vital signs, intake/output, meal consumption, and interventions.
Requirements:
• 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 experience required.
• Skills: The position requires considerable mental concentration, frequent heavy lifting, and nearly constant walking. The candidate must be able to carry, push, pull, stoop, crouch, twist, and reach.
Working Conditions: The role involves frequent exposure to infectious diseases, radiation, anti-neoplastic agents, and potentially hostile persons, as well as exposure to communicable diseases via blood and other body fluids.
