Student Nurse Extern - Summer

Position: Student Nurse Extern - Summer 2026
Part-time  
** Compensation:**  $20/hr  
** Days Worked
** Rotating schedule;
Weekend requirement  
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* Hours:

** 24hrs/week  
** Primary Location
** Main Hospital - Grand Rapids, MI
* Patient Care – The SNE provides direct patient care, as delegated by the RN. Patient care performed by an SNE includes, but is not limited to, the following:
* Collects and monitors data and reports physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual needs of the patient and families as directed by and in coordination with the patient’s assigned RN.
* Obtains and records vital signs using appropriate equipment and technique.
* Answers call lights in a timely, respectful manner
* Documents care in the EMR according to department policies, including content and timeliness of documentation.
* Provides input to the RN for use in an individualized plan of care for each patient
* Transports patients in a safe and timely manner to facilitate patient diagnostic testing and therapy sessions, as needed. Communicates with other team members in order to ensure continuity of care and coordination of services.
* Maintains the patient’s living environment in a clean, safe manner
* Assists with collection of quality data, as assigned by the RN, Nursing Supervisor, or Director of Nursing.
* Demonstrates appropriate use of all patient care equipment, in accordance with departmental policies.
* Activity/Comfort – Makes an occupied and unoccupied bed.
* Activity/Comfort
- Turns and positions patients in bed, ambulates and dangles a patient according to transfer requirements.
* Activity/Comfort – Transfers patients using the mode and level of assist indicated by care plan.
* Activity/Comfort – Positions/transfers a patient with imparted mobility.
* Activity/Comfort – Transports a patient using wheelchair and stretcher.
* Activity/Comfort – Performs passive range of motion and assists with active range of motion.
* Hygiene – Gives a patient a complete, partial, shower or tub bath, allowing patient to perform according to his/her functional or cognitive ability.
* Hygiene – Assists the patient as needed with shampoos, oral care, including denture, face and hand washing.
* Hygiene – Performs perineal care and indwelling urinary catheter care.
* Hygiene – Performs back and H.S. care.
* Hygiene – Changes a non-sterile and sterile dressing.
* Hygiene – Performs ileostomy/colostomy care.
* Hygiene – Assists with postmortem care.
* Hygiene – Performs clean and sterile oral, nasopharyngeal and tracheostomy suctioning.
* Nutrition – Passes trays, snacks, and water, feeds a patient, measures, and records intake from dietary trays.
* Nutrition – Inserts, irrigates, administers feeding through, and removes various feeding tubes as appropriate.
* Elimination – Places and removes a bedpan, fracture pan and urinal, and assists patient with using a bedside commode.
* Elimination – empties, measures, and records drainage from a urinary drainage bag, Jackson Pratt drain, Hemovac, and bile bag.
* Elimination – Participates in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of patient bowel program. Remove fecal impaction, inserts, and removes rectal tube, administers a cleansing and retention enema, and applies and removes fecal incontinence bag.
* Elimination
- Performs urinary catheterization, inserts foley under direct of RN and assists in the development of a bladder program for each patient.
* Provides education to patients regarding skin checks and pressure relief.
* Specimen Collection – Collects urine, sputum, and stool specimens, obtains wound cultures.
* Specimen Collection – Uses a glucometer to test blood glucose levels, tests urine for sugar, acetone, blood or pH and strains for kidney stones.
* Vital Signs/Measurement – Measures the following vital signs: oral and tympanic temperature, radial and apical pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and pain rating.
* Vital Signs/Measurement – Measures a patient’s weight using a standing, chair, sling, and bed scales
* Equipment
- Operates the electronic blood pressure cuff, IV pump, feeding pump, and pulse oximeter, sets up oxygen flow meter, provides oxygen therapy using nasal cannula and mask, assists patient with…