Student Nurse Extern - Summer

Student Nurse Extern - Summer 2026

Variable (United States of America)

Final date to receive applications - February 28th, 2026

Summer 2026 - Student Nurse Externship!

Begins May 18th – concludes last week of July 2026

Department Name
Inpatient Nursing Department

Employment Type

Part-time
Compensation:
$20/hr
Days Worked
Rotating schedule;
Weekend requirement
Hours:

24hrs/week
Primary Location
Main Hospital – Grand Rapids, MI

Summary:

SNEs provide important patient care within the Nursing Department. Under the direction of the registered nurse assigned to each patient, this non‑licensed team member assists with patient care and other department activities as outlined in this job description and communicates effectively with the RN responsible for each patient. Work performed by each SNE must support the mission, vision, and values of Mary Free Bed.

The externship also provides the opportunity to experience and be a part of excellent rehabilitation nursing and consider this specialty as a professional nurse.

Essential

Job Responsibilities:

• 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…