Nurse Extern

Job Summary

As a Nurse Extern you will develop your nursing skills through a partnership with an experienced Registered Nurse and gain hands on experience performing direct patient care.

Responsibilities

Assessment:
The nurse extern, under the direction of the registered nurse, collects comprehensive data pertinent to the healthcare consumer’s health and/or situation by providing an extraordinary patient experience, compassionate care and clinical excellence one patient at a time.
Diagnosis:
The nurse extern, under the direction of the registered nurse, analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnoses or the issues by providing an extraordinary patient experience, compassionate care and clinical excellence one patient at a time.
Outcomes Identification:
The nurse extern, under the direction of the registered nurse, identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation by providing an extraordinary patient experience, compassionate care and clinical excellence one patient at a time.
Planning:
The nurse extern, under the direction of the registered nurse, develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternative to attain expected outcomes by providing an extraordinary patient experience, compassionate care and clinical excellence one patient at a time.
Implementation:
The nurse extern, under the direction of the registered nurse, implements the identified plan by providing an extraordinary patient experience, compassionate care and clinical excellence one patient at a time.
Evaluation:
The nurse extern, under the direction of the registered nurse, evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes by providing an extraordinary patient experience, compassionate care and clinical excellence one patient at a time.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Light Work: Frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to10 lbs with a maximum lifting of 25 lbs.

Experience with nursing fundamentals in lab and/or clinical setting as evidenced by completed nursing fundamentals skill check-off.

Education 

• High School Diploma or GED (Required)
• Associate's Degree

Credentials 

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Work Schedule: Varies

Status:  PRN

Location: Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital

Location of Job: WV:Weston:Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital

Talent Acquisition Specialist: Tara D. Larew tara.larew@vandaliahealth.org