Student Nurse Intern

Employment Type:Part timeShift:Rotating ShiftDescription:JOB SUMMARY:Mercy Medical Center will provide student nurses enrolled in an accredited nursing program the opportunity to partner with a Registered Nurse mentor to prepare them for future practice. The goal of this program is to provide nursing students the opportunity to increase their clinical competence, develop organizational skills, and explore nursing practice in various patient care settings. The partnership with the mentor provides a beneficial relationship for the student to work with the Registered Nurse as a professional role model.PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:Duties include completing a variety of activities and tasks comprising the care of patients and their families under the direct supervision of the nurse preceptor.Collaborates with the RN in data collection for patient admission, plan of care, and discharge instructions.Participates in the development and implementation of care plans and patient education.Performs and assists patients with activities of daily living (ADL). In doing so, performs bathing, positioning, skin care, ambulating, toileting, nutritional needs and assists with transportation.Performs procedures and treatments such as EKGs, preps, point of care testing, application and monitoring of patient's responses to restraints and constant observation.Performs, reports findings to the registered nurse and records in patients’ medical record, basic nursing care procedures such as activities of daily living, collecting routine specimens, vital signs, pulse oximetry, bladder scanning, intake and output, height and weight, monitoring patient response to restraints.Will be cognizant of the philosophy, standards, objectives and policies of the department and the hospital.REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:A Student Nurse enrolled in an accredited school of nursing, currently in good standing and who is entering junior or senior year, is required.Certified in CPR required and must be maintained.Work requires the ability to exchange information on factual matters. This type of interaction requires courtesy and tact when dealing with patients and their families, visitors and/or hospital staff.Work requires providing direct patient care to neonate, pediatric, adolescent, young adult, adult, and geriatric patients.WORKING CONDITIONS:Requires exposure to blood and various body fluids, which require caution and use of established safety guidelines and equipment.Ability to lift and move heavy objects/patients with or without reasonable accommodations.REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:Reports to the Nurse Manager or designee.Has no responsibility for the direct supervision of any other colleagues.Trinity Health's Commitment to Diversity and InclusionTrinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues at dozens of hospitals and hundreds of health centers in 22 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.Trinity Health's dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 94 hospitals, as well as 109 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2.5 million visits annually.Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $17.6 billion and assets of $24.7 billion, the organization returns $1.1 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians.Committed to those who are poor and underserved in its communities, Trinity Health is known for its focus on the country's aging population. As a single, unified ministry, the organization is the innovator of Senior Emergency Departments, the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care services — ranked by number of visits — in the nation, as well as the nation’s leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) based on the number of available programs. For more information, visit www.trinity-health.org at http://www.trinity-health.org/ . You can also follow @TrinityHealthMI on Twitter.