Nurse Extern I (St. Peters)

Under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, performs those functions not requiring expert nursing skill or judgment. This includes patient care, reporting patient attitudes, conditions or unusual circumstances to nurse in charge, maintaining equipment and pristine units. The Nurse Extern I is responsible for providing direct patient care activities appropriate to training and competency for assigned patients with direct supervision of RN, strengthening self-confidence, learning various disease processes, interacting with physicians and other *****care providers, expanding clinical knowledge and skills, familiarizing themselves to the hospital environment, gaining more clinical experience and learning more nursing procedures, assisting RN/LVN in completing tasks that support patient care activities, completing patient care activities as assigned while promoting excellent patient satisfaction and outcomes, establishing criteria for employment of nursing students, working under the guidelines of RN with assigned patients in accordance with hospital guidelines, and defining the role of Nurse Externs.