41 Surgical PCU Student Nurse - Patient Care Intern Progressive Care Program Jobs in Indianapolis, IN
IU Health is Hiring a Surgical PCU Student Nurse - Patient Care Intern Progressive Care Program Near Indianapolis, IN
Overview
Want to earn income and expand your learning experience hands-on while you complete your nursing degree? The Patient Care Intern Progression Program is designed for YOU!
The Patient Care Intern Progression Program helps student nurses on their pathway to becoming an RN while gaining hands-on patient care experience. IU Health provides these future nurses with learning, mentorship, and progression opportunities as they work toward their degree. In this role, you’ll work alongside other healthcare professionals to strengthen your skills in patient care, decision-making, and critical thinking.
The Surgical Progressive Care Unit (SPCU) at our magnet-designated University Hospital offers a fast-paced, encouraging learning environment where we embrace teamwork and collaboration with all disciplines of the patient’s care team. The monitored 34 bed unit serves a very diverse population of surgical oncology patients which include ENT/head & neck, Thoracic, Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, Urology, Colorectal and Plastic surgery.
This environment allows nurses to gain and improve advanced critical thinking skills and sharpen their hands-on expertise at the same time. SPCU care requires high attention to detail, a strong emphasis on quality and a foundation in evidence-based practice.
Our unit culture of compassion allows for a holistic delivery of care that is individualized based on the needs of our patients and their families.
Being an IU Health nurse means building a professional career crafted with competitive benefits, a culture that accepts your outstanding strengths, and supports your goals. Are you seeking an organization where you can engage expertly, develop clinical expertise, embrace learning, cultivate new relationships, and fuel your spirit of inquiry? If this, is you, Apply Now!
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- High School Diploma/GED or equivalent years of experience is required.
- Requires 0-3 years of relevant experience.
- Requires PCI to be actively enrolled and have completed 1 semester student nursing at an accredited nursing education program that is accredited by a national organization. For example, the Accreditation Commission For Education in Nursing (ACEN) and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
- Requires current Basic Life Support certification through the AHA or attainment at the completion of the IU Health PCA education program. Other advanced life support certifications may be required per unit/department specialty according to patient care policies.
- Requires knowledge of care appropriate to the age and developmental level of the patients served.
- Requires ability to apply the organization's personnel policies and procedures.
- Requires up to date knowledge of procedures and standards related to patient care activities.
- Requires proficiency in interpersonal and communication skills.
- Requires ability to maintain concentration when subjected to frequent and varied interruptions and variable noise levels.
- Requires ability to organize tasks and attend to details.
- Requires knowledge of procedures; equipment; software and standards related to patient care activities that non-licensed role perform (ie. PCI, PCA, PCR).
- Requires ability to perform physically demanding; repetitious movements.
- Requires knowledge of principles of infection control.
Job Summary
Intern
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
$70k-86k (estimate)
12/15/2023
06/02/2024
www.iumg.com
Indianapolis, Indiana
500 - 1,000
James Hagen
<$5M
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
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About IU Health
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