Externships

The Student Nursing Extern program at St. Francis is a comprehensive eight-week nursing experience each summer for externs to improve their technical skills and knowledge base.  At St. Francis, our goal for each Extern is to help them embrace our philosophy for quality outcomes in patient care while assisting the student towards self-actualization in nursing. The program consists of weekly meetings with the program coordinators and weekly educational offerings with most of the extern’s time being focused in the chosen clinical areas.

Externs are supervised by preceptors who are Registered Nurses. As part of the Student Nursing Extern Program, the extern will be paid as a St. Francis employee.

In order to be eligible for the Extern program, applicants must:

•  Be actively enrolled in a school of Nursing
  
•  Be a rising senior nursing student with a scheduled graduation date
  
•  Have successfully completed a nursing clinical course (i.e. Med-Surg Nursing)
•  Provide two recommendation letters from faculty members of a school of nursing; at least one must be clinical
  
•  Be available to attend required orientation dates
  
•  Be available for a 32-hour week for eight weeks commencing first date of externship
•  Provide a copy of your transcript with a minimum GPA of 2.75
•  Complete a St. Francis Nurse Extern program application and written essay
  

For more information or to apply for a Nurse Externship this summer, call 864-255-1856.