UTMB Professional Student Nurse
About The Position
The Professional Student Nurse is a senior-level nursing student currently enrolled in a baccalaureate degree nursing program. Under the guidance and supervision of a clinical instructor, preceptor, or facility-employed registered nurse, the student supports patient care activities. The role requires the student to work within their skill level and scope of responsibility while seeking learning opportunities and developing professionally. The work takes place in a comfortable indoor environment, where noise, odors, cramped workspaces, or fumes may sometimes cause discomfort. The role can involve moderate to extreme physical effort, including walking, standing, squatting, reaching, pushing, pulling, performing CPR, and lifting materials, equipment, or patients. Lifting may involve heavy or awkward loads over 50 pounds. Adequate vision, hearing, speech, and sense of touch are needed to perform tasks and communicate accurately. Focused attention and alertness are required. Occupational exposures may include communicable diseases, bloodborne pathogens, radiation, hazardous medications, and disoriented or combative patients. Shift work, standby duty, and extended shifts may be required when deemed necessary by nursing leadership. The role uses standard patient-care supplies and equipment, patient lift and transport devices, mechanical devices, standard hospital office equipment, and point-of-care testing processes.
Requirements
- Must be a second-semester UTMB School of Nursing student to apply.
- Completion of two semesters of an accredited baccalaureate degree nursing program and current enrollment in nursing school.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Work within the limits of personal skill level and scope of responsibility.
- Adequate vision, hearing, speech, and sense of touch to perform tasks and communicate accurately.
- Ability to perform the physical demands described, including lifting loads that may exceed 50 pounds.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and record temperature, pulse, blood pressure, blood glucose, and other vital signs; report variances or changes in patient status to registered nurse staff.
- Assist patients with activities of daily living, personal hygiene, and physical care needs.
- Assist with admissions, transfers, and discharges; perform and document general therapeutic measures; and perform delegated unit housekeeping.
- Use hospital computerized systems according to hospital policy and unit needs.
- Observe patients and record responses to medications and treatments, reactions, and significant occurrences; report changes to registered nurse staff.
- Identify health-teaching needs, provide health teaching, and assess health and illness practices and environmental influences on health status.
- Provide direct patient care under the direct supervision of a registered nurse.
- Monitor and document patient conditions and report findings and abnormalities to a registered nurse.
- Provide input for plans of care and assist registered nurses in determining healthcare needs.
- Complete annual mandatory training and attend unit-based in-services and departmental meetings.
- Ensure activities performed do not exceed personal skill level or scope of responsibility.
- Seek and participate in available learning opportunities.
- Demonstrate competency in point-of-care testing and related quality requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
