Student Nurse Extern I - Gastroenterology Clinic at Eastowne

UNC Health • Chapel Hill, NC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Student Nurse Extern I (SNE I) is a temporary, full-time role in the UNC Gastroenterology Clinic at Eastowne, offered as part of the Student Nurse Extern Program from May 24 through July 31, 2027. The program provides prelicensure nursing students with an immersive clinical experience to strengthen foundational nursing education and support professional role socialization. The SNE I works as a member of the patient care team alongside an RN partner, within the Nursing Assistant I scope of practice. This externship is not an extension of school clinicals; activities such as IV or oral medication administration, assessment, documentation, and NGT or Foley insertion are not permitted when they are skills performed under a clinical instructor during school clinicals.

The extern applies concepts learned in their nursing program while providing routine direct and indirect patient care in a clinic, hospital, or home health setting. All work is performed under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or provider. The assigned department’s Patient Services Manager or designated Education Leader is the reporting contact, and the RN partner supports learning and performance of nursing care activities in complex and non-complex situations. The position is onsite in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, scheduled as a day job for 40 hours per week, at $18.00 per hour.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED; a higher-level degree may satisfy this requirement.
• Current enrollment in an accredited prelicensure nursing program, with anticipated graduation within 12 months of the start of the externship.
• Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Fluent verbal and written English.
• Ability to organize and prioritize assignments in the delivery of patient care.
• Attain and maintain unit-specific competencies.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to lift and carry 40–50 pounds, including pushing or pulling patients on a bed or stretcher and assisting with lateral transfers.
• Frequent to continuous standing and walking.
• May be required to kneel, bend, squat, and perform CPR.

Responsibilities

• Observe, collect, and document patient information while providing care, and promptly report significant changes in a patient's condition to a registered nurse or provider.
• Participate in identifying and reporting patient safety issues collaboratively.
• Assist patients and families with admission, orientation to the hospital, clinic, or home health experience, and discharge.
• Provide care and treatments according to the plan of care, including measuring vital signs, height, and weight; collecting specimens; skin preparations; catheter care; capillary blood glucose checks; simple wound care; range-of-motion exercises; postural drainage; and supportive one-to-one interactions with patients and families.
• Provide personal care for routine activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, feeding, and assisting with ambulation.
• Provide indirect care, including cleaning the work area, changing linens, restocking supplies, cleaning or sterilizing instruments, transporting patients, supplies, or specimens, assisting with orientation of new employees and students, and performing routine clerical functions.
• Reinforce routine teaching provided by a registered nurse or provider and document the patient's understanding of instructions.
• Assist providers and other healthcare providers with routine examinations and procedures, and obtain equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• In psychiatric settings, support reality orientation and behavior modification plans or therapy; provide informal support to patients and families; verbally de-escalate potentially aggressive patients; assist with physical management of aggressive or out-of-control patients; facilitate age-appropriate play for children; and monitor therapeutic milieu activities to help meet patients' emotional and safety needs.

Benefits

• UNC Health benefits are referenced for this State position. Employees of another North Carolina agency who participate in TSERS or the ORP may be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED