Student Nurse Summer Fellowship

Nebraska Methodist Hospital•Omaha, NE

20h

About The Position

Nebraska Methodist Health System is proud to offer a comprehensive Student Nurse Summer Fellowship for senior-level nursing students graduating between December 2026 and May 2027. The program is designed to support a smooth transition into safe, competent, and professional practice. Through a structured and collaborative model, fellows participate in job shadowing, precepted clinical experiences, informal mentoring, and guided debriefing sessions to help build confidence and clinical readiness. The fellowship is designed to provide students the opportunity to: Work one-on-one with experienced nurses in a variety of settings across the continuum of care. Develop clinical skills through real world, hands-on experience. Gain confidence and insight into interdisciplinary teamwork and the collaborative dynamics of patient care. Immerse yourself in our hospital culture, where support, learning, and compassion guide every interaction. This 8-week program will run May 18, 2026 - July 10, 2026. Applications due February 15, 2026. Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs, providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring. For additional information contact [email protected].

Requirements

Junior or Senior level of a Post-Secondary Nursing Program required.
Demonstrate effective communication skills required.
Ability to demonstrate initiative, teamwork, and flexibility required.

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred.
CNA, CMA, SNA or SNT experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.
Gives individualized customer service/patient care.
Exhibits excellent interpersonal relations with patients, co-workers, physicians, and guests to ensure effective communications.
Responds to patient needs promptly and courteously.
Obtains feedback from patients and visitors regarding their hospital experience.
Communicates patient issues to the appropriate staff.
Maintains a positive attitude while responding to requests in a timely and accurate manner.
Communicates with other members of the health care team (food service, secretaries, housekeeping, etc.) as indicated.
Actively participates in report process.
Completes clinical activities identified in the patient's plan of care to meet patients' comfort/activity/sleep needs and other clinical patient needs as delegated by professional staff.
Reports patient comfort needs to nurse in a timely manner.
Ensures that skin is clean and dry.
Reports any noticed skin changes.
With oversight and/or direction provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living).
With oversight and/or direction provides assistance with repositioning, turning and chair transfers.
With oversight and/or direction assists as necessary with ambulation.
With oversight and/or direction completes vital signs per patient's plan of care.
With oversight and/or direction weighs patients per patient's plan of care.
With oversight and/or direction reinforces patient education.
Provides transportation assistance.
Reports any variation from patient's plan of care to professional staff.
Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspaper, mail.
Documents all data collected, in Cerner and/or on worksheets, accurately, completely, and in a timely manner to provide an accurate record of patient activities and response to activities.
Documentation is completed in an ongoing basis prior to end of shift.
Documentation reflects patient's responses to activities according to patient's plan of care.
Documentation reflects care delivered.
Provides activities to contribute to a safe, efficient, effective and sanitary patient care environment.
Completes daily room cleaning according to established procedures for high dusting, vacuuming, mopping hard surface floors, disinfecting vertical surfaces, and spot cleaning vertical surfaces.
Keep rooms neat and tidy, free of clutter.
Removes trash and soiled linen from room each shift and as needed.
Maintains patient environment, such as spills and room temperature, or actively utilizes Integrated Services team to do so properly.
Distributes linens to servitors’ per par levels.
Straightens and restocks patient care areas per par levels.
Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspapers, mail, watering plants.
Consistently recognizes and utilizes measures to provide for safe, efficient, patient care and work environment.
Answers Call Lights in a timely manner and response to the patient request and/or relays request to appropriate resource when necessary.
Performs other duties as delegated/under the direction of the professional staff.
Ensures coverage of all duties when self or other staff are off the nursing unit.
Assists other team members when own work is complete.
Appropriately reports incidents.
Utilizes Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions infection control techniques correctly and consistently.
Directly responsible to the licensed nurse and assists in the care of the patient by performing activities delegated by the license nurse based on task, circumstance, person, communication and supervision.