Nurse Extern - Summer 2026 - Founders 10 Advanced Medicine Unit at HUP

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Founders 10 is a dynamic 25 bed medical/telemetry unit. The patient population is comprised of various diagnosis including Hypertension, COPD, Heart Failure, Diabetes, Kidney/Liver Disease, Sepsis, and Pulmonary Disorders. Apply now!

JOB SUMMARY

The nurse extern is a participant in a summer program for nursing students. The nurse extern program is designed to provide the nursing student with an opportunity to strengthen and reinforce their knowledge and skill in the practice of nursing under direct supervision of a registered nurse preceptor to ease their transition to practice. The nurse extern will follow their preceptor's work schedule and will assist in the provision of nursing care for that nurse's patients. Additionally, nurse extern will attend 8 didactic educational sessions during their rotation.

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Accountabilities

• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse extern demonstrates awareness of the use of data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse extern evaluates and integrates best current evidence with preceptor clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Leadership: The nurse extern observes collaboration and the application of innovative, systems thinking used to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine
• Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse extern recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Professionalism: The nurse extern demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning and adherence to American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Safety: The nurse extern minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Teamwork: The nurse extern effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• Technology/Informatics: The nurse extern utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization

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UPHS Organizational Behavioral Competencies

Competency Level 1

• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Patient/Customer Focus: Building strong patient/customer relationships and delivering patient centric solutions.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness: Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity.
• Values Differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Using thought, knowledge, logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions.

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QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Experience

• H.S. Diploma/GED
• Bachelor's Degree Nursing And
  • Completion of 1 med/surgical clinical rotations, and are entering their final year of their nursing program.
  • Maintain a GPA of at least 3.0

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Licenses, Registrations, and Certifications

• BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider, as per the American Heart Association

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Skills and Abilities

• Excellent Customer Service Skills

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Standard Work Environment

• Technician Environment (IT Tech)

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Physical Demands

Activity Levels

Never / Rarely (0–10%) | Occasional (11%–35%) | Frequent (36%–70%) | Constant (70% plus)

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, and ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
• Fine Manipulation: Able to manipulate objects while maintaining a grasp at all times
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
• Keyboard operation: Amount of time typing on computer keyboard
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Repetitive Foot Control: For example as when using sink pedals or driving
• Repetitive Use of Hands: The act of repeating the same hand motion
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time
• Sitting: Remaining in a position in which one's weight is supported by one's buttocks rather than one's feet and one's back is upright for sustained periods of time
• Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another

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Lift/Carry

(Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position)

• Sedentary: 5 pounds and under
• Light: 6–10 pounds
• Moderate: 11–49 pounds
• Heavy: 50 pounds and over

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Push/Pull

(Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force or to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects)

• Sedentary: 5 pounds and under
• Light: 6–10 pounds
• Moderate: 11–49 pounds
• Heavy: 50 pounds and over

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Specific Needs

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound
• Seeing: Vision for near, far, peripheral, depth, and color
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Driving or Equipment Operation: Driving a car, van, cart, or truck and/or operating heavy equipment

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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