NAD 190 - Nursing Student Internship

Credit(s): 4
Lecture/Lab Contact Hours: 1, 3

This nursing student internship is a collaborative education experience that will enhance the development of their professional nursing role, critical thinking skills, and technical skills to help student nurses to begin to “think like a nurse.” Students have the opportunity to use previously learned nursing knowledge and skills in cooperating acute care facilities. The course will have a weekly online component that will discuss “thinking in action” topics related to safe patient care, patient outcomes, delivery of nursing care, assessment, documentation, inter-professional collaboration, communication, and evidenced based practice. The internship is designed to provide students with additional socialization into nursing opportunities and clinical practice in either medical-surgical nursing, psychiatric care, critical care, obstetrics, emergency care, perioperative care or pediatrics. The student will work along with a RN preceptor for approximately 24 hours a week for an eight-week commitment, during the summer between the first year and second year of the Associate Degree Nursing Program. The nursing student internship is an elective nursing course that will be either paid or unpaid based on the nurse intern program of cooperating acute care facilities. In addition to completion of the prerequisites, students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA, complete the nursing internship application, submit the application with two nursing faculty references, and complete selection interviews. The nursing internship has limited enrollment based on cooperating acute care facilities and how many nursing student interns they can accommodate. The selection process is 100% ownership of each facility. Those students selected will have additional requirements to complete, including facility orientations and preparation for the internship.
Applicable toward graduation at Sandburg where program structure permits:
Degree or Certificate: AAS, AGS and Certificates where applicable. (1.2)

Offered: Summer
Prerequisite(s): NAD 105, NAD 106, NAD 108, NAD 125, NAD 130, BIO 211, and BIO 212
General Education: Not Applicable