Student nurse extern/intern

[jorie1977]

HI,

Hello everyone, My name is Marjorie and I happily finished my first semester of nursing school. Woo hoo!! I really didnt think it was going to be so hard but I made it!! Im on to my second semester and i wanted to know how i would go about finding an internship for this summer. I was told by upperclassmen in my school to start looking for internships for this summer now in january but Im not having any luck. Im from NYC. Can anyone give me any tips?

thanks,

Marjorie

[chorkle]

Jorie--

Lived in NYC once, a very long time ago; not familiar w/ current practices in your area. (I'm assuming you're in NS in NYC area.)

Sometimes, student nurse externships are listed on-line as if they were regular job openings--i.e., find a hospital you're interested in, look up their HR job openings, on-line, & poke & browse around.

Actually, I would say, poke & browse around--and ASK, ASK, ASK, everywhere & from everywhom you can think of.

Hope this generates some ideas, some approaches.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

In my area externships (which are for students - internships are for people who have graduated nursing school and are getting training for their first job) are not listed on the websites, and are mostly discovered by calling HR and asking if they have any. They can be hard to find right now, but don't let that discourage you. Good luck!