Summer Nurse Fellowship

Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?

At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Job Summary

Locations:

Methodist Hospital - 8303 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE

Methodist Women's Hospital - 707 N. 190th Plaza, Elkhorn, NE

Methodist Fremont Health - 450 E 23rd Street, Fremont, NE

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital - 933 E Pierce Street, Council Bluffs, IA

Work Schedule: 28 hours per week. Variable schedule to include a variety of shift types.

About the Program: Nebraska Methodist Health System is proud to offer a comprehensive Student Nurse Summer Fellowship for senior-level nursing students graduating between December 2027 and May 2028. 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 17, 2027 - July 9, 2027.

Applications due February 10, 2027.

Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs, providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring.

For additional information contact Methodist.Internship@nmhs.org.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

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.

Schedule

28 hours per week. Variable schedule to include a variety of shift types.

Job Description

Job Requirements

Education

• Junior or Senior level of a Post-Secondary Nursing Program required.
• BSN preferred.

Experience

• CN A, CMA, SNA or SNT experience preferred.

License/Certifications

• N/A

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Demonstrate effective communication skills required.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, teamwork, and flexibility required.

Physical Requirements

Weight Demands

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

Physical Activity

• Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
• Climbing
• Crawling
• Kneeling
• Sitting
• Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
• Balancing
• Carrying
• Crouching
• Distinguish colors
• Keyboarding/typing
• Lifting
• Pulling/Pushing
• Repetitive Motions
• Stooping/bending
• Twisting
• Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
• Grasping
• Hearing
• Reaching
• Seeing/Visual
• Speaking/talking
• Standing
• Walking

Job Hazards

• Not Related: - Electrical Shock/Static
• Rare (1-33%):
• Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc.)
• Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
• Occasionally (34%-66%):
• Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
• Equipment/Machinery/Tools
• Explosives (pressurized gas)
• Hazardous Drugs (exposure risks, personal protective equipment required)
• Frequent (67%-100%):
• Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
• Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
• Mechanical moving parts/vibrations

About Methodist:

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

Nebraska Methodist Health System is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by Federal, state or local law.