NUR 395 Student Nurse Externship
This elective course provides nursing students the opportunity to strengthen clinical skills acquired during the first year of nursing school through practice in a healthcare setting under the direct supervision of an experienced registered nurse. Skills will include assessment, clinical judgement, nursing interventions, and evaluation of patient outcomes while following the established policies and procedures and nursing standards of care. Students will also have an opportunity to enhance decision making, team work, inter-professional and intra-professional communication, and organizational skills. Students will collaborate with nursing faculty, their preceptor, and clinical agency personnel to assure that clinical objectives are met and program guidelines are followed.