Nursing NA II Extern Program, Summer 2025, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

The Nurse Summer Externship Program at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist offers a nine-week paid opportunity for senior nursing students to gain valuable hands-on experience working alongside our experienced team in our five hospitals. This program serves as a significant stepping stone, helping senior nursing students enhance their clinical expertise as they prepare for their transition to become licensed registered nurses. 

Program Dates: May 19, 2025 – July 19, 2025

Application Deadline: October 20, 2024

 

Eligibility Requirements

• Nursing students entering their final year
• Rising senior enrolled in an accredited Associate or Bachelor of Science nursing program.
• Scheduled to complete Med/Surg clinical by Spring 2025.
• Must be listed as an NA I with the North Carolina Nurse Aide I Registry by January 31, 2025.
• Must have NA II listed on the North Carolina Board of Nursing by May 15, 2025.
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support AHA (BCLS) or American Red Cross BLS certification. 
• Must be available for full-time summer employment (3x12 hour shifts plus weekly 4-hour educational session or clinical observation), including rotating shifts, weekends, and holidays.

Program Benefits 

• Enhanced clinical competence while gaining self-confidence in a large academic learning health system. 
• Partnering with an experienced staff nurse who serves as a preceptor, mentoring in the assigned clinical areas. 
• Weekly four-hour educational sessions covering simulation and didactic elements, focused on the latest practices in nursing specialties.
• Additional shadowing opportunities in clinical areas of interest. 
• Paid employment for up to 40 hours per week.
• Opportunity for continued PRN employment as an NA II upon Extern program completion.

Your Impact on Patient Care

In addition to your involvement in our Nurse Summer Extern Program, the extern can expect to have the following responsibilities: 

1. Assist in implementing the nursing process by providing direct patient care to patients under the Registered Nurse’s (RN) direction.
2. Performs specific procedures accurately while being supervised by a Registered Nurse.
3. Establish and uphold a safe and therapeutic environment for patients, self, teammates, and facility.
4. Ensure complete, accurate, and timely communication of patient information.
5. Actively engage with leaders, teammates, patients, and family members in a practical, positive, and professional manner.
6. Demonstrate personal responsibility and initiative for performance, professional growth, and advancement.
7. Provide age/developmentally appropriate patient care in accordance with Age/Developmental Specific Care Guidelines for the specific age groups served.

 

Program Dates: May 19, 2025 – July 19, 2025

Application Deadline: October 20, 2024

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.