2027 Summer Nurse Externship
Paramus, NJFull-time$15.92/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Valley Hospital’s 2027 Summer Nurse Externship provides clinical experience, educational workshops, and exposure to nursing specialties. Externs assist professional staff with direct and indirect patient care and materials management and maintenance. The eight-week program assigns each extern to a specific unit, with opportunities to observe other units. Assignments may be inpatient or outpatient, and schedules vary by unit.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Experience Required
No required work experience specified.
Minimum Education Required
HS_DIPLOMA
License(s) Required
No
Expected Start Date
11/04/2026
Compensation
$15.92 - $15.92 / Hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Shift
Rotating
Job Description
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
To assist the professional staff by participating in direct and indirect patient care and materials management and maintenance as directed by the professional staff and in accordance with approved policies and procedures. To provide clinical experience, educational workshops and exposure to nursing specialties to the nurse extern.
Student Nurse Externs will be assigned to a specific unit for the entirety of the 8 week program. While we will do our best to accommodate unit preferences we cannot guarantee students will be placed on a unit of preference. Students will be informed of unit assignments shortly before the start of the externship program. Student Nurse Externs will have the opportunity to observe different units, other than their unit assignment, during the program.
8-week commitment
Program is set to begin late May and conclude in late July.
There is a possibility of inpatient or outpatient unit assignments.
Varying schedules of 8, 10, or 12 hour shifts. Dependent on unit assignments.
Weekend shifts may be required, depending on unit assignment
Vacation time will not be permitted during this 8-week period
EDUCATION:
High school diploma or equivalent required. Currently enrolled in a nursing program and will be completing their junior year as of May 2027 or have completed at least one direct patient care clinical rotation. Satisfactorily completed at least one clinical nursing course.
At this time, this position is only available to external candidates.
EXPERIENCE:
No previous experience required.
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Qualifications may vary depending on assigned area. Must be able to perform work accurately with attention to detail within specified time periods, handle frequent interruptions, and adapt to changes in workload and work schedule. Ability to work cooperatively with members of the healthcare delivery team, staff, and co-workers. Ability to set priorities, solve problems, and respond quickly to emergency requests. Ability to communicate effectively (orally and in writing) and assist in meeting the patient care needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Job Location
The Valley Hospital-Paramus
Shift
Day (United States of America)
Benefits
Medical/Prescription, Dental & Vision Discount Program (Full Time/Part Time Employees)
Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D(Full Time Employees)
Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Benefit Plans
Supplemental Voluntary Benefits ( e.g. Short-term and Long-term Disability, Whole Life Insurance, Legal Support, etc.)
6 Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off (varies), Wellness Time Off, Extended Illness
Retirement Plan
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Valley Health LifeStyles Fitness Center Membership Discount
Day Care Discounts for Various Daycare Facilities
EEO Statement
Valley Health System does not discriminate on the basis of ancestry, age, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, civil union status, color, creed, disability, domestic partnership, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, genetic information, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, marital status, medical condition or illness, mental or physical handicap, national origin, nationality, perceived disability, pregnancy, race, refusal to submit to genetic testing or make available results of such tests, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran’s status or any other protected basis, in accordance with all applicable Federal, State and Local laws. This applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, termination, layoff, compensation, benefits, social and recreational programs, and all other conditions and privileges of employment.
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
JR7139
Job Type
Full Time
How this job compares
Set against the 29,610 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$15.92/hr
- New Jersey median$33–40/hr395 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr13,032 hourly ranges
This rate, $15.92/hr, is 58% below the New Jersey median midpoint ($38/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Nurse hourly ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 654 open Nurse jobs in New Jersey and 29,610 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Atlantic Health System90 open
- Hackensack Meridian Health89 open
- BAYADA Home Health Care67 open
- Experience
- Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (12,254 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 9,257 of the 29,610 open Nurse jobs (31%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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