Extern RN
Bakersfield, CAJob$25–26.34/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Extern RN participates in a supportive residency with personalized attention and cross-training across nursing units. The role delivers individualized patient care in collaboration with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, including treatments, vital-sign monitoring, and patient and family education. The extern engages in an evidence-based residency program with clinical orientation, practice, and mentorship.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Extern RN, you will experience a dynamic and supportive residency, receiving personalized attention to foster long-term success and cross-training across our interconnected Nursing units.
Every day you will deliver individualized patient care by collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, administering treatments, monitoring vital signs, and educating patients and families, all while embracing varied nursing tasks.
To be successful in this role, you will actively engage in our comprehensive, evidence-based Residency Program, utilizing clinical orientation, practice, and mentorship. You will demonstrate a passion for learning and teamwork within a collaborative, patient-centered environment.
Job Requirements
Required
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Must be enrolled in and in good standing at school of nursing
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Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 229-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II NICU, cancer care, women’s health, and orthopedics. Additionally, Mercy Hospital Downtown & Mercy Hospital Southwest have been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. They are both Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Centers. Mercy Hospital Downtown offers the only inpatient Oncology Unit in Bakersfield while Mercy Hospital Southwest has the only Obstetric Emergency Department in Bakersfield.
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Pay Range
$25.00 - $26.34 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 28,870 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$25–26.34/hr
- California median$54–75/hr861 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr13,056 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $25.67/hr, is 59% below the California median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,274 open Nurse jobs in California and 28,870 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health243 open
- Kaiser Permanente176 open
- Dignity Health (this employer)69 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 (12,043 postings).
- Education
- 3,102 of the 28,870 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Nurse jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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