Externship

Summer Student Nurse Externship Program

The MHA Organization for Nurse Executives and the MS Council of Deans & Directors of Schools of Nursing jointly sponsor the Summer Student Nurse Externship Program (Externship Program). The Externship Program is designed to:

• provide students in nursing with an opportunity to enhance previously learned skills under the supervision of experienced registered nurses in the healthcare setting;
• assist students of nursing to experience acceptance in a work situation appropriate to their potential as future registered nurses;
• prepare students to assume responsibilities of full-time employees with respect to performance requirements, policies, and procedures of a health care agency; and
• encourage retention of nursing graduates through provision of supplemental practice experience within the workplace.

The Externship Program is offered cooperatively between local hospitals and area schools of nursing throughout the state. For more details about the Externship Program please review the following

Program Guidelines
Program Check List

This year we are transitioning to web access of program materials. Deadline for submission of Program materials was February 1, 2010.

Approved Participating Hospitals for 2010 Summer Student Nurse Externship Program.

Approved Participating Schools for 2010 Summer Student Nurse Externship Program.

For questions about the Summer Student Nurse Externship Program please contact: