Drexel Co Op Level 2 Students please apply for Fall -Winter 2026 to 2027

About the role

The Student Nurse/ Co-Op (Level 2) plays a crucial role in the healthcare team, interacting with patients at the most intimate level and assisting in the delivery of quality care.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a genuine care for the patient, e.g., active listening and responding, gentle approach to providing care, knock then identify yourself before entering a patient's space, provide timely information to patients in a caring manner
• Ensures an individualized approach to care to include cultural sensitivities, anticipates patient needs based on dialogue and observation
• Participates in RN/CNA handoffs and unit huddles
• Gathers information from caregivers, nurses, or physicians about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities
• Demonstrates flexibility/change in assignments based on patient acuity and unit needs
• Demonstrates support of quality and safety measures in the work environment, e.g., demonstrated support of the unit's Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) goals
• Ensures actions and behaviors demonstrate support in creating a positive, caring and healing patient environment
• Reports findings to nurse concerning the patient and or family which may impact patient care
• Timely notification and escalation of data or clinical data/information, including clinical emergencies
• Delegates tasks appropriately and also receptive to delegation from healthcare team
• Aids in assessment, identifies the patient per hospital policy before carrying out functions, assists with data collection for nursing history and physical, e.g., vital signs, ht. wt, blood sugar results, functional status and communicates changes to the RN in a timely fashion
• Participates in respectful communication with patients, families and co-workers, provides patient and family information to the registered nurse for coordination of care and discharge planning
• Observes skin changes and reports discoloration, abrasions, infestations or skin breakdown
• Plays a role in planning, assists in setting mutually agreed upon realistic individual patient goals, integrates the RN’s directions re: the patient’s plan of care into the care given to the patient, gives RN report before the end of the shift regarding the patient’s response to the plan of care issues, and at various times during the shift to report unusual findings e.g., abnormal blood sugar results, vital sign changes, pain etc.
• Participates in multidisciplinary rounds on the patient care unit, performs patient care rounds per unit policy, participates in staff and unit council meetings, reinforces health care instruction to patients according to the directions of the RN, consistently focuses on improving the patient experience in collaboration with the care team
• Assists in intervention, assists patient in their independence (when appropriate), preserves the patient's dignity while providing care, answers patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs, documents and reports interventions and observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses, demonstrates adherence to infection prevention policy and protocols, follows standard precautions and any other isolation precautions as dictated by the patient’s condition, maintains a safe environment and protects the patient from injury by observing the patient who may be at risk for falls, confusion, disorientation, wandering or suicidal behaviors follows Constant Observation Policy, applies, monitors and documents patients in restraints per policy and per medical order, demonstrates safe patient handling skills, following policy and using safe patient handling equipment, observes, monitors and documents behavior/health state and responses to therapy, temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, height and weight, intake and output, bowel and bladder function checks, pain, performs or assists the patient with activities of daily living such as bathing, (bed, tub, shower, or sitz) grooming, eating, feeding, range of motion, ambulating, transferring and oral hygiene, participates in the prevention and of skin breakdown, maintains turning and offloading, applies current accepted methods of heat and cold therapy as directed by the nurse, provides for the patient’s oral dietary needs using currently accepted methods (special swallowing precautions), provides for the elimination needs by giving a bed pan, urinal, emptying urinary and or bowel appliances or implementing the bowel program under the direction of the RN, applies urosheath/condom catheter, administers cleansing enemas as ordered, assists with colostomy irrigations and vaginal irrigations, performs post mortem care, assists the physician to perform physical exams, assists with oxygen therapy only and does not regulate the flow of oxygen, encourages the use of the pulmonary toilet by using the incentive spirometer, coughing, turning and deep breathing

Qualifications

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
• Matriculated in an accredited BSN Nursing Program; minimally completed the nursing foundations/fundamentals clinical course with a 3.0 GPA overall and within the Nursing major