Joint Commission assessed our hospital's level of performance on many different functional areas. Therefore, a score of 93 is a great feat for our hospital. Thanks for all your hard work over the past few months. New Extern Program New to Deaconess this year is the nurse extern program. The purpose of this program is to provide nursing students an opportunity to develop their clinical, time management, and critical thinking skills and to provide an opportunity to recruit nurses to Deaconess Hospital.
Nursing students apply for the program in the spring semester of their junior year.
Once selected, the nursing student begins an eight to twelve week program that includes partnering with nurses while working on assigned patient care units and attending weekly lectures on clinically related topics. Successful completion of the summer portion of this program makes each nurse extern eligible for a tuition waiver. The nurse externs also continue limited practice in the designated clinical areas throughout their last year of nursing school. This year nine externs were selected.