Mercy Northwest Arkansas Summer 2025 Nurse Extern Program

Are you interested in gaining more clinical experience during your school break while earning extra money?

If the answer is yes, Mercy's extern program may be just what you are looking for. Our Externs will have the opportunity to gain additional preceptor clinical experiences at Mercy NWA (Rogers) hospital and be paid at an hourly rate while doing so.

Program Details

• Duration: 8 weeks, June 2nd-August 1st

Our Summer Extern Program offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable clinical experience and earn extra money.

Benefits of Participating

• Better understand the nurse role in an acute care facility
• Build more confidence in providing direct and indirect patient care
• Engage in additional clinical preceptor time to increase approved nursing skills under the direction of your preceptor:
• IV therapy
• Foley care
• NG tube care and tube feeding
• ostomy care
• POC, phlebotomy and specimen collection
• simple dressing changes
• Participate in head-to-toe assessment
• Trach care

About Us

Compassion and professionalism go hand-in-hand with us. Having a positive outlook and a strong sense of advocacy is in perfect step with our mission and vision. We're also collaborative and unafraid to do a little extra to deliver excellent care – that's just part of our commitment.

Mercy has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.