Student Nurse Extern Program

Summer Nurse Extern Program Highlights

Nurse Extern Class 2007

Mayo Clinic Hospital is a 244-bed, multispecialty acute care facility. The Summer Nurse Extern Program provides clinical experiences in the following areas:

Emergency Department

Provides emergent care to patients of all ages, groups and socioeconomic backgrounds with a focus on medical, surgical, cardiac, stroke and transplant populations.

Intensive/Intermediate Care

Twenty-bed ICU/10-bed Intermediate Care Unit specialized units for medical and surgical patients who require intensive care including a variety of medical and surgical diagnoses, cardiac surgery, and heart, liver, pancreas, and renal transplant.

Intermediate Care/Transplant

Twenty-four-bed medical surgical/12-bed Intermediate Care Unit serving medical and surgical patient population with a focus on solid organ transplant. Intermediate care is a multispecialty unit with patients who require more monitoring than is available on the medical/surgical floors but do not require care in the ICU.

Orthopedics/Urology/Rehabilitation

Thirty-three medical/surgical beds and seven rehabilitation beds, specializing in the acute medical and post-operative care of patients with orthopedic and urologic surgery, and in the acute rehabilitative phase of recovery.

Medical/Surgical Care

Thirty-six-bed unit serves the medical/surgical population with an additional focus on Colorectal Surgery, Gynecological Surgery and Palliative Care. Comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary care is provided for geriatric, adult and occasionally adolescent patients.

Hematology/Oncology/Transplant

Thirty-bed medical/surgical unit, specializing in the care of hematology/oncology/bone marrow transplant patients.

Cardiac/Cardiothoracic Telemetry

Thirty-six-bed cardiovascular/telemetry unit, specializing in the care of patients with medical and surgical cardiac diagnoses, including heart transplant and patients with ventricular assist devices.

Neurosurgery/Neurology/ENT

Thirty-six-bed general medical/surgical unit specializing in neurosurgery, neurology and ENT diagnoses.

Note:

Telemetry is available to every patient on every acute care unit of Mayo Clinic Hospital.

Mayo Clinic Hospital utilizes bedside computers to access the electronic medical record for all nursing documentation.