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Operating Room Internship

Excited about working in an operating room? Start your nursing career here.

If you’re a nurse interested in learning about operative specialty areas such as pediatrics or transplant, you’ll enjoy building your clinical competency on the job with our operating room internship. With no tuition costs, our internships give you the opportunity to develop and apply your clinical knowledge and skills while receiving a full salary and benefits.

Designed to prepare you for employment in an operative specialty area, this program combines educational programs and supervised clinical experience.

In return of your acceptance into the internship program, we ask for your signed commitment to remain an employee with us for two years following the completion of your internship. We hope you’ll decide to stay for many more.

Preceptors (teachers) provide clinical experience in areas including:

  • General surgery
  • Gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • Vascular
  • Urology
  • Transplant
  • Cardiac
  • Colon/Rectal
  • Neurosurgery
  • Plastic surgery
  • ENT
  • Eye
  • Orthopedics
  • Thoracic
  • Maxilofacial
  • Trauma

Your internship consists of two phases:

Phase I: Basic Operative Nursing (8 weeks)
Phase II: Specialty Specific Operative Nursing (18 weeks)

Requirements for participating in one of our internship opportunities include:
  • New or recent graduate of accredited nursing program
  • Current GPA and/or transcript
  • Two letters of reference from recent clinical instructors
  • Current BLS Provider
  • Temporary PA practice permit or successful completion of requirements for PA Registered Nurse Licensure or NCLEX-RN

To apply for an internship or find out about start dates, please contact Human Resources at 610-402-3260 or humanresources@lvh.org


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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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