EFFINGHAM, Ill. — HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital recently welcomed a class of 15 student nurse interns this summer to the hospital. The summer nurse intern program is designed for nursing students with at least one clinical semester completed. This paid internship allows the students to get real-life experience as a nurse by shadowing nurses in all areas of the hospital to get a better idea where they want to work after graduation. The nurse interns are from multiple nursing schools including Eastern Illinois University, Kaskaskia College, Lake Land College, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, University of Illinois and University of Missouri-Columbia.
Front row, left to right: Ella Jimenez, Cairra Leasher, Joanna Spicer, Corrine Coad, Lucy Chapman, Kaitlyn Ochs and Hannah Bates.
Back row, left to right: Anna Oliver, Emma Meinhart, Megan McMahon, Alisha Waugh, Alexis Will, Madison Blake, Reagan Westendorf and Mary Sporleder.
For more information about a career at HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, visit careers.hshs.org.
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About Hospital Sisters Health System
HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Effingham is part of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a Catholic health care ministry founded in 1875. Dedicated to our Mission to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through high-quality Franciscan health care, HSHS clinicians provide exceptional care centered on the whole person. Based in Springfield, Illinois, HSHS employs more than 11,000 colleagues who provide care in 13 acute-care, children’s and critical-access hospitals and home health and hospice programs in Central and Southern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. HSHS is aligned with more than 1,000 primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners through its owned affiliates HSHS Medical Group and Prairie Cardiovascular and its partnership with Prevea Health. For more information about HSHS, visit hshs.org.