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Registered Nurse CPT positions let F-1 nursing students earn supervised clinical hours that count directly toward their degree requirements. Your DSO must authorize each CPT placement before you start, and the role must align with your program's clinical training curriculum. Hospital systems, long-term care facilities, and outpatient clinics all hire CPT nurses.
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Day Shift, 5x8hr - dayshift
Job ID
wd-JR141828
Posted
September 11, 2026
Registered Nurse - OR Internship Winter 2027
Join a team that delivers excellence.
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is home to nearly 23,000 colleagues who make up our talented, vibrant and diverse workforce.
Join our team and experience firsthand what it's like to be part of a healthcare organization that's nationally recognized, forward-thinking and offers plenty of opportunity to do great work.
Imagine a career at one of the nation's most advanced health networks.
Be part of an exceptional health care experience. Join the inspired, passionate team at Lehigh Valley Health Network, a nationally recognized, forward-thinking organization offering plenty of opportunity to do great work.
LVHN has been ranked among the "Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years. We're a Magnet(tm) Hospital, having been honored five times with the American Nurses Credentialing Center's prestigious distinction for nursing excellence and quality patient outcomes in our Lehigh Valley region. Finally, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg, Lehigh Valley Hospital- Hazleton, and Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono each received an 'A' grade on the Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group in 2020, the highest grade in patient safety. These recognitions highlight LVHN's commitment to teamwork, compassion, and technology with an unrelenting focus on delivering the best health care possible every day.
Whether you're considering your next career move or your first, you should consider Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Our Next Operating Room Course Will Begin in January 2027
The OR RN Internship is a full-time paid 26-week course designed to train the Graduate Nurse/Registered Nurse in the perioperative role in the Operating Room through didactic and preceptored clinical experiences in various surgical specialties and campuses. Responsibilities of the scrub and circulating nurse, basic principles of asepsis, ethical-legal aspects and the preparation, care and application of surgical supplies and equipment will be presented. Interns will have an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned in the clinical setting and have the experience and support to successfully complete the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses(AORN) Perioperative 101: A Core Curriculum. Clinical orientation success and departmental needs determine intern placement in a full-time position at a LVHN surgical campus.
Summary
Directs and manages the care of designated operative patients and performs an ongoing patient assessment, creates and maintains a safe environment, and implements and enforces all policies and procedures. Handles the instruments, supplies, and equipment necessary during the surgical procedure. Develops a plan of perioperative nursing care based on patient assessment including physical, psychosocial, cultural, growth, and development dimensions.
Job Duties
- Assists operating physician with surgical tasks such as homeostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning.
- Contributes to the overall care of the patient before, during and after surgery by using technical and mechanical functions.
- Performs circulating functions such as monitoring, recording, and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of the patient before, during, and after the procedure.
- Performs scrub functions such as the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure.
- Recognizes the need for and initiates collaboration/communication with physicians, interdisciplinary team members, and takes actions to proactively resolve patient needs.
- Inspects sterile items for integrity before opening or delivery to the sterile field and verifies the presence and appropriate color change of chemical indicators in all loads.
- Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation and analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
- Controls environment including temperature, provision of warm blankets, use of warm irrigation fluids, monitoring of the sensory environment, control traffic flow, and adheres to safety and sanitation policies.
Minimum Qualifications
- Specialized Diploma Nursing
- Less than 1 year Current operating room experience or completion of perioperative internship program.
- Ability to perform assessments and nursing functions as acquired in the basic nursing preparation program.
- Ability to plan, review, supervise, and inspect the work of others.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Minimum ability to circulate surgical procedures
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support - State of Pennsylvania
- RN - Licensed Registered Nurse_PA - State of Pennsylvania
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to scrub surgical procedures
- CNOR - Certified Nurse Operating Room CCICBPN - State of Pennsylvania
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. Examples: Push/pull patients on bed, stretcher (requires 29 lbs. push force), lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patient's weight. Frequent to continuous standing/walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. *Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.
Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Lehigh Valley Health Network is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with, and where applicable, in addition to federal, state and local employment regulations, Lehigh Valley Health Network will provide employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or other such protected classes as may be defined by law. All personnel actions and programs will adhere to this policy. Personnel actions and programs include, but are not limited to recruitment, selection, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, educational programs and/or social activities.
Lehigh Valley Health Network does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our job aliases, our employees or any other organization location. Lehigh Valley Health Network is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Location
Lehigh Valley Hospital- Cedar Crest
1200 S Cedar Crest Blvd, 18103-6202, Allentown, United States
Full-Time
Day Shift
Shift Details
Day Shift, 5x8hr - dayshift
Job ID
wd-JR141828
Posted
September 11, 2026
Registered Nurse - OR Internship Winter 2027
Join a team that delivers excellence.
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is home to nearly 23,000 colleagues who make up our talented, vibrant and diverse workforce.
Join our team and experience firsthand what it's like to be part of a healthcare organization that's nationally recognized, forward-thinking and offers plenty of opportunity to do great work.
Imagine a career at one of the nation's most advanced health networks.
Be part of an exceptional health care experience. Join the inspired, passionate team at Lehigh Valley Health Network, a nationally recognized, forward-thinking organization offering plenty of opportunity to do great work.
LVHN has been ranked among the "Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years. We're a Magnet(tm) Hospital, having been honored five times with the American Nurses Credentialing Center's prestigious distinction for nursing excellence and quality patient outcomes in our Lehigh Valley region. Finally, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg, Lehigh Valley Hospital- Hazleton, and Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono each received an 'A' grade on the Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group in 2020, the highest grade in patient safety. These recognitions highlight LVHN's commitment to teamwork, compassion, and technology with an unrelenting focus on delivering the best health care possible every day.
Whether you're considering your next career move or your first, you should consider Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Our Next Operating Room Course Will Begin in January 2027
The OR RN Internship is a full-time paid 26-week course designed to train the Graduate Nurse/Registered Nurse in the perioperative role in the Operating Room through didactic and preceptored clinical experiences in various surgical specialties and campuses. Responsibilities of the scrub and circulating nurse, basic principles of asepsis, ethical-legal aspects and the preparation, care and application of surgical supplies and equipment will be presented. Interns will have an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills learned in the clinical setting and have the experience and support to successfully complete the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses(AORN) Perioperative 101: A Core Curriculum. Clinical orientation success and departmental needs determine intern placement in a full-time position at a LVHN surgical campus.
Summary
Directs and manages the care of designated operative patients and performs an ongoing patient assessment, creates and maintains a safe environment, and implements and enforces all policies and procedures. Handles the instruments, supplies, and equipment necessary during the surgical procedure. Develops a plan of perioperative nursing care based on patient assessment including physical, psychosocial, cultural, growth, and development dimensions.
Job Duties
- Assists operating physician with surgical tasks such as homeostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning.
- Contributes to the overall care of the patient before, during and after surgery by using technical and mechanical functions.
- Performs circulating functions such as monitoring, recording, and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of the patient before, during, and after the procedure.
- Performs scrub functions such as the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure.
- Recognizes the need for and initiates collaboration/communication with physicians, interdisciplinary team members, and takes actions to proactively resolve patient needs.
- Inspects sterile items for integrity before opening or delivery to the sterile field and verifies the presence and appropriate color change of chemical indicators in all loads.
- Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation and analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
- Controls environment including temperature, provision of warm blankets, use of warm irrigation fluids, monitoring of the sensory environment, control traffic flow, and adheres to safety and sanitation policies.
Minimum Qualifications
- Specialized Diploma Nursing
- Less than 1 year Current operating room experience or completion of perioperative internship program.
- Ability to perform assessments and nursing functions as acquired in the basic nursing preparation program.
- Ability to plan, review, supervise, and inspect the work of others.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Minimum ability to circulate surgical procedures
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support - State of Pennsylvania
- RN - Licensed Registered Nurse_PA - State of Pennsylvania
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to scrub surgical procedures
- CNOR - Certified Nurse Operating Room CCICBPN - State of Pennsylvania
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. Examples: Push/pull patients on bed, stretcher (requires 29 lbs. push force), lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patient's weight. Frequent to continuous standing/walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. *Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.
Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Lehigh Valley Health Network is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with, and where applicable, in addition to federal, state and local employment regulations, Lehigh Valley Health Network will provide employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or other such protected classes as may be defined by law. All personnel actions and programs will adhere to this policy. Personnel actions and programs include, but are not limited to recruitment, selection, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, educational programs and/or social activities.
Lehigh Valley Health Network does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our job aliases, our employees or any other organization location. Lehigh Valley Health Network is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Location
Lehigh Valley Hospital- Cedar Crest
1200 S Cedar Crest Blvd, 18103-6202, Allentown, United States
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Get Access To All JobsRegistered Nurse CPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Registered Nurse on CPT without being licensed yet?
CPT authorizes the training arrangement, but state nursing boards control who can practice as an RN. Most states require full licensure before you can work independently in a clinical RN role. Some hospitals offer CPT placements under a graduate nurse or extern title while your NCLEX application is pending, which keeps you within state scope-of-practice rules while fulfilling your curricular hours.
How does my school determine whether a nursing CPT placement qualifies?
Your DSO evaluates whether the position is an integral part of your established curriculum, not just related to your field. For nursing programs, this typically means the role involves direct patient care, clinical skill development, or supervised practice in a setting that maps to your program's clinical competency requirements. A job in hospital administration or medical billing generally won't qualify, even at a healthcare employer.
Do hospitals know how to handle CPT work authorization for nurses?
Larger hospital systems and academic medical centers are more likely to have HR teams familiar with F-1 CPT, since they routinely hire international nursing students for clinical rotations. Smaller outpatient clinics may not. Before accepting an offer, ask HR whether they've processed CPT students before and whether they're enrolled in E-Verify, which is required for employment verification at most healthcare employers with federal contracts.
Where can I find Registered Nurse jobs that work with CPT students?
Migrate Mate lists nursing roles from employers with documented work authorization experience, so you're not cold-applying to facilities that have never hired an F-1 student. Look for postings at hospital systems, federally qualified health centers, and VA-affiliated facilities, which have the compliance infrastructure to handle CPT documentation without delays.
Does full-time CPT as an RN affect my OPT eligibility after graduation?
Full-time CPT used for 12 months or more eliminates your OPT eligibility entirely, including the STEM OPT extension. Part-time CPT, defined as 20 hours per week or fewer, has no impact on OPT. If you're planning to use OPT after graduation to bridge to H-1B visa sponsorship, confirm with your DSO whether your hospital placement will be classified as full-time or part-time before signing your offer letter.