West Boca Medical Center - Nurse Extern Opportunities

West Boca Medical Center

Boca Raton, Florida

West Boca Medical Center is hiring for its own floors, with no agency in between.

Posted Oct 7

Pay: Not posted
Shift and hours: Rotating
License: RN license
Term: Permanent

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Certification: AHA BLS Required: AHA BLS
Also asks: Currently enrolled in an accredited RN program, and upon completion of first clinical rotation. Required: Currently enrolled in an accredited RN program, and upon completion of first clinical rotation.

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West Boca Medical Center sits inside the Palm Beach Health Network, and its RN postings lean on sign-on money: $5,000 for new graduates across the network's hospitals.

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The Nurse Extern, is currently enrolled in a School of Nursing and has successfully completed a Nursing fundamentals course. When on duty, s/he assists patients with activities of daily living and provides basic patient care designed to meet the physical, emotional and social needs of the patient. The Nurse Extern may also be cross-trained to perform unit secretary clerical duties.

The nurse Extern may perform nursing practice interventions learned within his/her clinical training and successfully validated by a RN staff member. The Nurse Extern, is currently enrolled in a School of Nursing and has successfully completed a Nursing fundamentals course. When on duty, s/he assists patients with activities of daily living and provides basic patient care designed to meet the physical, emotional and social needs of the patient.

The Nurse Extern may also be cross-trained to perform unit secretary clerical duties. The nurse Extern may perform nursing practice interventions learned within his/her clinical training and successfully validated by a RN staff member.

Education

Required: Currently enrolled in an accredited RN program, and upon completion of first clinical rotation.

Experience

Required: None

Certifications

Required: AHA BLS

Physical Demands

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In Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton, FLFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 3% above the US average

Median rent: $2,508/mo
Household income: $106,273/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Boca Raton, FL

NeighborhoodsDowntown Boca is the walkable rental hub around Mizner Park, with high-rise condos, a Brightline station, and June 2026 Trulia rents around $2,756 for a 1BR and $3,611 for a 2BR; yards are rare. University Park leans toward apartment rentals and older low-rise condos; Boca Raton Hills offers smaller houses and a more central, lower-price address; Sandalfoot Cove is the in-city value play with the widest mix of homes, condos, and townhomes. West of Florida's Turnpike, gated golf communities such as Boca West, Boca Pointe, Tiburon, and neighborhoods along Glades Road are where most families live, with medians often cited around $500,000 to $800,000, while East Boca near A1A and the beach is the premium coastal core (ZIPs include 33432, 33433, 33434, 33428). Nurses stretching an $80k-$150k budget also look just outside city limits: Lantana for a quieter, cheaper Boca commute, Boynton Beach or Lake Worth for lower prices, and Pompano, Margate, or Coral Springs at roughly an extra 15 minutes.

Downtown Boca is the walkable rental hub around Mizner Park, with high-rise condos, a Brightline station, and June 2026 Trulia rents around $2,756 for a 1BR and $3,611 for a 2BR; yards are rare. University Park leans toward apartment rentals and older low-rise condos; Boca Raton Hills offers smaller houses and a more central, lower-price address; Sandalfoot Cove is the in-city value play with the widest mix of homes, condos, and townhomes.

West of Florida's Turnpike, gated golf communities such as Boca West, Boca Pointe, Tiburon, and neighborhoods along Glades Road are where most families live, with medians often cited around $500,000 to $800,000, while East Boca near A1A and the beach is the premium coastal core (ZIPs include 33432, 33433, 33434, 33428). Nurses stretching an $80k-$150k budget also look just outside city limits: Lantana for a quieter, cheaper Boca commute, Boynton Beach or Lake Worth for lower prices, and Pompano, Margate, or Coral Springs at roughly an extra 15 minutes.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: trulia.com Source 2: valuestoreit.com Source 3: facebook.com Source 4: reddit.com Source 5: movewithmomentum.com

Getting aroundA Brightline high-speed rail station sits in downtown Boca and runs south to Fort Lauderdale and Miami and north to West Palm Beach and Orlando, the main alternative to sitting in I-95 traffic. Outside that pocket, nearly everything requires a car: most of the city is low-rise condos and houses inside gated communities, and heading west of Florida's Turnpike drops prices but lengthens the beach and downtown trip. Boca is about 20 miles from Fort Lauderdale, 26 miles from West Palm Beach, and 46 miles from Miami, with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and Palm Beach International each about 26 miles away. Commenters treating a Boca job as the commute target call Lantana still very manageable and Boynton Beach or Lake Worth realistic; Pompano, Margate, or Coral Springs typically add about 15 minutes. Sources do not name hospital campuses or parking rules.

A Brightline high-speed rail station sits in downtown Boca and runs south to Fort Lauderdale and Miami and north to West Palm Beach and Orlando, the main alternative to sitting in I-95 traffic. Outside that pocket, nearly everything requires a car: most of the city is low-rise condos and houses inside gated communities, and heading west of Florida's Turnpike drops prices but lengthens the beach and downtown trip.

Boca is about 20 miles from Fort Lauderdale, 26 miles from West Palm Beach, and 46 miles from Miami, with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and Palm Beach International each about 26 miles away. Commenters treating a Boca job as the commute target call Lantana still very manageable and Boynton Beach or Lake Worth realistic; Pompano, Margate, or Coral Springs typically add about 15 minutes.

Sources do not name hospital campuses or parking rules.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: trulia.com Source 2: palmparadiserealty.com Source 3: facebook.com Source 4: reddit.com Source 5: valuestoreit.com

OutdoorsBoca has roughly 50 parks and two municipal golf courses, with fishing, boating, paddling, hiking, and biking built into daily life. Named spots include Red Reef Park for snorkeling, surf fishing, and bird watching between the Intracoastal Waterway and the ocean; Spanish River Park for family picnics; South Beach Park and South Inlet Park; Gumbo Limbo Nature Center for marine life and rehabilitating sea turtles; and Daggerwing Nature Center for hiking and bird watching. The Boca Raton Airport Observation Area is a circular viewing platform with a live air-traffic-control radio feed. Wide Atlantic beaches and the Intracoastal define the east side of town.

Boca has roughly 50 parks and two municipal golf courses, with fishing, boating, paddling, hiking, and biking built into daily life. Named spots include Red Reef Park for snorkeling, surf fishing, and bird watching between the Intracoastal Waterway and the ocean; Spanish River Park for family picnics; South Beach Park and South Inlet Park; Gumbo Limbo Nature Center for marine life and rehabilitating sea turtles; and Daggerwing Nature Center for hiking and bird watching.

The Boca Raton Airport Observation Area is a circular viewing platform with a live air-traffic-control radio feed. Wide Atlantic beaches and the Intracoastal define the east side of town.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: visitflorida.com Source 2: thepalmbeaches.com Source 3: facebook.com Source 4: trulia.com

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Living in Boca Raton

Boca Raton, a city of about 99,000 in southern Palm Beach County, is a designed coastal place of pink Mediterranean towers, Mizner Park plazas, a downtown Brightline station, and roughly 50 parks including Red Reef, Spanish River, and Gumbo Limbo's sea-turtle rehab. Daily life splits hard east-west. East Boca around Mizner Park and A1A is walkable and condo-steep—June 2026 downtown 1BR rents around $2,756—while west of the Turnpike, gated golf communities such as Boca West, Boca Pointe, and Tiburon offer more house near $500,000-$800,000 and the A-rated schools families cite. Citywide rent averages near $2,944; home-value snapshots run from about $575,000 to a $700,000 median in late 2025. Insurance, HOA fees, and year-round air conditioning eat the budget, summers are hot and humid, and winter brings a visible snowbird surge. Nurses stretching $80k-$150k typically land in Sandalfoot Cove or Boca Raton Hills, or commute from Lantana, Boynton Beach, or Lake Worth. Outside downtown you drive everywhere; the culture is beaches, golf, Kapow and Max's Grille—not a party town.

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As of 2026Source 1: trulia.com Source 2: valuestoreit.com Source 3: palmparadiserealty.com Source 4: visitflorida.com Source 5: thepalmbeaches.com Source 6: facebook.com Source 7: facebook.com Source 8: reddit.com

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