2025 Nursing Internship: Medical Device Safety

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Medical Device Safety Overview:

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie’s Experiential Interns.

The Pharmacovigilance, Patient Safety, Epidemiology, and Quality (PSEQ) organization works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand, and communicate the safety profile and ensure quality standards of AbbVie products to protect patients worldwide

The Medical Device Safety team plays a critical role in evaluating safety data relevant to AbbVie for medical device products. 

This internship will give nursing students the opportunity to learn more about alternative applications of their education, one that concentrates on patient health at a population level rather than at the individual clinical care setting.

The team is a high-profile and high-impact group of physicians and other health care professionals who work in close collaboration with a broad range of cross-functional colleagues. The team works collaboratively to provide product data analysis, signal monitoring and product insights so that together as a team, the Product Safety Team can implement appropriate actions to ensure patient safety.

As a member of the team, you are at the forefront of working with leaders to identify critical priorities and drive high-value projects that make an impact on the safety of our patients.

Key Responsibilities Include:

The Medical Device Safety Intern will join a team of highly qualified physicians and other professionals who provide a wide breadth of experience in supporting a large portfolio of combination products and stand-alone devices. This team works collaboratively with a broad range of cross-functional team members to ensure a seamless end-to-end lifecycle for every product.

The Medical Device Safety intern requires an in-depth medical knowledge and an understanding of basic process and medical concepts to contextualize safety data as they apply to device safety and quality. During this internship experience the intern will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with clinical operations colleagues, quality assurance, post-marketing surveillance, human factors, and colleagues in quality analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Support medical safety consultation activities in matters related to analysis of safety analysis of marketed devices
• Understand concepts of benefit and risk of devices, and application of these concepts in clinical practice as well as in public health
• Gain understanding of medical device regulations, standards, and guidance
• Participate in root-cause investigations into medication use errors, device failures, and human factors-related use errors
• Assisting with ongoing continuous improvement projects spanning across departmental needs

AbbVie strongly considers high performing interns as candidates for the Patient Safety & Quality Development Program, a two-year rotational program aimed at developing the leaders of tomorrow within the Patient Safety and Quality function.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or related field
• Must be enrolled in university during the internship period
• Expected graduation date between December 2025 – June 2026

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with medical devices or medical device safety
• Quality-related, public health, or research course work or experience

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students
• Select wellness benefits and paid holiday / sick time

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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