Would being a NICU nurse extern help me get a job in the NICU when I graduate nursing school?

I am not going to get a job at the hospital giving me the externship, I am trying to get a job in a different state, but I am wondering if the externship experience would look good on my resume?

Is this a student nurse internship, or a RN externship?

Read the externship job posting very carefully - where I live, externships are part of a hire process and are NOT temporary positions for students. They are for licensed RNs who are training into the field and at the end of the externship they are formal employees. Internships are temporary positions for students to gain experience in a particular area.

Be sure of what you're applying for. Regardless, yes it will be a very valuable experience. But as a new grad, you'd be better off working in a med/surg environment, either adult or pediatric, simply to gain valuable experience as a new nurse before moving on to a specialty. It's difficult to get straight into any ICU environment as a new graduate, even if you have internship experience under your belt. So don't get discouraged if you can't get there right way.

of course it will. but..as a nurse you probably will just have to take what you can get, until you get your foot in the door.

You'd be more likely to get the job over someone else who didn't have the experience, so yes it would help you, or at least it couldn't hurt! They do look at this stuff.