Clinical Responsibilities - Student

Transportation to and from clinical locations is the responsibility of the student. Clinical experience may require students to arrive early or be dismissed late in some clinical rotations.

Clinical Expectations of Student Behavior

Clinical experiences should be assigned that are appropriate to the student's level of education.
If the student fails to pass the clinical, all three related instructions need to be repeated; the didactic class, the lab and the clinical assignment.
Students are expected to be prepared and report promptly to the clinical site. Students denied admission, for any reason, will be counted absent.
Students must not perform any tasks outside of assigned student duties, even if they routinely perform those tasks while working at the facility.
IMPORTANT: Violations of this boundary may result in the student being sent home and receiving a zero for the day.
An absence from clinical practice must be reported at least 2 hours before the scheduled starting time.
Students may not have patient contact or access to any clinical setting or patient records without a location staff nurse or clinical instructor present.
Students will not be able to change clinical groups without approval from the Donnelly Clinical Coordinator.
1. Clinical assignment change needs must be communicated to the Clinical Coordinator as early as possible. There are no guarantees that your schedule needs will be met.
Students are not to be responsible for narcotic counts and must follow hospital guidelines regarding narcotics and control drugs.
Students may review physician orders only. Transcribing orders is not permitted. Students are NOT allowed to take verbal or phone orders from physicians or nurse practitioners.
Students may do routine checks of doctors orders and MARs/Medication Administration Records under the supervision of their clinical instructor or a location staff nurse.
Every effort is made to place a student in a facility in which they do not work. If you are placed in a facility in which you work, you are not to perform any work that you normally do for that facility, but rather be there as a student.
Students may not transport patients in personal vehicles.
Students may not be a witness for consent of any legal documents.
Use of cell phones, I-pods, PDAs/Personal Digital Assistant, or other electronic devices is not authorized in the clinical setting.
Appropriate, professional dress and appearance is required..
- Assigned scrubs, correct shoes (white or black only), hair up off the neck and no artificial or painted nails

Student Return to a Clinical Location After an Absence

Any student who has been absent due to surgery, injury, extended physical/mental illness, pregnancy, or maternity delivery must have a signed clinical release form from his/her physician indicating that he/she may return to clinical at full capacity and is able to perform all skills and duties.
The physician's notice will be placed in the student s file.
The clinical release form (which shows the date the student can return to the clinical location) must be submitted to the Director of Nursing's email, with the Nursing Administrative Coordinator copied, before the student can return. LINK (see Nursing Campus Resources)
A student may not return to a clinical assignment if he/she cannot perform at full capacity.
Clinical agencies reserve the right to determine if a student may practice in their facility while under a physician's care.