Evening/Weekend Program

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Clinical Practicum
As part of the nursing curriculum, all students will have learning experiences in clinical areas. The Department of Nursing uses a variety of accredited health facilities to provide broad clinical experience for students; consequently, access to reliable transportation is necessary.

Clinical experience will be assigned and all students will know, in advance, where they will be going and to what types of experiences they will be assigned. Requests for specific health care agencies CANNOT be honored.

A clinical instructor/preceptor will be in each assigned clinical area with the students when providing direct patient care. The instructor is responsible for guiding the learning experiences and for the evaluation of students.

The actual clinical areas and hours at the cooperating agencies are determined by the nursing faculty in consultation with the administration of the health care agency. Students should be aware that a variety of time periods are in use, which may include late afternoon and evening rotations. Special circumstances may require a student to be transferred to another clinical site.

Students are guests of the cooperating agency and are expected to conduct themselves in an professional manner and adhere to institutional policies. Students are not to receive telephone calls while in the clinical area. In addition, students are not to use pagers or cell phones in the clinical areas.

Prior to beginning clinical, students are provided HIPAA education in regard to Protected Health Information. Students are expected to adhere to the policies and procedures of the clinical facilities to ensure HIPAA compliance.

It is a student responsibility to provide evidence of current certification for health care professionals in C.P.R. before entering or re entering the clinical component of any and all nursing courses. It is the responsibility of the student to maintain current certification throughout the program enrollment. Failure to comply will constitute a critical incident.

Clinical Attendance Policy
Since the clinical hours per day are extended for this program a student who is absent for one day will need to make up missed clinical hours, only in rare occasions and for the most compelling emergency reason will a clinical day be allowed to be made up.

	a.		Tardiness may count as an absent day for the clinical experience, and the student may be sent off the unit.
	b.		Students will be allowed one excused clinical absence. This excuse must be made up. Students unable to attend clinical must notify their instructor per instructor's guidelines; clinical instructor must be notified before the beginning of the clinical shift. In the event the student can not contact the clinical instructor, the student must contact the lead instructor.
	c.		Students will provide appropriate notification of an absence as defined by the course. Failure to do so constitutes an unexcused absence. An unexcused absence is counted as two (2) absences.
	d.		Students with absences exceeding one day will result in failure of clinical and, hence the course.
	e.		No absences beyond one day will be excused. Corroborative documentation is required to be submitted to the course manager no later than the second class meeting following the second clinical absence.
	f.		When special exceptions are granted they can be granted only up to one (1) day and that day must be made up. No exceptions can be granted beyond that.
	g.		The site, date and time of the granted make-up will be assigned by the nursing faculty in collaboration with the clinical agencies and will be held prior to the time when grades must be turned in. Hours could be variable and the site could be any health care facility within the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. Failure to demonstrate satisfactory performance by the completion of the make-up day will result in failure of the course.

Clinical Evaluation
Tests will be given throughout each course. The individual instructor determines the time and content of the tests. Final examinations are scheduled for each course. The final evaluation will be comprehensive based on the course objectives. Grades of (S) Satisfactory and (U) Unsatisfactory, are used in the clinical component of nursing courses. FAILURE IN EITHER CLASS OR CLINICAL EXPERIENCE CONSTITUTES FAILURE OF THE ENTIRE COURSE. THEREFORE, BOTH CLASS AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WILL BE REPEATED.

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