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Eastern Iowa Community College District

Evening-Weekend Nursing Program

Clinical Practicum

Clinical Attendance Policy

Clinical Evaluation

Clinical Practicum
All students in nursing have as part of their curriculum, 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 will be assigned to each clinical area. 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. A student may be transferred to another clinical site without rationale.

Students must remember that the institution is cooperating with the college to provide necessary experience for learning. Therefore, students must remember that they are guests of the cooperating agency and conduct themselves in an appropriate manner while adhering 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, specific in the privacy rules. Students are expected to adhere to the policies and procedures of the clinical facilities to ensure HIPAA compliance.

It is the student's 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.		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.
	b.		Students not providing appropriate notification will have an unexcused absence. An unexcused absence constitutes failure of the course.
	c.		Tardiness may count as an absent day for clinical experience, and the student may be sent off the unit.
	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 College District. Failure to demonstrate satisfactory performance by the completion of the make-up day will result in failure of the course.

Clinical Evaluation
Two unsatisfactory days during the course indicates failure of clinical practicum. Failure in either classroom or clinical constitutes failure of the course. A student who fails the clinical practicum or the classroom will be required to repeat both classroom and clinical practicum.