Communicable Disease Policy

Reporting Illness
The student must report illness, communicable diseases and any condition which might affect the health of the student, patients and hospital staff. This should be reported to a program official or clinical instructor. Failure to report this will result in probation and possible dismissal from the program.

To protect those around you and as a safeguard to patients, all students are required to meet safe health standards. Any student with an elevated temperature (100 degrees F. or more orally), symptoms of urinary infection (dysuria, urgency, or frequency), symptoms of respiratory infection, symptoms of gastrointestinal infection, or symptons of pink eye must report the condition to a program official or clinical instructor, even though the student may be under the care of a private physician. The program official or clinical instructor is responsible for reporting the condition to the Infection Control Surveyor at the clinical afiliate..

Health Status Report
A "Health Status Report" form must be signed by the student's physician before the student returns to the program. The student is responsible for making up lost clinical time and missed class work during his/her absence.

Infection Control
Students must follow OSHA guidelines regarding universal precautions.

Prior to clinical rotations, the student must complete orientation checklists and inservices. When the student begins a clinical rotation at a new clinical site, the verification checklist for that site must be completed the first two weeks of the rotation.

The student will be unable to proceed with clinical rotations unless all orientation checklists and inservises are completed within the stated time frames.

If all orientation checklists and inservises are incomplete within the state time frames, the student may be placed on probation and ultimately dismissed from the program, depending upon the circumstances for the incompletion.