Students must attend all nursing lab activities and clinical assignments. Student safety is always a concern. With that being said, you must also complete your clinical hours to pass this course. You are welcome to cancel a clinical due to driving in inclement weather, with the understanding that you need to notify your clinical faculty 90 minutes before the scheduled start time. That clinical will not be rescheduled. You are responsible for signing up for another clinical opportunity to obtain those hours.
On days that SUU campus is open but no classes are held the DON may hold clinicals.
A Qualtrics check-in link will be provided and needs to be completed each clinical shift. If you don’t check in, I will assume that you are not there, mark you absent, and give you a clinical point. Yes, you will be submitting a picture (be careful with what is in the background no patient). I will not be posting these on social media; they are just to ensure you are at the correct site on time.
If you choose to miss a clinical experience, points will be subtracted from your grade. You will be required to make up any clinical hours missed; if you miss a day, you will lose attendance points even when you make up the clinical day. If missed clinicals are not made up, you will fail the course. All lab experiences/assignments and clinical experiences count for clinical hours; if they are not done, you will fail the course. Each unexcused clinical will drop clinical grade by one whole grade (A to B to C) and receive at least one clinical point. Two (2) unexcused clinical days may result in failing NURS 4355.
At no time are students to complete a clinical experience without the knowledge and supervision of clinical faculty.
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT- you only get 4 points total for nursing school
- You should arrive early to clinical, look professional, have the correct badge and uniform, not wrinkled, and be engaged and involved in your learning.
- You should not arrive late, not show up, be disrespectful to anyone at a clinical site, use your cell phone, study while at a clinical site, sleep, etc.
Although satisfactory academic performance is a prerequisite to advancement, it is not the sole criterion for considering a student's suitability for promotion or graduation. Remember that you are in the program to learn nursing and ‘become a nurse.’ Appropriate professional behavior in all settings is an expectation of students in the nursing program. The Department of Nursing reserves the right to require a student to withdraw from the SUU Nursing Program if considered unsuited to proceed with the study or practice of nursing based upon unprofessional student behavior. Examples of Professional Conduct in the clinical setting: Keeping voice down, speaking respectfully to the nurses and other healthcare staff, and not talking about patients or their conditions outside of patient care (this means not in the halls, at lunch, on the elevator, etc.), not telling a nurse they are wrong in front of the patient, being actively engaged, no cell phone out, etc. (See Nursing Handbook for other examples)