Clinical Placement Guidelines

Clinical Placement Guidelines

Many variables must be considered in matching clinical sites and students. For example, the availability of placement opportunities at clinical sites is an important factor, as are the prior experiences and needs of a particular student and other students in the program. Students are not permitted to contact a clinical site or a preceptor about a clinical placement. Students may not attend a clinical experience when the college is not open. There are no guarantees that students will get a clinical placement of their first choice.

Before students are permitted to commence a clinical placement, they must have successfully completed the health clearance process, mandatory training, and the dosage calculation examination. Students will not be considered for a clinical placement until they have satisfied these prerequisites.

A conflict of interest can arise if a student has a familial, social, or long term professional relationship with a person who would have direct supervision of the student during the clinical placement. Students have the responsibility of disclosing to the Clinical Placement Coordinator any actual or potential conflict of interest. The Clinical Placement Coordinator will assess the circumstances and determine whether there is an actual conflict of interest. Students are not permitted to enroll in two clinical sections on the same day. If a student enrolls in two clinical sections on the same day, the student will be dropped from one clinical section by his/her academic advisor.

Clinical sections may on occasion be cancelled due to such circumstances as changes in enrollment, scheduling issues, agency needs and the like. The School of Nursing and Health Sciences will notify students when a clinical section is cancelled. Every effort will be made to enroll the student in another section of the course with the least disruption as possible, to the student’s course schedule.