laboratory and clinical booklet - Fort Scott Community College

15. Clinical papers – whether it is the Client Assessment Sheet/Nursing Care Plan or the
required paper from ER, Outpatient Surgery, or Home Health – are due the following
week, at the start of your next clinical day. You may hand papers in prior to that date.
However, any papers handed in after that time will be given zero points.
There are a total of 9 clinical papers due: 4 medical/surgical, 1 critical care unit
(CCU), 1 outpatient surgery (OP), 1 emergency room (ER), 1 student leader (SL), and
1 home health (HH) or wound care (WC). The student has the option of determining
which clinical dates to write the 9 required papers out of 12 possible dates.
16. Home Health rotation students in observational experiences will be allowed to take
vital signs only. Reference KBSN 60-1-104.
17. All written assignments will be on proper forms, legible, and neat or they will be
returned to student ungraded. Follow grading criteria carefully.
The total average of clinical tool grades and the total average of all clinical papers are
combined for a final clinical grade. To pass this course, students must pass clinical
papers with an 80% combined grade.
18. A nursing preceptor experience will be given each student in NURSING 2509 not to
exceed 24 hours of clinical rotation. Reference KSBN 60-1-104.
19. During the clinical rotations, no students will be allowed to leave the facility.
20. Each student will have 30 minutes for lunch on days with clinical hours greater than
five-hour shifts.
21. Students will not go to lunch at the same time. Students are expected to cover each
other for lunch breaks. The student leader will assign lunches.
22. Students who smell of cigarette smoke or heavy perfume will not be allowed on the
clinical floor and will receive an unsatisfactory for the day.
23. Students are subject to rules and regulations of each facility, i.e. drug testing,
bloodborne pathogen testing, confidentiality, etc.
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