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NCLIN 411 is your last clinical course. It allows you to immerse yourself into the
role of the Registered Nurse and helps you transition into the profession.
NCLIN 411 is scheduled to have a theory portion (a 2 hour lecture plus 2 hours of seminar)
weekly plus 24 hours clinical per week. Students are assigned to a School of Nursing
faculty member/clinical instructor plus a preceptor (a Registered Nurse employed at the
clinical site) for the experience. You will work the hours your preceptor(s) work:
hours may include 12 hour shifts or 8 hour shifts; days, evenings, nights,
and weekends, depending on the site.
NCLIN 411 placements are available in medical-surgical nursing, pediatrics, maternal/child
nursing, psychosocial nursing, community health. The placements are arranged in blocks by
the NCLIN 411 course coordinator, individual instructors, and staff in Academic Services.
Once sections, instructors and sites have been negotiated, Dagmar Schmidt in AS, in conjunction
with the course coordinator, prepares an information packet listing the available sections,
sites, and preference sheets. Students meet with course faculty and Dagmar as a group to discuss
NCLIN 411 objectives and the information in the packet. Students have approximately one week to
review the available sites and submit their preference for specialty area (such as maternity,
psychosocial, etc.) and site.
The forms are turned into AS and assignments are made based on student interest, availability
of sites, learning objectives, and past clinical placements.
No. All clinical placements are arranged through the School of Nursing. We will try to
accomodate your interest, but the objective is to provide placements that serve the interest
of the class as a whole as well as meeting individual objectives. It is not possible to
arrange individual placements based on student input.
Each student must demonstrate the ability to:
- Synthesize knowledge in using the nursing process to provide care for a community,
group of clients, or a single client with complex health problems.
- Organize nursing care effectively, set appropriate priorities for nursing
actions, and develop competency as coordinator of care who manages care transitions and
is an active participant on the inter-professional team.
- Learn new technical skills or protocols relevant to the care of clients and
communities.
- Communicate effectively with clients and families in a manner sensitive to
condition, age, gender, and social and cultural status.
- Collaborate with other health care providers in planning, implementing, and
evaluating care.
- Evaluate one's own practice.
- Be self directed in the use of appropriate resources, including research
findings, to solve nursing care problems.
- Implement, monitor, and evaluate holistic, patient centered care that reflects an
understanding of human growth and development, pharmacology, medical management,
and nursing management across the health-illness continuum and across the lifespan.
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