MEPN Students: Going on for Graduate Study

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MEPN Students: NCLIN 411: Transition to Professional Practice
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.

How is NCLIN 411 structured?
NCLIN 411 is scheduled to have a weekly theory portion plus 24 hours of 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, or nights; and weekends, depending on the site.

What is the process of being placed in a clinical site for NCLIN 411?
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, the Academic Services office, in conjunction with the course coordinator, prepares an information packet listing the available sections, sites, and preference sheets. Students meet with course faculty 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. 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.