This is the first clinical nursing course where the learner acquires basic skills in critical thinking, as well as an understanding of the psychosocial and scientific basis of nursing care in a sub-acute clinical setting.

 

This is the first of two courses centering on adult health nursing in the acute care setting. Adult Health Nursing I is the study of comprehensive complex nursing care aimed at promotion, restoration and maintenance of health in adults. 

 

The focus of this clinical nursing course is on the normal pregnancy, labor, birth, recovery and quality of life in the childbearing phase of the lifecycle. 

 

This course presents theoretical concepts of psychiatric mental health nursing to assist the student in using the nursing process to improve quality of life by meeting the mental health care needs of diverse urban client systems. 

 

The course enables students to perform comprehensive interventions designed to improve public health and the care of populations in communities. 

 

This course is an introduction to pediatric nursing with an emphasis on the common health problems of infants, children, and adolescents. 

 

In the Synthesis and Capstone course students provide direct care to acutely ill patients and their families while working one on one with a baccalaureate prepared registered nurse staff preceptor. 

Each student upon entering NU226- Introduction to Nursing Practice must submit the following clinical clearance items in order to begin their clinical experience:

     Clinical placements are arranged while considering several factors, including: transportation needs, city or town of residency, place of employment, and carpooling arrangements.

 

     There is a clinical orientation for each clinical course. Clinical orientation typically takes place during the first week of the semester. Please check the first week schedule on the CNHS website under “Email Blitzes”.

 

     CNHS encourages students to carpool if this is an option. Students who carpool must tell the Clinical Placement Specialist about this arrangement when placement sheets are distributed to students during the previous semester.

 

     Clinical groups usually have seven or eight students in each group.

 

     Students are not usually placed where they work. Students should be experiencing as many different clinical agencies as possible.

 

     A positive titer proves immunity, whereas if a student has history of chicken pox, they may not be fully immune to the disease.

 

     Yes

 

     In all working agreements signed by CNHS and partnering clinical agencies, clinical clearance requirements as well as a CORI check is required for all students placed at each facility.

 

     Most of our placements are accessible by public transportation, however, there are some agencies that are not. Students are not guaranteed a public accessible clinical placement if they do not have a car. Students are strongly urged to carpool whenever possible.

 

     Caritas Carney Hospital frequently offers CPR certification at the healthcare provider level. Please call 617-296-4012, ext. 2093 for dates and times of upcoming classes. 

 

     Students are given an opportunity to switch their clinical placements with another student. All switches are given final approval by the Clinical Placement Specialist.

 

     Your schedule needs to be flexible in regard to clinical placements. Child care and work schedules can be challenging when students start their clinical rotations. CNHS tries to accommodate child care issues as well as work schedules to the best of our ability, but please note that having alternative arrangements such as back up child care or flexible hours at work would be optimal. All clinical placements are tentative and are subject to change due to agency, faculty or student enrollment needs.

 

     Clinical placements are typically during the day from 7:00 AM-1:00 PM. There are not many evening clinical placements available.

 

 

 

Please send clinical placement questions to: Heidi Wallace