Nursing Student Experience

Instructor-led clinical groups
This traditional learning experience involves an instructor bringing a group of students, 8 or fewer, to a clinical unit in the hospital for learning.  Requests for this type of learning must be submitted by the School of Nursing using the Nursing Student Placement Request Form for clinical groups.  Deadline for submission of requests for group placements for the 2010-11 school year is May 1st.  If your student nursing clinical group is canceled, please send us an email via Cancel Student Group.

Instructors should have the following forms sent to the Department of Professional Development no later than the end of the first week of the term:

• Print one Cover Page for the entire group.
• Print one Health/Safety form for the entire group. Please print 2-sided (back-to-back).
• Print Orientation/OSHA form for each student. Please print 2-sided (back-to-back).
• Print Confidentiality statement for each student.

Nursing instructors can schedule classrooms for pre-conference, post-conference, orientation, and other educational sessions directly via email at rmSched@NationwideChildrens.org. Be sure to include dates, times, size of class and any audiovisual needs. Do not assume that a computer or DVD player is in any educational room.

Observation learning experiences
Observations allow students who are already participating in a clinical group at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to have an experience on another unit or department of the hospital.  These experiences are strictly observation – no direct patient care.  Students are expected to arrive in uniform and on time to the observational experience.  The student should have clear learning objectives identified prior to arriving to guide their observational experience. 

All observations must be scheduled by an instructor.  Observation requests will not be accepted from non-faculty or for students not currently on rotation at Nationwide Children's Hospital.  Initial requests will be taken at the yearly Deans and Directors Meeting held in August at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Observation book confirmations will be posted on this website and updated on a 2-3 week basis, so it is imperative that the instructor look for the confirmation on this website.  Changes, cancellations (submit ASAP to allow other groups to schedule) and/or additions can then be made via the Observation Change Request form.

Prior to student observations in the MRI, the student will need to complete a MRI Self Study and MRI Safety Awareness Test. The student is to bring the successfully completed (score of 100%) test to the MRI observation. The nursing instructor needs to sign the completed test. The student will present the successfully completed, signed test at the beginning of the observation. The student will not be admitted to the MRI observation, without the successfully completed, signed test.

Observation Books (last updated 8/25/10)

Preceptorships 1:1
This is a one-on-one learning experience with a registered nurse. There are a limited number of precepted learning experiences available in any given time period.  Faculty must submit requests using the Nursing Student Placement Form for Precepted Students.  Requests for submission of requests for 1:1 preceptorships must be submitted a month before the term begins.

Instructors should have the following forms sent to the Department of Professional Development no later than the end of the first week of the term:

• Print Confidentiality statement for each precepted student.
• Print OHSA statement for each precepted student.

A clinical contract must exist between the graduate nursing student's school of Nursing and Nationwide Children's Hospital.  The schools of Nursing faculty, in support of their graduate nursing students, recruit a Nationwide Children's Hospital preceptor. 

Once a preceptor has been recruited, faculty must complete an online request form for graduate student. You can access the form through the following link:   Graduate Nursing Education Precepted Experience Request Form                                    

After completing the online form, the following information must be provided to the Department of Professional Development a minimum of two weeks before beginning a precepted experience.  No contact with patients is permitted without the following:

• OH RN License
• CPR Verification
• Health and Safety information
• Current background check from school
• Confidentiality form
• Liability Insurance (personal or through student’s school)

Placements are made for one term at a time.  Your preceptor will be notified by email when all of the required documents are processed.
 

At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the EpicCare electronic medical record is used in the hospital, Emergency Department, Urgent Cares and many of the Ambulatory Clinics. All instructors must take a one-time Epic instructor course. Please schedule your nursing instructor course at least one week in advance. If no one is registered at least 7 days prior to the scheduled course, the course will be canceled.

Nursing instructors who also work at Nationwide Children's Hospital are required to complete a 1.5 hour instructor course before you begin instruction of nursing students on a unit. This program began in August of 2008. If you have attended this program once, that is sufficient for this requirement. To view course dates and times, as well as to register for a class, please use the Epic Class Request Form for instructors.

Nursing instructors who are not employees at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and have not attended the “Nursing Instructor Training for EpicCare In Patient” instruction (8 hour course), must attend this program if their students will be documenting in the electronic medical record. Please register on the Epic Class Request Form for instructors if you need this program.

All Training Rooms are located in the basement at 255 E. Main Street. Park in the location at Nationwide Children’s Hospital that you use as a nursing instructor. Take the shuttle that leaves from the main entrance of the Out Patient Care Center. Allow 20 minutes for transport time. Registration is required one week prior to the class. If there are no participants one week prior to the class, the class will be canceled.

Nursing instructors and nursing students will continue to be fingerprinted at the “Fingerprinting Depot” at 1040 Ross Hall, (Main Hospital) from 7 AM until 9 AM, and 2 PM until 4 PM, weekdays, no holidays or weekends.

• Students must be scheduled with IS Security for fingerprinting, even if they are currently working at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Please submit the Nursing Student Epic Setup Form at least two weeks before the students are scheduled to be fingerprinted. The completed form must be e-mailed to the Support Center, IS Security and Schools of Nursing.
• Nursing students should always be accompanied by a faculty member from their school during fingerprinting.
• If nursing students are not scheduled at Nationwide Children’s Hospital during the scheduled depot times, work directly with IS Security for an alternative time.    
• If your student(s) is being precepted by a Nationwide Children’s Hospital nurse (i.e., a student in a “professional rotation”), and if the student is documenting in the electronic medical record, you need to send the student name(s) to IS Security in the same manner as described above. Check with the nurse preceptor and determine who will accompany the nursing student to the fingerprinting session.
• If your student nursing clinical group is canceled, please send us an email via Cancel Student Group.

Unfortunately, the computer training rooms are not available. Instruction of the Epic electronic medical record will continue with the Inpatient Schools of Nursing CD. At least one CD was given to each college or school. The following instructors have agreed to copy the PowerPoint for instructors at their institutions:

• Capital - Maria Satre
• Chamberlain – Susan Williams
• CSCC – RN – Tammy Montgomery
• COTC – Sandra Walker; Patricia Brown; Vicky Claypool
• Hocking College – Lori Peden
• Marion Tech – Cynthia Hartman
• MCCN – Hannah O’Handley
• MedCentral – Carol Reece
• NC State – Carol Kaple
• Otterbein – Deborah Mulquin-Peterson
• Ohio Northern University – Mary McWilliams
• OSU – Melissa Baker
• Springfield Regional – Sue Green

Nursing instructors can schedule classrooms for pre-conference, post-conference, orientation, and other educational sessions directly via email at rmSched@NationwideChildrens.org. Be sure to include dates, times, size of class and any audiovisual needs. Do not assume that a computer or DVD player is in any educational room.

Click here for the nursing instructor updates:  February, March.

When coming to Nationwide Children's Hospital, wear a student uniform/lab coat and school identification - no open-toed shoes. Do not come to Nationwide Children's Hospital if you are ill - please reschedule.

Your instructor/preceptor will orient you to Nationwide Children's Hospital. During the orientation you will be signing OSHA and confidentiality forms. An electronic medical record is utilized in most departments. Your instructor/preceptor will provide you with the education needed if the electronic medical record is used in your area of study.

To promote good health and maintain a healthy environment, Nationwide Children’s Hospital is smoke-free. All Children’s Hospital employees and visitors are prohibited from smoking during their work shift or visit to the hospital to protect the health of our patients. Designated areas will no longer be available for use and families and visitors will be asked not to smoke in their vehicles while on Nationwide Children's Hospital campus. Smoking cessation products are also available in the Gift Shop for purchase.