Clinical Violations
Clinical violations may occur prior to beginning clinicals. Clinical violations are determined at the discretion of the course/clinical faculty in collaboration with the Clinical Practice Manager and Program Director for any unsafe, unacceptable, unethical, or unprofessional behaviors or performance. Clinical violations can affect the overall clinical grade.
The following are examples of behaviors or performance that will lead to clinical violations. This list is non-exhaustive:
- Pre-clinical requirements not completed by deadline
- Exercising poor clinical judgment
- Exercising poor ethical judgement
- Practicing skills without faculty or assigned preceptor oversight
- Sleeping during the clinical/lab/seminar
- Unexcused absences
- Tardiness, failure to notify faculty/staff of tardiness in clinical
- Insufficient preparation for the clinical experience
- Failure to follow clinical faculty or clinical nurse guidance
- Causing a client unnecessary suffering or harm
- Failure to report abnormal data in a timely manner to the appropriate persons
- Conduct inappropriate to the role of the student as outlined in this manual
- Failure to dress in approved program attire
- HIPAA violations
- FERPA violations
- Performing skills/interventions which have not been signed off by the clinical faculty and/or acting outside of a student scope of practice