Responsibilities

Accepting a student for field placement is a three-step process.

1. 1. Review the IO competencies in this handbook found in the IO Field ExperiencePerformance Evaluation.

      • Each student is required to strengthen skills in a minimum of three competency areas.

      • Please be sure that your facility will be able to provide students withexperience in a minimum of at least three of the competency areas.

   2. Complete the Purdue University Global Field Placement Affiliation Agreement. This will be provided by the student.

      • The Field Placement Affiliation Agreement must be received and approved by Purdue University Global’s Clinical Placement Team before the student is cleared to enroll in the field placement course.

      • If your facility has a standard affiliation agreement for field placement and would prefer to use that agreement rather than Purdue Global’s agreement, please submit the agreement to Dawn Tesner at dtesner@purdueglobal.edu

      • If the student is an employee or will be employed by the facility during the rotation, the paid addendum also needs to be completed. This discloses that the student will be receiving reimbursement for hours of which he or she is also receiving educational credit. If the student will not be getting paid for their field placement hours, the paid addendum is not needed.

   3. Select a supervisor for the student’s field placement. The supervisor must hold a Master’s degree or higher and occupy a managerial role with the organization.

Once a student begins placement, the student will submit hours electronically via CORE ELMS, a document tracking system. You will receive an email to confirm or deny the hours via a link in the email with each submission of hours. Additionally, near the end of the term, the system will generate an evaluation for you to complete electronically, assessing the progress of the student.  

The evaluation criteria is available here so that you will know the types of skills the student would be assessed on during the rotation. The evaluation must be filled out electronically as paper copies are not accepted.