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**To avoid delaying your degree progression, set a Health Field Experience Start Date and actively engage in networking to identify potential Sites and Preceptors. **
**To avoid delaying your degree progression, set a Health Field Experience Start Date and actively engage in networking to identify potential Sites and Preceptors. **
Discuss an anticipated Start Date with your Program Mentor
Discuss an anticipated Start Date with your Program Mentor
You will need ample time to network and identify potential preceptors, as well as gathering and uploading compliance records, which can take time and may require updated immunizations. If you need to establish an Affiliation Agreement with your selected clinical site, the process can take up to 6 months.
You will need ample time to network and identify potential preceptors, as well as gathering and uploading compliance records, which can take time and may require updated immunizations. If you need to establish an Affiliation Agreement with your selected clinical site, the process can take up to 6 months.
Any delay in starting these steps will impact your degree progression, resulting in a delay in your expected graduation date.
Any delay in starting these steps will impact your degree progression, resulting in a delay in your expected graduation date.
- Define Global and Population Health & Emerging Professional Practice
- Provide a high-level overview of the Clinical Placement Process. (Who, what, when, where, why, how)
Including:
Including:
- Preceptor Requirements
- Site Requirements
- Compliance Requirements
- Resources
Within 48 hours of reviewing the Clinical Information Session, you will access and complete the Clinical Information Session Knowledge Check within your Field Experience Page.
Within 48 hours of reviewing the Clinical Information Session, you will access and complete the Clinical Information Session Knowledge Check within your Field Experience Page.
The Knowledge Check demonstrates your understanding of the information covered in the session and your next steps toward Clinical Placement.
The Knowledge Check demonstrates your understanding of the information covered in the session and your next steps toward Clinical Placement.
Submit the Field Experience Student Profile
Submit the Field Experience Student Profile
Access the Field Experience Student Profile within your Field Experience Page. The completion and submission of the Preplacement Application is required to initiate the clinical portion of your program and must be received at least 6 months prior to your first Clinical Experience course. Late applications may cause a delay in your degree progression.
Access the Field Experience Student Profile within your Field Experience Page. The completion and submission of the Preplacement Application is required to initiate the clinical portion of your program and must be received at least 6 months prior to your first Clinical Experience course. Late applications may cause a delay in your degree progression.
Immunization compliance is stringently required for all BSNU students. Compliance is required even if you are an employee at your selected Clinical Site and regardless of the policies at your Clinical Site.
Immunization compliance is stringently required for all BSNU students. Compliance is required even if you are an employee at your selected Clinical Site and regardless of the policies at your Clinical Site.
Employment status and Student status are not interrelated.
Employment status and Student status are not interrelated.
Preceptors must be a registered nurse with a Bachelors Degree or higher, with an active, unencumbered RN license.
Preceptors must be a registered nurse with a Bachelors Degree or higher, with an active, unencumbered RN license.
Preceptors:
Preceptors:
- Serve as a liaison/guide between the student and host site.
- Have agreed to support a student’s learning including providing feedback on student participation in a supportive and constructive way.
- Collaborates with the student and Course Instructor to recommend additional learning experiences consistent with the learning goals and topic selected.
- Signs the student’s time log to verify the relationship with the affiliated home site and associated hours and activities.
Students must work with preceptors employed by appropriate clinical sites in their local community, as available, to train in the provision of direct care across the 4 Spheres of Care. Appropriate sites should offer a learner sufficient direct patient care learning opportunities across the lifespan, with diverse populations
Students must work with preceptors employed by appropriate clinical sites in their local community, as available, to train in the provision of direct care across the 4 Spheres of Care. Appropriate sites should offer a learner sufficient direct patient care learning opportunities across the lifespan, with diverse populations
Utilize the links within your Field Experience Page to be taken to the submission forms for each Clinical Placement. You will submit Placement Details Forms for both D224 Global and Population Health and D225 Emerging Professional Practice.
Utilize the links within your Field Experience Page to be taken to the submission forms for each Clinical Placement. You will submit Placement Details Forms for both D224 Global and Population Health and D225 Emerging Professional Practice.
On the Documents & Form Tab of this website you will find links to Field Experience documents, compliance documents, and information regarding potential onboarding.
On the Documents & Form Tab of this website you will find links to Field Experience documents, compliance documents, and information regarding potential onboarding.
Documents must be completed and signed. Incomplete or incorrect documents will delay your placement and could impact your planned graduation date.
Documents must be completed and signed. Incomplete or incorrect documents will delay your placement and could impact your planned graduation date.
Students must be enrolled and actively engaged in the Field Experience Course before
You cannot engage in hours prior to receiving the Clearance Confirmation Email from Clinical Learning and Placement Support.
You cannot engage in hours prior to receiving the Clearance Confirmation Email from Clinical Learning and Placement Support.
Hours completed without prior approval from the Clinical Learning and Placement Support team will not count for course completion. Students who complete hours without first receiving a clearance confirmation email will be required to secure appropriate approval and compliance and repeat hours to pass the field experience course successfully.
Hours completed without prior approval from the Clinical Learning and Placement Support team will not count for course completion. Students who complete hours without first receiving a clearance confirmation email will be required to secure appropriate approval and compliance and repeat hours to pass the field experience course successfully.
enrolled and actively engaged in the course before starting the clinical hours.
enrolled and actively engaged in the course before starting the clinical hours.
Meet with your Course Instructor
Meet with your Course Instructor
The Course Instructor is a WGU employee who will:
The Course Instructor is a WGU employee who will:
Act as the studen't primary resources for oversight od the learning objectives related to the Clinical Placement, including monitoring and evaluating the learning experience.
Act as the studen't primary resources for oversight od the learning objectives related to the Clinical Placement, including monitoring and evaluating the learning experience.
Collaborate with with both Preceptor and Student to determine student learning needs and learning opportunities ensuring appropriate activities are logged for Field Experience hours.
Collaborate with with both Preceptor and Student to determine student learning needs and learning opportunities ensuring appropriate activities are logged for Field Experience hours.
Review and approve the students' time log for verification of the number and appropriateness of accrued hours.
Review and approve the students' time log for verification of the number and appropriateness of accrued hours.
All placements will require an Affiliation Agreement between WGU and the Clinical Site.
All placements will require an Affiliation Agreement between WGU and the Clinical Site.
NOTE: This is a legal contract negotiation process and can take up to 6 months to fully execute. Plan accordingly to avoid delaying your degree progression.
NOTE: This is a legal contract negotiation process and can take up to 6 months to fully execute. Plan accordingly to avoid delaying your degree progression.
The WGU Outreach Team will work with the Clinical Site Contract Administrator to negotiate an Affiliation Agreement. The negotiation of these agreements takes time and can go back and forth several times before they are signed by both WGU and the Clinical Site.
The WGU Outreach Team will work with the Clinical Site Contract Administrator to negotiate an Affiliation Agreement. The negotiation of these agreements takes time and can go back and forth several times before they are signed by both WGU and the Clinical Site.
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