1. Student Guidelines

2. Presence St. Mary's Hospital
Welcome, both students and instructors to our facility for your clinical experience. The following guidelines are intended to facilitate your experience here at
Presence St. Mary's Hospital

3. Parking
Students are encouraged to park behind St. Rose Rectory. Parking is available east of the telephone poles.
Your car MAY BE TOWED if parked in the lots that are reserved for visitors and patients

4. Dress Code
The uniforms adopted by your respective schools must be worn while on duty.
Students and instructors who come into the hospital in the evening prior to assigned duty to study charts are asked to be in uniform or business attire with lab coat and name pin so that hospital staff can identify you
A professional image is expected
No perfumes, artificial nails or other body piercings other than earrings of modest size

5. Meals Students are welcome to eat in the hospital cafeteria
Food is available in the cafeteria from
Food may not be taken into work areas

6. Smoking
Smoking is NOT permitted on the hospital campus, this include inside as well as outside the property

7. Personal valuables Space is limited in the nursing/ staff lounges
Do not bring large sums of money or valuable into the hospital setting
Coats and books can be left in the break rooms or a designated area per your instructor

8. Injuries
In the event of exposure to blood/body fluids or a sharps injury
The instructor/ student notifies the charge nurse immediately who in turn will contact house operation manager (HOM)
The instructor should follow up with HOM at the time of injury.
HOM will have for the injured party to fill out
The instructor should also follow their school policy
Instructors need to report any other injury (i.e., Fall) in the MIDAS variance reporting system and contact HOM as well

9. Incidents involving a patient
The student needs to report the incident to their instructor immediately (i.e., medication error, injury to patient, fall)
The instructor along with the assistance of the student need to report the incident in the MIDAS variance reporting system
Prior to leaving the unit a description of the incident and
follow-up needs to be discussed with the charge nurse

10. Calling Off Students should follow school policy
Students should also call the department and leave a message for their instructor giving their name and school

11. Nursing Stations Space in the nursing stations is limited
Please be sensitive to others needs regarding seating area and charting responsibilities
When physicians are present be respectful of their time. You may have to give up the chart or your computer and wait until the physician has finished

12. Reviewing patient charts
Minimal information is kept in patients charts, however when removing a chart, a staff member should be aware of it’s location so a physician doesn’t have to search for it
Place a piece of paper in the rack indicating where the chart can be located

13. Giving Medications
With the supervision of their instructor and the level of preparedness in the nursing / respiratory programs and following hospital policy, students can administer medications
This may include monitoring IV’s, discontinuing IV’s and giving IV medications if the content is covered in the school’s curriculum

14. Comments/ Concerns during clinical rotation
Comment/ concerns can be directed to the manager of the clinical unit
Safety and quality clinical issues can be directed to Amy Whitis, clinical educaotr, x 2495 of the Presence St. Mary’s Hospital Clinical Education Department
Safety and quality concerns can also be reported to the Joint Commission (contact information posted throughout the facility)

15. Pastoral Care
The Chaplin will take communion to the patients on a daily basis per request of the patient
Students should stay in the room when a Chaplin comes to visit, but need to stand aside so he/ she can approach the patient easily

16. Confidentiality
All information gathered by the student in oral/ written/ printed form is confidential and needs to be treated as such
Access codes are only valid with the semesters clinical
There shall be no patient documentation leaving the hospital
If a student chooses to print something from the medical record it should be placed in the recycle bin prior to leaving the unit/area
EXCEPTION: a comprehensive radiology or lab report, or GPP may be printed if all patient identifiers are cut off the document and placed in the recycle bin
This exception does NOT include History & Physicals, consultations, or any other documentation that would have personally recognizable information with the will be honored by document

17. Confidentiality continued
It is an expectation that the above rules will be honored by all students
If a student is found in breach of the above rules the use of Presence St. Mary’s Hospital as a clinical site for that student will be revoked
Students are treated as staff, all staff are subject to random audits by Risk Management
A student may only view a patient’s record that he/ she is assigned, if it is found that a student is viewing records outside the assignment, the use of Presence St. Mary’s Hospital as a clinical site for that student will be revoked

18. Hospital Emergencies FIRE Rapid Response Code Blue Security Emergency
Dial “71” on any phone to report :
FIRE
Rapid Response
Code Blue
Security Emergency