Have any nursing schools cancelled clinicals yet because of COVID-19? I hear about colleges moving classroom sessions online, but have yet to hear of clinical cancellations.
Are any of your schools requiring special screening for students prior to clinicals? What about travel restrictions? Some hospitals are not allowing staff to work if they have recently traveled to high risk areas. Are such rules being applied to students, too?
(I coordinate student experiences for a hospital and am trying to keep track of what's happening throughout the country in this regard.)
today was supposed to be our last day of Spring break. we now have school completely suspended (not just online but no school whatsoever) for 2 weeks. I know all our hospitals where we had been having clinicals have shutdown to both medical and nursing students. we have no idea what is going to happen. we were on track to graduate mid May.
All of our clinicals are off till further notice, and Spring break was extended a week.
What SCHOOL do you attend?
1 hour ago, harvestmoon said:
today was supposed to be our last day of Spring break. we now have school completely suspended (not just online but no school whatsoever) for 2 weeks. I know all our hospitals where we had been having clinicals have shutdown to both medical and nursing students. we have no idea what is going to happen. we were on track to graduate mid May.
I'm in Santa Clara county and all classes have been moved online and today we were informed that ALL clinical hours have been cancelled until further notice. This seriously has me freaking out and hoping my semester isn't jeopardized at this point...
I could care less about my semester, I want safety above all
What school do you attend? I’m trying to see if we can get cancelled as well
My hospital is no longer allowing students, interns, or volunteers to enter facility. The only exception is post-doc fellows who may be responsible for their own patient panels.
Given we typically have a mix of social work, nursing, psychology, medical, pharmacology, and NP students rotating through at any point in time I'm sure this will impact several schools.
May I ask what school you attend? Or simply which state?
It would be GREAT for these idiotic schools to allow us to complete all didactic courses and circle back and complete any remaining clinical hours later
Minneapolis - all hospitals. I had planned to sit for NCLEX in June so this really kinda sucks, but I'm alive and healthy and not intubated in the ICU, so I got that going for me.
On 3/16/2020 at 2:33 AM, the VEGAN Professor said:
May I ask what school you attend? Or simply which state?
It would be GREAT for these idiotic schools to allow us to complete all didactic courses and circle back and complete any remaining clinical hours later
It's not the 'idiotic schools'. California's BRN has that concurrency rule they are unwilling to suspend. Every state has a regulatory agency. Nursing school is not a Choose Your Own Adventure.
I'm a senior nursing student and our clinical were cut short last week. Our classes are still being held on campus, but the hospitals where we were doing our clinical both decided to suspend student clinicals for the nursing students, physical therapy students, and pharmacy students as far as I am aware. I have not been told what we will do to make up those clinical hours as of yet.
Specializes in mental health / psychiatic nursing.
11 hours ago, the VEGAN Professor said:
May I ask what school you attend? Or simply which state?
it would be GREAT for these idiotic schools to allow us to complete all didactic courses and circle back and complete any remaining clinical hours later
This isn't my *school* but rather the hospital at which I'm employed at - we are no longer allowing *any* students with the exception of post-doc fellows (e.g. those who are already managing patient panels independently). I'm on the west coast and we have confirmed cases in my state in addition to a high number of presumed cases (we have limited access to testing).
This isn't a decision from the SCHOOLS in many cases but hospitals moving over to ESSENTIAL personnel only. This is incredibly unusual at the hospital I work at - due to the population we serve we cannot limit visitors generally speaking without violating constitutional rights. However as of this week we have both the approval of the Department of Justice AND the State Legislature to limit entry to essential personnel, clergy, outside medical consults, and patient attorneys only.
This isn't about student access. This is about saving lives.
Hey y’all - Minnesota graduating Nurse here. My practicuum just got cancelled. Are any of your programs talking about how to graduate students in practicuum on time? I don’t think it would be wise to delay the next wave of nurses if this blows up.
harvestmoon, RN
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today was supposed to be our last day of Spring break. we now have school completely suspended (not just online but no school whatsoever) for 2 weeks. I know all our hospitals where we had been having clinicals have shutdown to both medical and nursing students. we have no idea what is going to happen. we were on track to graduate mid May.