Any RN student clinicals cancelled because of COVID-19?

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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.)

Thanks to all those who respond.

Specializes in Neonatal Nursing.

We just found out today that all clinical rotations will be moved to a virtual, online clinical simulation. Not really looking forward to online simulations when we are going into our last quarter and are supposed to be doing back-to-back 12 hour shifts with full patient loads. I guess we will see how this works out.

Specializes in Cardio.

So far we have clinicals continuing in April but that may change.

I’m from NY, we have switched to online, zoom for lectures, respondus for exams and shadowhealth for clinicals! Everything will be done online, it’s so nerve racking not getting actual clinical experience with a real person, I pray this ends soon!

Specializes in MS, Quality, Employee Health.

My DNP Practica was cancelled.

On 3/12/2020 at 1:49 PM, llg said:

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.)

Thanks to all those who respond.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Clinical was initially cancelled thru April 3 then canceled entirely (for the remainder of the semester) following he announcement of stricter state and federal guidelines. We are now using RiverSwift online clinical and al lectures are either pre-recorded and posted or we have synchronous lectures at our regularly scheduled time.

On 3/25/2020 at 12:14 AM, Future_NICU_Nurse_Casti said:

We just found out today that all clinical rotations will be moved to a virtual, online clinical simulation. Not really looking forward to online simulations when we are going into our last quarter and are supposed to be doing back-to-back 12 hour shifts with full patient loads. I guess we will see how this works out.

Would you mind sharing which school you are with?

On 3/17/2020 at 10:32 PM, Devnation said:

I'm an ACNP student in Maryland and clinicals are still in session for both undergrad and grad students, so far. Classes have moved to online.

You're attending in-person practicums?

On 3/15/2020 at 7:41 PM, JayKayAay said:

I’m a student nurse in Toronto (Canada). All classes are moving online and just got the news our placements are on hold for the next three weeks. I’m in an accelerated program (2 years for a BScN) so I’m not sure how we’re going to make up the hours. Hearing rumblings the province is going to be shut down tomorrow onwards ? what a time to be a part of the health care system.

Would you mind letting me know which school you're attending? PM me if possible, thanks!

I'm a bit late to the party, but to answer OP... I am a student of an ABSN program in Ohio. As many of you know, time is already very limited and every hour is intentionally/carefully planned to keep students on track and ready to sit for the NCLEX.

We are currently continuing with all lecture material as planned. Pre-recorded online lectures and bi-weekly Zoom debriefings (answer any questions about content, go over some case studies, etc). As for clinical hours, we have been lucky to purchase "The Point: VSim" software by Wolters Kluwer, which includes quizzes and documents associated with each case. It is a great program so far and the students are responding positively to it. Additionally, we have remained in contact with our hospital clincial instructors and will be meeting with them weekly via Zoom to hear some of their experiences, pick their brains, investigate cases, etc.

It is by no means a perfect situation but we are working with what we have to move forward. Hope this helps!

My school has announced Summer semester will be online now as well. This Summer is set to be our final semester. We don’t know yet if we’ll be allowed in our final practicums or how this will all work for licensing considering we graduate in August and might not have seen a hospital floor since early March. It’s frustrating because nearly all the schools around us are still going to their clinicals as only one of the two hospitals in the city is closed off to students. The one most of us have clinical at is still open. Needless to say, we’re all very stressed of what the future could hold. Many of us have job offers, and now we don’t know if we can even be licensed this fall.

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