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Specializes in Critical Care.

I am curious as to how I am supposed to sign things as a student in clinicals. Yesterday we had a student help with a urine collection and sign on the bottle. Do we write out "student nurse" after our name or "SN" or are we not allowed to sign at all?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

This is a question best answered by your faculty. Sometimes, what you are allowed to sign off on is dependent on the agreement between the school and the facility where clinicals take place. My school required us to sign as R. Queen, initials of school name, SN. Your school may have a different requirement.

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

There wasn't much for us to sign, but had I needed to, I would have signed SN. The electronic documentation was signed SN.

Your clinical instructor should have that answer for you.

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