What are your schools doing about COVID and clinical?

Nursing Students SRNA

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Mine has currently gone online with classes. Clinicals are still ongoing for the moment, such as they are with elective cases being cancelled.

we have gone to online classes, community service has been paused and clinicals are now an online format with Swiftriver. I'm in Tx

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1 hour ago, Scotte54 said:

we have gone to online classes, community service has been paused and clinicals are now an online format with Swiftriver. I'm in Tx

How are you able to do clinicals in an online format? Are you in a nursing program?

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its a program picked by our LVN and RN programs "Swiftriver" its online has medpass, patient acuity, dosage calc, med math, mental health, med surg, emergency dept - ED you assign acuity and room, plus diversion, medpass and med surg -you can have multiple patients with call light distractions - all have practice and quiz modes ... its all pretty in depth, I've been pretty surprised and impressed by how in depth it's been - its a pilot program for us right now, but were using it for clinical credit for this Spring semester

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So you are a nursing student, not an SRNA?

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I’m in my senior semester of nursing school, and we’ve switched to online everything. Even our practicum is now online.

I go to school in the panhandle of Florida

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Nursing school student

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I was accepted to nursing school Summer 2020 and it seems that everything is up in the air. They haven’t announced if class will be online or not when other universities have announced that Summer classes are online. Classes begin the first week of May. Really wondering if anyone else who is supposed to start nursing school this Summer what their schools are planning on doing?

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Thank you for the Swiftriver suggestion!

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Specializes in OB/Neonatal.
On 3/24/2020 at 9:42 AM, Scotte54 said:

we have gone to online classes, community service has been paused and clinicals are now an online format with Swiftriver. I'm in Tx

I was reading this forum and suggested to my professor about this website to complete our clinicals. Do you mind telling me what school you attend? I can give you my email if you prefer telling me that way.

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I see zero reason for SRNAs to be in clinical right now. None. I am a clinical coordinator at a major univeristy hospital for 2 separate, unrelated programs, and both of their students have been pulled from clinical for 3 weeks now. There is very little protection for students who contract and get taken out by this virus. It is not like being on staff and getting disability. Also, they are not yet masters of the environment, and as such, are a bigger risk to themselves and those around them in the clinical setting. While it is possible to get sick from any patient, at any time, the risks of being in clinical right now, coupled with the breathtaking lack of PPE puts SRNAs at particularly high risk, with zero upside.

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Nobody wants to be delayed in graduating. Some parts of the country are being hit harder than others, to make a such a blanket call as to shut down all clinical for all programs is ridiculous. Students are experienced ICU nurses at the very least. They can be of value to the team.

Honestly if some students want to go and deal with the risks, go for it. If others want to stay home and potentially be delayed in graduating, that's fine too.

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