Professional behaviors for clinical evaluations
Students will demonstrate responsibility and accountability for personal and professional behaviors in all laboratory and clinical settings. Failure to demonstrate any of the following behaviors may result in dismissal from the clinical setting and a grade of unsatisfactory for that clinical day.
- Accept responsibility for own behavior, practice and scholarship.
- Adequately prepare, attend and participate in all clinical practice sessions unless excused by instructor.
- Arrive and depart from the clinical setting promptly.
- Exhibit professional appearance and behavior.
- Maintain privacy and confidentiality.
- Advocate for patients.
- Demonstrate ethical behavior.
- Seek and utilize guidance from instructor and/or staff in an appropriate manner.
- Promote personal growth by self-assessment, self-disclosure, and utilization of feedback.
Maintaining patient safety is an essential foundation of clinical nursing practice. A significant failure to maintain safety (life-threatening or likely to cause permanent disability) may result in immediate failure of clinical, and thus, failure of the course. Demonstrating a pattern of failures in safety, although not immediately life-threatening, also may result in failure of clinical, and thus, failure of the course.