May not enter orders into the electronic medical record. May not take shift report without the patient's assigned on-coming RN or CDF present. All students will be expected to perform nursing care measures according to established standards, document nursing care, treatments and medications in either echart or the patient's paper medical record, and contribute to the care planning process. Students may work with routine I.V.s, administer I.V. piggyback medications, and may start peripheral I.V. lines if they are educationally prepared and have direct supervision by the staff or instructor. Students will document care delivered including medication administration Students will have access to echart after competency testing in the Clinical Computer Training Center and a signed UAMS Confidentiality Agreement.
Student orientation is a shared responsibility of faculty and staff in the clinic.
The nursing staff members serve as role models and maintain primary responsibility for the patient and family. The staff members will share responsibility for assisting the students to maximize learning activities. Faculty will share with staff members specific expectations of the students according to current level in the program. The staff members reserve the right to intervene or even stop a student from performing any nursing measure the nursing staff feels in inappropriate or potentially injurious to the patient. Any nursing standard procedure may be performed by the students provided they have performed the task previously under the supervision and guidance of the nursing instructor.