Supervision Guidelines and/or agency requirements will be considered unsafe. Examples of unsafe behavior include (but are not limited to):

• Medication errors or failure to report medication errors
• Failure to competently perform nursing skills/tasks
• Performing a nursing task/skill without appropriate supervision and/or without satisfactory skills lab demonstration that circumvents safety policies
• Falsification of records
• Violation of HIPAA/Confidentiality
• Non-therapeutic communication that could lead to client harm
• Ignores or fails to recognize unsafe client situations that could lead to client harm
• Inability to utilize the nursing process or critical thinking/clinical reasoning skills to identify essential care needs of the client
• Instances in which the faculty must intervene to protect the safety of the client or prevent the violation of Nursing Clinical Guidelines.

Failure to perform at the level of a reasonably prudent student and/or adhere to the SON Clinical Supervision Guidelines will result in the immediate removal of the student from the client assignment and dismissal from the clinical area. The student will be assigned a clinical grade of “unsatisfactory” and a disciplinary referral will be initiated. A student who is enrolled in a practicum course(s) and whose performance has been determined as unsafe practice cannot continue with participation in any practicum experiences in the program. A Critical Incident Report will be completed. Copies of the report will be distributed to the student, to the Director of Undergraduate Programs, and placed in the student’s record within two (2) days following each violation. An agency (hospital, clinic, nursing home, etc.) incident report may be required according to the agency’s policy.

Academic Progression and Retention Policies

Once admitted, it is anticipated that the majority of students will progress through the curriculum as designed, achieving “satisfactory progress” in degree completion. All undergraduate students are expected to finish their program within a maximum time frame of 150% (or 1.5x) of the published length of their program.

• Students must take the nursing courses as sequenced. This includes co-requisites.
• Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.8 to be considered for admission to the undergraduate nursing program.