NURSING STUDENT GUIDELINES
2006-2007 Academic Year
Welcome to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for your student clinical experience.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Mission:
To enhance the lives of children through excellence in patient care, research, and education.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Vision:
To be the model for addressing children’s health needs by defining, then providing or advocating for:
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Accessible, innovative and excellent patient care;
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Integrated teaching and research; and
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Partnerships in wellness and prevention programs
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Values:
Integrity: Being honest, ethical, and committed to all we do
Respect: Appreciating all people, work, and ideas
Nurturing: Fostering the care, growth and development of the individual
Excellence: Delivering the highest level of care and service
Teamwork: Working together to achieve our goals
When coming to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for your clinical experience, please follow these guidelines:
Identification: You must wear your school identification badge at all times.
Dress Code:
When coming to any Children’s facility to review assigned charts, please follow Children’s business casual dress code policy. Blue denim is never considered appropriate. (Please refer to our Dress Code Policy – attached.) Follow your school’s uniform requirements. Visible body piercings, other than in earlobes, are not permitted. Visible body art such as tattoos should be covered at all time. Artificial nails are not allowed when providing direct patient care.
Policies and Procedures:
You will and your Clinical Instructor will be able to access all policies and procedures. You are to refer to the appropriate policies prior to performing patient care procedures, on any unit, throughout the entire academic year.
Miscellaneous:
When on the unit, students should not monopolize the nurses station and lounges. Use of cell phones should be limited to emergencies only.
WEB PAGE INSTRUCTIONS
www.choa.org
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"Professionals"
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"Nurses" (side menu)
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"Nursing Faculty & Students" (Note: the password will change from one academic year to another)
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Login: university
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Password: faculty04
Go to:
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Complete Method I (full text modules).
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These modules are considered self learning with answer sheets available to you except for answers to the medication calculation test.
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Return the answers to the modules and the medication calculation test to your faculty for grading before clinical begins.
2) Parking/vehicle registration
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Following the same guidelines as above, click on forms.
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Scroll down to 2006 vehicle registration form
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Download this form, complete it and bring to the first day of class. This is very important. If your vehicle is not registered you will have to pay for parking.
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