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Nursing Student Advising Bulletin Summer/Fall Courses 2011 Health Requirements | Background Checks | Health Insurance | Maine Medical Center Compliance | RN-BS Students | Clinical Course Registration Dates | Web page | Grading Policies | MaineStreet Record General Advising InformationSummer registration is fast approaching. Fall registration begins in April. This bulletin will provide information on what each group of students will need to register for appropriate classes. There is a section for graduate students, RN to BS students, students already in clinical courses, students beginning 300-level clinical courses and students in the first two years of the nursing program. After you read the General Advising Information, find your specific section and thoroughly read it. Summer registration begins March 1, 2011 for all current students. Fall registration begins April 11, 2011. Please access the USM Registrar’s web site for specific registration information. You will need to meet with your advisor to obtain an enrollment PIN number for fall registration. Please call your advisor for a registration appointment. Advising appointments should be made beginning Monday, February 14, 2011, to discuss summer classes.
Summer 2011 Fall 2011 *ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS-VERY IMPORTANT!!* All graduate and undergraduate students enrolling in a clinical course for summer and/or fall: You must make sure that your health requirements are submitted to the School of Nursing and up-to-date. Check the web page for information on Health Requirements. Call (207) 780-4802 or email Brenda Webster with questions. Students in all graduate clinical courses and students starting undergraduate Fundamentals: We track health requirements, CPR, and confidentiality agreements beginning with students who are STARTING clinical course work each semester. You will be receiving email communication directing you on how to post your records to our secure tracking site. There will be a fee for this service of $25.00 that you will pay to the company (American DataBank) when you register. We will also require a COPY of your records that will be checked against your tracked data and kept on file. An automatic audit process will inform you when requirements need updating. School of Nursing staff will not contact students regarding late or missing documents; you will be notified that you are not in compliance and taken out of clinical courses. Keep a copy for your record and be prepared to post them once the site becomes available. Students who started clinical courses (including Fundamentals) in the undergraduate program prior to spring 2009 will have their health requirements tracked by the current system and will be notified by SON staff regarding health requirements that need updating. We began requiring background checks for all students starting and continuing in clinical courses after January 1, 2009. If you are beginning clinical courses in fall 2011 (NUR 323/325 in the undergraduate program) you must register for a USM Health Care Background Check. The first page of the link has a release form that you must sign in order for USM to release information about you to our affiliates (clinical agencies). You will not be cleared to start clinical without printing a copy of that form and sending it to Brenda Webster at the address on the form. The company will then conduct a background check on you. If you so request, information that goes to the clinical agencies (affiliates) will also be sent to you. If there is something on your background check that is incorrect you need to contact the company to have it corrected. The compliance officer at the SON will check that each student has completed the check, signed the release and will notify affiliates of any students who have been flagged. The affiliates will have full access to the information in your background check (the compliance officer and the administration at the SON will not) and may or may not require an appointment with you to address issues raised by this check. We will be notified if you are ineligible for clinical experiences according to the affiliate requirements. We consider ineligibility at one institution as ineligibility for all agencies and will stop your progression in the program. Background checks are transferable across institutions and generally are considered adequate for 12-18 months. At this time we will require background checks at the start of your clinical course work and for any significant break in clinical progression. Students will not be allowed into clinical if background checks are not completed and if all immunizations are not on file in our system(s). THE ABSOLUTE DEADLINE FOR ALL REQUIREMENTS (INCLUDING HEALTH REQUIREMENTS, CPR CERTIFICATION, BACKGROUND CHECKS AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE) IS THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO THE START OF THE SEMESTER. IF YOUR REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT COMPLETE, YOU WILL BE REMOVED FROM CLINICAL AND ASSOCIATED DIDACTIC COURSES. If you are enrolling in a clinical course this summer and/or fall, including Fundamentals (NUR 213), Advanced Health Assessment (NUR 602), or Community Partnership for RNs (NUR 419), in addition to health requirements and professional level CPR certification, you will be required to bring a copy of your health insurance card to Brenda Webster, Masterton Rm 122. Maine Medical Center Compliance If summer or fall semester will be your first semester at Maine Medical Center, there are two more compliance requirements that you must meet:
Summer 2011 Registration Summer courses include: CON 321, Health-Related Research; CON 356, Concepts in Community Health; and NUR 419, Community Nursing Partnership for RNs. Brenda Webster will plan each RN’s initial grid for academic planning and do the advising for all course registration. Please contact Brenda at 207 780-4802. Please note that we are reviewing the RN-BS nursing course sequencing. Please contact Brenda Webster to discuss potential changes to the sequencing. Undergraduate Students in Clinical Courses Summer 2011 Registration Summer courses include: CON 321, Health-Related Research; CON 356, Concepts in Community Health; and NUR 427/NUR 428, Child Health lecture and clinical. If you are graduating in December 2011, please contact Brenda Webster so that your name is on a list for the course/or courses you need in order to complete your undergraduate nursing studies fall semester. You must take: NUR 470 Leadership, Management, and Ethics (last 7 weeks of the semester) Graduating seniors will also take NUR 423/425/413, Management of the Critically Ill Adult/Older Adult lecture, clinical and skills lab during the first 7 weeks. Summer and fall registration for clinical courses will require you to register for one large clinical section. Placement in the smaller clinical groups will occur when we receive confirmation from clinical agencies about availability of sites. At that time, you will be assigned a clinical day and time. The majority of clinical times will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays but we will have some Monday evening, Thursday evening and Friday clinical groups. We generally do not know clinical availability until late April for summer and mid to late August for fall. If you have absolutely necessary requests, contact Liz Elliott by March 30, 2011, for summer clinical placement and July 1, 2011, for fall clinical placement. There are no guarantees that requests will be accommodated, but every effort will be made. Students will need to ask other students to change with them for requests after those dates or for requests that cannot be accommodated. USM Graduation and Nursing Convocation are Saturday, May 14, 2011 Following USM Graduation at the Cumberland County Civic Center Saturday morning, the Nursing Programs’ Convocation is held on campus. Convocation includes both a pinning ceremony and the hooding of those receiving their master’s degree. Students are encouraged to go to both graduation and convocation. More details will be available in fall semester. Students Beginning 300 Level Clinical Courses, Fall 2011 Please check your advisor’s office door for available appointment times. Fall courses include CON 321, Health-Related Research; CON 356, Concepts in Community Health; NUR 323/325, Introduction of Adult and Older Adult Health lecture and clinical; NUR 330/331, Mental Health lecture and clinical; NUR 332, Older Adult in the Community; as well as some Community Partnerships. Students registering for NUR 323/325 must have completed CON 302, Pharmacology before fall semester. Please be sure your name has been added to the CONUNDER listserv as information concerning summer and fall clinical courses will come to you through this listserv. If you did not receive this bulletin through email (e.g. a friend let you know about it), you need to email Brenda Webster with your USM email address and set your spam detector so you receive CONUNDER email. Fall semester may start with a clinical day for some students. Clinical Letters, which include information on where to meet faculty, what to wear, where to park, and other information related to the first day, are posted to Blackboard. Many students also need to visit their clinical facility for ID badges and computer training prior to the start of classes. Announcements with this type of information come through the Clinical Letter and the CONUNDER listserv. Descriptions of Community Nursing Partnerships are available on the College of Nursing and Health Professions web site under Students, Nursing Resources. Community Partnerships engage students in partnership-building, risk identification and health promotion within a community-based context. Over the course of two 2-credit semesters you will work with one community. Not all of the partnerships on the web site are offered starting in fall 2011. Be sure to check that your choice is available on Course Search in MaineStreet. The Partnerships available in Portland in fall are Clifford School with Janis Childs; Casco Bay Community Partnership with Maggie Fournier and Jan Burson; Healthy Aging/Elder Life Program with Noreen Byrne Vincent; Southern Maine Area on Aging with Linda Samia; Sagamore Village Partnership with Helen Peake-Godin; Bayside Community with Su Sepples and International Nursing: The USM Health Outreach Project (Dominican Republic) with Whitney Lutz. The Lewiston Partnership is with Jo-Ann Cole and Karen Zuckerman. If you select the Dominican Republic partnership, please note that there is an application process. Check the Partnership web site on the School of Nursing student resources web page for information. Partnership course numbers for the DR are different from the other partnership numbers. The semester before you go to the DR, you will be enrolled in NUR 326 for 1 credit. When you travel to the DR, you are enrolled in NUR 327 for 3 credits. Again, please be aware that a special application for the DR partnership is done prior to enrollment since we generally have more students interested than can be accommodated on the trip. All applicants are reviewed and selected prior to enrollment. Partnerships run over two semesters and you stay with the same Community Partnership for the entire Partnership sequence. If you decide to leave your partnership you must start over with a new partnership in NUR 339. College of Nursing and Health Professions Web Page The College of Nursing and Health Professions web page is a wealth of information and we occasionally add new items. It makes sense to check it out from time to time! Students in the First Two Years of the Nursing Program Attention 1st and 2nd Year Students or Students not going on to Nursing Clinicals! Please email Karen Martel at or call 207 228 – 8182 to schedule a pre-registration appointment. Spaces fill quickly so call ASAP! Advising is particularly important related to when you take the following nursing courses: NUR 212/213, Nursing Arts and Sciences and Fundamentals of Nursing Lab; NUR 209/210, Total Health Assessment and Lab; and CON 302, Pharmacology. NUR 212/213 and NUR 209/210 must be taken within 1 year of starting the upper division nursing courses (NUR 323/325, Introduction to Adult/Older Adult Health Nursing and clinical). If they are taken more than 1 year before starting NUR 323/325 they will have to be repeated, regardless of the grades received the first time the courses were taken. Pharmacology, CON 302 must be taken prior to enrollment in NUR 323/325. It will have to be repeated if taken more than two academic semesters before enrollment in NUR 323/325. You must have an overall GPA of 2.75 and a GPA of 2.67 in required science courses in order to start upper division clinical/theory courses that begin with NUR 323/325 Introduction to Adult/Older Adult Health Nursing lecture and clinical. Students must attain a grade of C (73) or above in all prerequisite courses and all required CON and NUR courses or the course/s will have to be repeated. If a student does not attain a C or higher in one or two nursing courses, these courses may be repeated. If a student receives a third grade of C- or lower, his/her record will be reviewed and the student may be dismissed from the nursing major. A grade of fail in a clinical course is considered the same as a grade of C- or below in a theory course. A grade of low pass is also a possibility in a nursing clinical course. If a student receives more than one low pass grade in a clinical, the second low pass grade is considered the same as a failure. When students attain a C- or lower in a theory course or a second low pass or fail in a clinical course, their progression in NUR required courses stops until an acceptable grade has been achieved in that course (according to the policies stated in the USM undergraduate catalog). Check your MaineStreet RecordYou are strongly encouraged to check your academic record every semester to make sure there are no unresolved grade issues. Have a temporary incomplete? Work on it before it becomes an “F”. Get in touch with the faculty and make a plan to complete the course as soon as possible. You are your own best advocate when it comes to your academic record. Need help accessing MaineStreet? Check out this handy guide.
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