Clinical Requirements
Clinical for those refreshing or reactivating falls into a completely different legal category than you previously experienced. Please read this carefully.
Reactivating a lapsed/expired license: If the NPA states that you must take a refresher course with clinical component to reactivate a lapsed/expired license, you will take clinical. If it does not specifically require clinical, you cannot do clinical through our company.
It is your responsibility to understand the rules of your state and your own eligibility for re-licensure. If you have a unique situation, get your waiver in writing from the Board. Some Boards have confusing rules. Make sure you understand exactly what is expected of you BEFORE you enroll in this course.
Actively licensed nurses click HERE
Complaints, Board orders, Disciplinary proceedings: click HERE
If you are straddling states: click HERE
Clinical rules and the restrictions placed by the facilities are simply LIABILITY protections, not personal insults. We cannot guarantee that you will find a clinical placement or a job after reactivation. If you have ANY criminal convictions, including misdemeanors on your background check , you are ineligible for clinical placement.
Things you will need BEFORE you go into a clinical area::
A signed and executed Affiliation Agreement with the facility agreeing to precept you. You CANNOT go in the clinical area until that contract is signed and in force, copies of all of your documents are in this office, financial obligations are met and we have notified you that you are cleared to start. Going to clinical without a 'green light' from us is automatic failure of the course. There is NO readmission after a clinical failure.
Temporary nursing license or practice letter, from the Board of Nursing.
Malpractice and personal/general liability insurance for a REGISTERED NURSE. You must have BOTH malpractice and personal/general liability of one million dollars per incident with a minimum three million dollar aggregate. Numerous insurers provide this. Check with your home owners insurance about a rider or do a web search for nursing malpractice insurance. You need to send us a copy of the actual policy, NOT the letter that you paid for it.
CPR for healthcare provider, adult and pediatric. Must be either American Red Cross or American Heart Association. You must go to a testing center and do the mannequin.
ALL students placed in a clinical setting are required to have a full background check and drug screening. We use Precheck. The school code is 7683. You need to select BOTH the background check and the drug screening. INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING YOUR BACKGROUND CHECK and DRUG SCREENING FOR A CLINICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM. A positive background check or drug screen will make you ineligible for clinical rotations. If you are taking prescription medication that will show up on the drug screen, please have a copy of that prescription with you at the time of the drug test so that it can be noted on your file. If you do not, the Medical Review Officer will flag your test and it could take weeks to resolve the issue.