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BSN STUDENT HANDBOOK
Working Students |
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Recommendation for Maximum Hours Worked |
It is recommended that a student's combined employment and semester-hour load not exceed 16-20 hours per week in either regular or summer semesters. |
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Agency documentation of student clinical skills for employment |
Some agencies require documentation from the School of Nursing for nurse technician positions. This documentation may be obtained through SON Undergraduate Student Services. |
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Students working in a health care setting while a nursing student |
Students should be aware that the School of Nursing assumes no responsibility for their activities as an employee of an agency. Students are personally responsible and liable for any activity in which they participate while employed. Individuals who practice illegally (i.e. outside the scope of their job) may jeopardize their future since persons who are convicted of a violation of the Nurse Practice Act may not be eligible to write the NCLEX examination and subsequently receive licensure. |
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Limits of professional liability insurance |
Professional liability insurance purchased by students through the School of Nursing is only valid in their student role, not their employment role. Information on insurance requirements is available elsewhere in this handbook. |
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Student responsibility to refuse to participate in activities beyond their
job descriptions in the work environment while students |
Students may be employed as nursing technicians, performing functions for which they have been trained by the institution and for which the institution has a clearly discernible policy either in writing or precedent, defining the scope of these functions. Any individual not licensed in the State of Texas to practice professional nursing, and who engages in such practice, is doing so illegally and may be prosecuted accordingly. Supervision by a professional licensed nurse does not provide protection to the student or make the student's actions legal. Students employed in an agency have responsibility, personally and professionally, to engage in only those activities which fall within their job description as non-professional workers (i.e. nursing technician). They have a responsibility to refuse to participate in activities which they have not been legally licensed to perform (i.e. giving medication, assuming total responsibility for a division, etc). |
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