Nursing Student Success

• Personal health insurance
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification
• TB status within the last 12 months by submitting one of the options:
  • Negative Two-Step TB skin test OR
  • Negative TB screening blood test. (IGRA, T-Spot, QuantiFERON Gold))
  • Documentation of a previously positive TB screening test or diagnosis of TB or Latent TB Infection with a symptom-free questionnaire and chest x-ray results
    that rule-out TB.
• Hepatitis B (“HBV/Hep B/HBsAb”): serological evidence of immunity OR documentation of non-responder status. Special follow-up will be required for
  those whose vaccination series is in process.
• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella IgG: serological evidence of immunity to each. Special follow-up will be required for those whose serological evidence
  suggests that they are not immune.
• Varicella IgG: Serological evidence of immunity. Special follow-up will be required for those whose vaccination series is in process.
• Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine (date must be within 10 years)
• Influenza vaccine (date must be current season, date will depend on time of year)
• Driver’s license or state issued identification.
• Physical examination completed within the last 12 months. PCHS Health History/Physical form must be signed by licensed health care provider and the
  box “The student is cleared to participate in direct patient-care clinical
  practice without limitations” must be checked.

*Note that clinical sites may have additional compliance requirements including COVID-19 vaccination and booster. Students who are assigned to these sites will need to comply with these requirements to participate in clinical.

All proof must be submitted by the first day of the semester in which the clinical experience will occur or the student will be withdrawn from the course.