Online Clinical Handbook

• Bachelor of Nursing students - Enrol into practicum courses.
• Bachelor of Midwifery students - Enrol into practicum courses.
• Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing - Enrol into courses.

• Placement Information
• Who administers placements?
• How do I hear about placement Information?
• How are placement venues selected by the School of Nursing and Midwifery?

Documentation required for placement

Please refer to the links below of the documents to take to placement on first day.

• Police Checks
• Senior First Aid Certificate
• CPR Annual Updates
• Medicine Calculations
• Immunisations
• All students attending SA venues must read the Placement Orientation Information for Nursing and Midwifery Students (Word Doc, 473KB) and complete attachment 1 (Compulsory Checklist). (This is a Department of Health Requirement to read, then complete Attachment 1).

Submit the below documents to the CPU office:

• Police Checks
• Senior First Aid Certificate
• CPR Annual Updates
• Medicine Calculations

Students are required to submit the above documentation a minimum of 2 weeks prior to their scheduled placement/school visit. Students who do not submit their documentation 2 weeks prior to their placement will have their placement/school visit cancelled.

• Student receives email from Clinical Placement Unit (CPU) regarding dates for viewing and selecting venue preference. Please view FAQs if you are an interstate student as a different protocol is followed.
• At scheduled time (usually 3 months before placement), student goes into the myPlacement to access SPS and submits 3 preferences.
• It is the student's responsibility to check the requirements of the venues, such as: immunisations, shifts expected, location of venue, and Police Certificate (within last 12 months required for Calvary Health Care venues).

• Student Receives another email from CPU instructing them to re-enter the myPlacement to access SPS to view their allocated placement and venue.
• Student is advised via orientation email what to bring to placement, who their facilitator is, facilitator's contact details, time and where to report on the first day of placement.
• Students must take note of the Placement Orientation Information for Nursing and Midwifery Students (Word Doc, 473KB) requirements, immunisations, shifts expected, location of venue, and Police Check (Within last 12 months required for Calvary Health Care venues).
• Under extenuating circumstances students may request a different placement by filling in a variation to placement form.

• Students are required to bring relevant documentation to their placement. All students are required to bring a copy of their Police Certificate with them.
• Students are also required to wear a uniform and name badge.

• Students outside metro Adelaide may be allocated a 'phone contact-clinical facilitator/lecturer'.
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