CHOI and Carle Foundation Hospital Participative Observation Details and Prep – Site Sheet
Location: Children’s Hospital of Illinois (CHOI) General Pediatrics Unit: OSF St. Francis, 530 NE Glen Oak Avenue Peoria, IL
Carle Foundation Hospital General Pediatrics Unit:
Time and Dates: See CHOI/Carle Calendar. Time 1:00pm to 8:30pm.
Directions to CHOI in PEORIA:Take I-74 West to Peoria. After the bridge look for exit 92B. Turn left on Spaulding Avenue.
Take a right on Glen Oak but be prepared to quickly veer left onto Berkeley Avenue.
Once you pass the Emergency entrance, keep looking right for the next street. Turn right and the Parking deck will be just past the Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center.Directions to the North Parking Deck: . “A is the North Parking Lot”
The building with the 2 red crosses is the MILESTONE Building which houses CHOI.
Your instructor will meet you in the lobby at the entrance to the Milestone Building at 1:00pm. If you stay to the right you will pass the children’s gift shop on the left and then see the beautiful “Canticle to the Sun” prayer of St Francis on the right in pastel colored Plexiglas.The first hour or so will be a tour of the unit as there may be other students from another school of nursing still on the General Pediatrics floor. At 2 pm you will get your assignment from your clinical instructor, and learn who your primary nurse will be for the rest of the evening. Your clinical instructor should give you a print out of information on the child that you will focus on so that you have a bit of background. Use this time to look up a bit about patho, meds, etc. Then get report from your primary nurse around 2:30-3pm (when the other student nurses are done).
Directions to Carle in Urbana: Take I-74 East to Urbana. Take exit 183 for Lincoln Ave. Turn right onto N. Lincoln Ave. Turn Left on W. University: 602 West University AvenueUrbana, IL 61801
You will be getting more detailed instructions in the coming days about where to park from Michele Spading, MS, clinical instructor.
Prior to clinical:
- OSF St Francis requires all of you assigned there to go through an online orientation process. In order to meet that requirement, we have developed an internet site with our orientation content for students’ use. Orientation consists of 15 short modules, and a post-survey that tracks their completion in our database. The online orientation is found at:
- Some students receive a prompt box asking for a user name and a password. If you do, hit “Cancel” and then X out of the prompt box to gain access. This ‘authentication box’ may appear several times. Just click cancel each time, and you can proceed to the next module. Be sure to click on the link under “STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS” after you have reviewed all the modules to verify you have met the OSF HealthCare Orientation requirements. You will be asked to fill in identifying information to validate your completion of the orientation modules. This MUST BE DONE BY 9/3/2016!!Thanks!
- Carle FoundationHospital requires all of you who go there to go through an online orientation process. The links were already sent to you by Tricia Wiegner, and should have been completed by Monday, 8/15/2016.
- Look up: RSV, Reactive Airway Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Sickle cell anemia and Fractures. Be prepared for LOTS and LOTS of respiratory issues. Review in your Nursing Care of Children texts: VS and basic assessment of children under 5 yrs. Old: See Take time at the simulation lab to practice taking blood pressures on a child mannequin.
What to wear: Dress appropriately in MCN uniform, lab coat, ID tag and hair pulled up. Be sure you don’t have anything on your hairband or name badge that might fall off. Be prepared to stay on campus for food.
What to Bring:
- Your stethoscope, wristwatch, penlight, black pen and clipboard.
- A copy of the CHOI/Carle peds mini-assessment care planfor documentation that night
- Personal items are not locked so bring minimal cash and computers into the hospital.
During clinical you will do the following:
- 1:1 with RN for 4-6 hours—you will be assigned to one pediatric patient to focus on. You will get report from the primary RN. More than one student may be with a nurse, so your focus is on your assigned child, with the understanding that you will maximize your learning for this observational experience by telling your primary nurse that you would like to go with her for any med administrations, g-tube feedings, TPN feeding assessments, central line dressing changes, etc.
- One physical assessment (or more if possible) will be done with your clinical instructor.
- Completion of the Mini Peds Assessment and Care Plan which will be submitted under NUR 317Assignments in ReggieNet for CHOI/Carle clinical faculty to grade and return to students electronically.
- Shadow clinical interventions or processes of care
- Feedings
- Med Administration
- Admissions and Discharges
- Respiratory Treatment
- Assist with feedings under supervision (RN and/or clinical faculty member)
- Provide diversion and comfort with child
- Response of child to hospitalization
- Developmentally appropriate diversion
- Learning the role of the child life specialist ( Fri evenings)
- Other appropriate learning opportunities as clinical instructor deems appropriate
What students will not do:
- Give medications unless specifically with clinical instructor
- Document in the health record
- Administer treatments….they may assist with a treatment
- Do procedures (e.g. start an IV)
- Do patient and/or family teaching, they may assist with teaching
If you are ill or have an issue, please contact your assigned CHOI faculty member. You will also need to notify your America’s Promise instructor via e-mail the same day. Make ups will be arranged by the Mary Volle Cranston, clinical course leader
CHOI Clinical Faculty MemberFall 2016
- Jessica Fulton, MSN, NNP, APRN
- Cell: (309)235-7004/ 309-624-0629
Email address:;
Carle Clinical Faculty Member Fall 2016
- Michele Spading, MS, RN
- Cell: 217 898-9668
- Email address: or