First Day of Clinical for N317Nursing Care of Children/329 Public Health NursingClinicals Fall 2015

America’s Promise School Project (APSP).

These are the integrated Nursing Care of Children and Public Health Nursing clinical experiences to which ALL students are assigned.

.WednesdayAM Clinical Sections: Please note CLINICAL ORIENTATION is on Wed, August 19 and 26, 2015.

Section 2—Brigham & Cedar Ridge Elementary Schools—Nina Posada, MSN, RN

Section 3—CUSD #4 Heyworth Schools—Peggy Jacobs, DNP, CNM

Section 6—CUSD #140 Eureka HS, Middle School, & Davenport Elementary Schools:Lynn Kennell, MS, RN

Section 7—District 87 Washington & Sheridan Elementary Schools –Yvette Pigman, MSN, APRN

Section 8—CUSD #19 Ridgeview Schools: Denise Hammer, MSN, RNC

Section 11—Unit 5 Fox and Pepper Ridge Elementary Schools: Mary Cranston, MS, RN

FridayAM Clinical Sections:Please note CLINICAL ORIENTATION is on Friday, August 21 and 28, 2015

Section1—District 87 Bloomington High School—Yvette Pigman, MSN, APRN

Section 4—Unit 5Parkside Jr High and Fairview Elementary:Carla Pohl, DNP, CNM

Section 5—District 87Stevenson and Oakland Elementary: Mary Cranston, MS, RN

Section 9—Unit 5 Normal Community and Normal West HS:Holli Painter, MSN, RN

Section 10—District 87 Bent Elementary and Raymond Early Childhood Elementary: Peggy Jacobs, DNP, CNM

Section 12--Unit 5 Colene Hoose & Oakland Elementary—Denise Hammer, MSN, RNC

  • All clinical groups will meet at 8:15am on the6th floor of Milner Library for these first 2 weeks.Please wear your MCN uniform: white top, black scrub pants, lab coat and name tag. Plan to stay till approximately 12:30pm.
  • It is essential that you review your clinical documents ahead of time and bring questions! All clinical requirements are located in the Resources and Materials tab in N329 Public Health Nursing in Reggienet under CLINICAL IN APSP.

OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois(CHOI), Peoria, IL —Each student will have one 7-hour clinical experience at CHOI that is

designated on the clinical calendar for your clinical section.. These are the names of the clinical faculty:

Friday PM AnnNeavor, APN, MSN

SaturdayPM Jennifer Stouffer, APN, MSN

Friday & Saturday PM Jenna Ford, APN, MSN

  • This is the website for OSF St Francis Medical Center. CHOI is one building therein:. Plan to park in the North Parking Deck which is labelled as A on the map. Try to carpool and park on the upper decks. Enter through the main connection to the hospital from the North Parking Deck, and stay to the right as this will take to you towards the Children’s Hospital. Watch for the “Canticle to the Sun” on the right—a beautiful artistic rendition of the poem by St Francis of Assisi. Your clinical faculty will meet you there.
  • Saint Francis Medical Center is working to meet continually changing regulatory requirements, while trying to simplify everyone’s workload. We are currently working to meet the Joint Commission requirement that all students complete an orientation to the Medical Center similar to our employee orientation.
  • 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 9/5/2015!!Thanks!

Please be sure to bring the Peds Mini Assessment form with you for this Participative-Observation! We will talk about this more in 317 on the first day of class.If you have any questions, feel free to call Lynn Kennell at 309-438-2365 or email . Welcome Aboard!