EMT Paramedic Program Clinical Rotation Policy

1. There are a total of 696 hours of clinical rotations needed to complete the paramedic program. Students will only be allowed to sit for the course final and practical exams if all of the clinical time has been satisfactorily completed.
2. Dress code for the clinical rotations is as follows:
   1. Your ID must be worn at all times while in the hospital/HSC.
   3. Ambulance: Blue or green pants, white shirt, blue or green jacket. No squad jackets are allowed.
      
      OR, Burn Unit, L&D, NICU - scrubs will be issued.
   5. All other rotations: Pants, shirt and tie for men, appropriate attire for women. Shoes, not sneakers are required for all rotations. A lab jacket is required for all rotations at the hospital. No jeans or leggings are allowed at any rotations.
   Students not appropriately attired will be sent home and will receive a failing grade for that rotation.
3. Paramedic students must successfully complete paramedic ambulance clinical rotations at ALL scheduled ambulance venues. At this time, those venues are: Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica Hospital, Maimonedes Hospital, Flushing Hospital, Lutheran Medical Center, St. Clare's Hospital, and Lenox Hill Hospital.
   1. In keeping with the policies of the above venues, students may be tested for controlled substances prior to the beginning of clinical rotations. This testing will be at the program’s expense at a facility of the program’s choosing. Positive test results or a refusal to test will be grounds for termination from the program.

Schedules will be available by the 20th of the month preceding the month that you are signing up for rotations. There will be a cut off date to complete specific rotations. This means, as an example, that when the burn unit is available for rotations, all students must complete the one rotation within a designated time period (45 days).

4. It is the student’s responsibility to bring to the attention of the Course Director any problems that they encounter with regard to any component of the rotations including difficulty scheduling, etc.
5. For all rotations, you should arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled start time. You will have specific clinical forms to complete depending upon that unit to which you are going. Forms must be date/time stamped in the SHTM student mail room office when you come in and when you leave. Forms not fully stamped will not be credited, and the student will receive an absence for that rotation. All forms must be submitted to the instructor coordinator in class no later than the last class day of the week. This means that if you do any rotations from Thursday midnight until the following Thursday afternoon, you must submit all of these forms at class on Thursday. Any forms not submitted within this time frame will be counted as Clinical failures. (see below)
6. Successful completion of any given clinical rotation means that you arrived on time, left on time, spent your time on the clinical unit, participated in care at the appropriate level, completed case histories as directed, and were judged as competent by your preceptor. If all of the above are successfully done, the preceptor will score the clinical rotation as “passed.” If any of the above are not done for a rotation, then that rotation will be deemed as “Failed.” Any student that receives 2 failing grades for clinical rotations will be placed on clinical probation. Any student who receives a total of 4 clinical failures during the program will be terminated. Any hours that are failed must be redone and passed.
7. The instructor coordinators will make spot checks on the various clinical units to ensure that you are being treated appropriately, to check into what you have done so far in that rotation, and to interface with your preceptors. With the exception of meal breaks or at the direction of your preceptor, you are expected to be on the units as assigned.
8. The clinical rotations have an attendance policy. If you can't make a rotation, you must call the Director at 631-553-4745 at least one hour in advance of your scheduled start time. This absence will be counted as an “authorized absence.” Any absences not documented in this manner are unauthorized and may result in termination from the program.
9. Authorized absences from clinical rotations count in the same manner as absences from class. As per the Academic Policy and Procedures, you are allowed a maximum of 10 absences (counting both authorized absences from clinical rotations and absences from class). **If you exceed 10 absences, you will be terminated from the paramedic program.
10. Students who are late or absent to clinical rotations may be forced to wait until all other students are finished selecting clinicals for the following month.
11. It is imperative that you arrive on time for your clinical rotations. If you are late for a clinical rotation, you must either stay later to make up for the lateness or the rotation will be counted as a lateness. It is not possible to make up for a lateness at an ambulance rotation due to the nature of the rotation, nor can you stay later at any rotation if another paramedic student is scheduled during that time. As per the Academic Policy and Procedures, you are allowed a maximum of 10 latenesses for the program. **If you exceed 10 latenesses, you will be terminated from the paramedic program.

**You are allowed either 10 absences or 10 latenesses or a combined total of 15 occurrences of both combined. If you exceed 10 absences or 10 latenesses or a combined total of 15 occurrences, you will be terminated from the paramedic program.