{"id":1109,"date":"2017-12-04T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/?page_id=1109"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:19:10","slug":"clinical-experiences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/clinical-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>Clinical experiences provide the student with an opportunity to observe and work with a professional nurse at a clinical agency.\u00a0 This learning experience is an integral part of achieving course objectives and practicing skills in a real-life environment.\u00a0 Most clinical experiences are on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the junior and senior years of the nursing program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinical Agency Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We partner with a variety of clinical agencies to provide our students the best clinical experiences in public and private settings.\u00a0 Some of our current partnerships are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Allina &#8211; Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis, MN)<br \/>\nChildren&#8217;s Hospital of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)<br \/>\nFairview Ridges Hospital (Minneapolis, MN)<br \/>\nFairview Southdale Hospital (Minneapolis, MN)<br \/>\nMayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)<br \/>\nNorthfield Hospital (Northfield, MN)<br \/>\nRice County Public Health (Faribault, MN)<br \/>\nSteele County Public Health (Owatonna, MN)<br \/>\nVeterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center (Minneapolis, MN)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinical Preceptors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nursing program collaborates with clinical preceptors.\u00a0 Preceptors are nurses who serve as a clinical mentor to the student in a one-on-one clinical experience.\u00a0 The preceptor is an employee of the clinical agency, and their service is voluntary.\u00a0 Selection of preceptors is based on the recommendation of the agency.\u00a0 The relationship between the preceptor and the nursing program is collaborative in support of student learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinical Transportation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students must make their own arrangements for transportation to clinical agencies during the junior and senior years in the nursing program.\u00a0 St. Olaf College and the Nursing Department do not provide cars, college vans or any other means of transportation to students.\u00a0 Clinical experiences will require transportation.\u00a0 It is the student&#8217;s responsibility to cover any financial costs related to their vehicle (insurance, maintenance, gas, parking, bearing the liability for any passengers).<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinical experiences provide the student with an opportunity to observe and work with a professional nurse at a clinical agency.\u00a0 This learning experience is an integral part of achieving course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2095,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1109\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}