Clinical is a required part of the nursing curriculum.
Students must meet the following criteria to attend clinical:
Nursing Assistant
Students must pass a criminal background check before beginning the course. Because LCC must comply with health care agency requirements, a positive finding or a pending charge in a background check may exclude the student from completing the nursing assistant course. Some crimes disqualify a person from giving patient care. Clinical agencies retain the right to refuse placement to a student with a history of certain offenses. For additional information, see Disqualifying Crimes.Required Expenses - applicant's responsibility
- Criminal background check
- TB test or chest X-ray
- Current First Aid and American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS CPR certification
Recommended Vaccinations
While vaccinations are not required at this time for our nursing assistant rotation, the clinical agencies our program works with highly recommend the following:- Staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccination and boosters per current CDC guidance.
- Vaccinations against hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and varicella.
Please Note:
As healthcare providers have a duty to protect those under their care, vaccination against several communicable diseases, including COVID-19, is a requirement
for students admitted to a healthcare program at LCC.
Please Note:
As healthcare providers have a duty to protect those under their care, vaccination against several communicable diseases, including COVID-19, is a requirement for students admitted to a healthcare program at LCC.
Nursing
Students must pass a criminal background check and drug screen before beginning the nursing coursework. Because LCC must comply with health care agency requirements, a positive finding in a background check or drug screen may exclude the student from enrolling or completing the nursing program. Some crimes disqualify a person from giving patient care. Clinical agencies retain the right to refuse placement to student with a history of certain offenses. For additional information, see Disqualifying Crimes.
Students must also provide documentation of selected immunizations, show a Social Security card, present a current first Aid card and Healthcare Provider CPR card (American Heart Association) prior to registering for nursing courses. Expenses incurred are the responsibility of the student. Admission to the nursing program is contingent upon compliance with all clinical requirements prior to beginning cohort courses (those courses restricted to students who are admitted to the program). Students will be asked to attest to the intent of clinical compliance prior to being registered for cohort courses.
Required Expenses - applicant's responsibility
- Comprehensive criminal background check - See Nursing Program Disqualifying Crimes
- Two (2) step tuberculin (TB) skin test, Quantiferon Gold blood test, or chest x-ray (with previous reaction to skin test)
- Two (2) doses of MMR vaccine or titer showing individual immunity to all three components (measles, mumps, and rubella)
- Two (2) doses of Varicella vaccine or titer showing immunity
- Hepatitis B vaccination series and titer
- Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (TDAP) adult vaccination within the past ten (10) years
- Urine drug screen within 60 days of beginning program
- Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification
- Current first aid certification (not required for LPN-entry)
- Personal healthcare insurance coverage
- ACEMAPP (clinical placement management system) annual fee
- Vaccination against COVID-19*
* At this time, clinical agencies are recognizing full vaccination in the following ways:
- Completing a 2-dose original monovalent series, such as the Pfizer, Moderna, or Novavax series, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine. All monovalent options will be accepted if they were received in the past, but are no longer currently authorized for use by the FDA. On April 18, 2023, the FDA no longer authorized the monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 series, and on May 17, 2023, the Janssen monovalent vaccine expired and is no longer available in the US.
- If not previously vaccinated with one of the above, the current updated bivalent vaccine will be required (Pfizer or Moderna).
Current CDC guidance to Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines.
Please contact the Nursing & Allied Health Programs office for current information about medical or religious vaccine exemptions and clinical placement.
Nursing Assistant
Students must pass a criminal background check before beginning the course. Because LCC must comply with health care agency requirements, a positive finding or a pending charge in a background check may exclude the student from completing the nursing assistant course. Some crimes disqualify a person from giving patient care. Clinical agencies retain the right to refuse placement to a student with a history of certain offenses. For additional information, see Disqualifying Crimes.Required Expenses - applicant's responsibility
- Criminal background check
- TB test or chest X-ray
- Current First Aid and American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS CPR certification
Recommended Vaccinations
While vaccinations are not required at this time for our nursing assistant rotation, the clinical agencies our program works with highly recommend the following:- Staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccination and boosters per current CDC guidance.
- Vaccinations against hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and varicella.
Please Note:
As healthcare providers have a duty to protect those under their care, vaccination against several communicable diseases, including COVID-19, is a requirement
for students admitted to a healthcare program at LCC.
Please Note:
As healthcare providers have a duty to protect those under their care, vaccination against several communicable diseases, including COVID-19, is a requirement for students admitted to a healthcare program at LCC.
Nursing
Students must pass a criminal background check and drug screen before beginning the nursing coursework. Because LCC must comply with health care agency requirements, a positive finding in a background check or drug screen may exclude the student from enrolling or completing the nursing program. Some crimes disqualify a person from giving patient care. Clinical agencies retain the right to refuse placement to student with a history of certain offenses. For additional information, see Disqualifying Crimes.
Students must also provide documentation of selected immunizations, show a Social Security card, present a current first Aid card and Healthcare Provider CPR card (American Heart Association) prior to registering for nursing courses. Expenses incurred are the responsibility of the student. Admission to the nursing program is contingent upon compliance with all clinical requirements prior to beginning cohort courses (those courses restricted to students who are admitted to the program). Students will be asked to attest to the intent of clinical compliance prior to being registered for cohort courses.
Required Expenses - applicant's responsibility
- Comprehensive criminal background check - See Nursing Program Disqualifying Crimes
- Two (2) step tuberculin (TB) skin test, Quantiferon Gold blood test, or chest x-ray (with previous reaction to skin test)
- Two (2) doses of MMR vaccine or titer showing individual immunity to all three components (measles, mumps, and rubella)
- Two (2) doses of Varicella vaccine or titer showing immunity
- Hepatitis B vaccination series and titer
- Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (TDAP) adult vaccination within the past ten (10) years
- Urine drug screen within 60 days of beginning program
- Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification
- Current first aid certification (not required for LPN-entry)
- Personal healthcare insurance coverage
- ACEMAPP (clinical placement management system) annual fee
- Vaccination against COVID-19*
* At this time, clinical agencies are recognizing full vaccination in the following ways:
- Completing a 2-dose original monovalent series, such as the Pfizer, Moderna, or Novavax series, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine. All monovalent options will be accepted if they were received in the past, but are no longer currently authorized for use by the FDA. On April 18, 2023, the FDA no longer authorized the monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 series, and on May 17, 2023, the Janssen monovalent vaccine expired and is no longer available in the US.
- If not previously vaccinated with one of the above, the current updated bivalent vaccine will be required (Pfizer or Moderna).
Current CDC guidance to Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines.
Please contact the Nursing & Allied Health Programs office for current information about medical or religious vaccine exemptions and clinical placement.