LOSS AND LIABILITY
Standard College is not responsible for the loss of personal property on school property or at the clinical site. Students are cautioned to keep personal possessions either in sight or on their person and said possessions should be properly marked. Students will be instructed where to place personal possessions at the clinical site(s). Students are encouraged not to bring valuables with them to the classroom or clinical site. The student alone is responsible for the safe keeping of his/her personal belongings.
RISK MANAGEMENT
Students are expected to manage their own transportation and assume the risk of traveling to and from class, labs, or clinical experiences and when performing duties in class, labs, or clinical experiences. There are inherent risks involved in travel and in lab and clinical experiences. The most obvious risks are accidents, contracting infections or other communicable diseases or workplace violence. Please take precautions to prevent accidents, infections, and violence.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Infectious/communicable diseases are common in health care settings and students of Standard College may have contact with patients with various infections such a blood-borne transmitted diseases, droplet transmitted diseases, patients/human subjects who are HIV positive or who are infected with Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis B (Hep B), Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), or any number of other communicable diseases. This contact may expose staff to infectious agents that place that individual at risk for succumbing to a communicable disease or for unknowingly transmitting a communicable disease to other faculty, students, patients, or family members. During pregnancy, the fetus may also be at risk. and contact transmitted diseases.
To protect the health and safety of its students, as well as that of patients, Standard College requires:
- Initial infectious disease screenings and pre-exposure immunizations against specified infectious/communicable diseases.
- Post-exposure follow-up/treatment following exposure to specified infectious/communicable diseases.
- Compliance with the infectious/communicable disease policy and protocols of the agency or facility to which they are assigned for clinical practice as well as the guidelines specified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Compliance with the use of standard precautions is all patient care situations.
Any exposure incidence such as an accidental needle stick must follow the clinical agency’s protocol and/or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. All needle sticks in the learning lab must be reported to the instructor.
Students who are exposed to a reportable communicable/infectious disease are required to have their communicable disease risk status assessed by the student’s health care provider. A decision about the risk the student poses to the health and safety of others on campus or while at an affiliated institution will be the responsibility of the health care provider.
A student with a communicable/infectious disease should be aware that the Standard College cannot guarantee placement at affiliate clinical sites for clinical rotations. Students participating in clinical rotations are subject to the requirements and approval of the clinical site.
The student is responsible for any costs associated with the evaluation of his or her condition if not covered by health insurance.
