In order to comply with all standards established by the Orange County/Long Beach Consortium for Nursing and various clinical agencies attended by students throughout the program certain health and safety information and records must be maintained in each student file. Each student must submit to the program director or her designee documented proof (copies are acceptable) that the following requirements have been met and are current. The faculty suggests the student utilize this page to keep an active record of all expiration and/or renewal dates for each of these standards. In addition, copies should be maintained in a file by the student.

Malpractice Insurance
A copy of current Malpractice Insurance (renewed annually).

Background Check
Nursing students go to the local medical centers with their nursing instructors to provide nursing care for patients. The medical centers require that students comply with all policies of the medical center; therefore, a clear background check is required.

A clear background check must be obtained by each student admitted to the Associate Degree Nursing Program. The clearance must be obtained by each student admitted to the Vocational Nursing Program, must be dated within two months of admission, and must be presented to the program director prior to enrollment in the first course of the program (Common Health Deviation I - VN230). The background check must include all names that were used within the past seven years, all addresses for the past seven years, any sexual offense, any abuse of others, and any medical fraud. Forms will be provided for students to purchase the background check. Only one background check is required if the student remains in continuous enrollment.

For additional information regarding background checks, click on the following link:

1. All clinical agencies require clear background checks
2. Cost : $48.00 approximately
3. Please submit to Precheck www.precheck.com
   • Click on Studentcheck link and then click student button

Missing or updated information must be provided to the program director by the student BEFORE the first clinical day or he/she will not be permitted to attend clinical. Any clinical day missed due to an incomplete file will count as a clinical absence (behavioral objectives for the day not met).