Nursing Students and Instructors - Onboarding and Orientation

We look forward to having you as a student in our facility. Learn about nursing at Swedish. For further assistance, questions, or concerns, please visit our Contact Information page.

Nursing Students

Onboarding

Complete as instructed by your clinical coordinator through Clinical Placements Northwest (CPNW) annually:

  • Submit to school coordinator your Clinical Passport supporting documents
  • Complete CPNW self-learning modules

Swedish nursing student orientation consists of three parts:

  • Online Education to be completed prior to instructor lead onsite orientation. This will take several hours to complete.
Education

Review the following:

Complete specialty area content as directed by your instructor:

Nursing instructors only: Review the Instructor Orientation and Resources to complete your additional orientation requirements.

Disabled account access

If you are having any access issues, please contact your school coordinator.

Student - Undergraduate Nurse Orientation
Epic training

Log in with your Providence Network LoginID followed by "@providence.org" (example: firstname.lastname@providence.org) and password created. Access the Epic training for Nursing Students and complete the Inpatient Nursing Units content.

Click on the following link for the Student Attestation Form and confirm that you completed the required Epic training for your rotation.

You will not receive credit for completing Epic training without your written confirmation and your access will be deactivated one week after start date.

Student - Senior Practicum Precepted Undergraduate Nurse

Review modules above and:

If you are going to Labor & Delivery or Emergency Department for senior practicum please note there is additional training in the Epic training site linked above.

If you are going to an outpatient/ambulatory clinic, complete the following Epic training for nursing students

Click on the following link for the Student Attestation Form and confirm that you completed the required Epic training for your senior practicum.

Evaluation of online orientation
  • Completion of the Online Orientation Evaluation form will allow us to improve this site and/or validate its continued support. Specific comments are particularly helpful if you have suggestions for improvement. Every evaluation is read.
Clinical Objectives Communication Form (Students Only)
  • Print the Clinical Objectives Communication form and cut in half along the dotted line.
  • Complete form and give it to the RN(s) you are assigned to work with (a new form each day).
  • Not required for students in final quarter of school and assigned to a staff nurse preceptor. But, it does have a list of interventions nursing students may not perform for your information.
Other Helpful Information
  • Identification Badges: Swedish does not provide identification badges for students. You are to wear your school photo identification badge when in clinical. ID is to be worn and visible (not carried in a pocket) at all times while at a Swedish facility.
  • Directions and Parking

Instructors

Please contact us for further assistance.

Onboarding

Complete through Clinical Placements Northwest (CPNW) annually:

  • Submit to school coordinator your Clinical Passport supporting documents
  • Complete CPNW self-learning modules
Orientation
  • As an instructor at Swedish, you are required to complete the same orientation as the students in addition to reading the instructor material
  • Onboarding and online orientation modules are to be completed prior to any clinical site visit and prior to students arriving on campus for their clinical experience.
  • Provide students direction on which additional modules to complete during their online orientation pertinent to the skills they will be practicing or unit/specialty assigned to
  • Complete the “Orientation for Nursing Students and Faculty” above. This is an annual requirement.
Additional instructor orientation material and resources

Evaluation of online orientation

Completion of the Online Orientation Evaluation form will allow us to improve this site and/or validate its continued support. Specific comments are particularly helpful if you have suggestions for improvement. Every evaluation is read.