Clinical Sites
Newman
Regional Health, 1201 West 12th, Emporia KS
Newman Regional Health is a 99 bed facility accredited by the Healthcare
Facilities Accreditation Program. The hospital provides a wide range of
medical and surgical services as well as women's services, critical care,
level II nursery, 24 hour emergency services, sleep center, wound care, outpatient services, chemical
dependency treatment programs, and hospice services. Newman Regional Health has a history of support
for nursing education. A hospital-based diploma nursing program closed
in 1993 and now the hospital gives its full support to the baccalaureate
program offered through ESU Newman Division of Nursing.
Camp Wood, Elmdale KS
Camp Wood is a YMCA facility located approximately 35 miles from Emporia.
Approximately 60-65 campers are at the camp on a weekly basis. Camp Wood
provides learning opportunities for students enrolled in the NU407 Practicum:
Camp Nursing elective course. Students are able to staff the nurses' quarters,
administer medications, and attend many of the camp activities.
Colmery O-Neil Veterans Hospital, Topeka KS
Students go to the veterans hospital for the psychiatric/mental health
nursing clinical experience. This facility is located approximately 55
miles from Emporia and provides a census with a wide variety of psychiatric
mental health conditions. Students participate in one-on-one interaction,
group therapy, team meetings, and activity therapies.
Emporia
Day Care Center III, Emporia KS
The Emporia Day Care Center III agency provides students with excellent
learning experiences. In addition to opportunities to work with newborns,
children from culturally diverse backgrounds and children with special
needs, the student nurses participate in the routine cares provided the
children. Students also evaluate the developmental progression of the
children and identify developmentally appropriate play activities and
stimuli for the children.
Emporia Presbyterian Manor, Emporia KS
Emporia Presbyterian Manor is a continuing care retirement community providing
several levels of living for the older adult client. These levels of living
include: independent living, assisted living, and nursing facility care.
This clinical facility is a part of the Presbyterian Manors of Mid America.
The facility offers students a wide variety of experiences in gerontological
nursing.
Flint Hills Care Center, Inc., Emporia
KS
The Flint Hills Care Center (formerly Vintage Manor) is a progressive,
well organized, long-term adult care facility with multiple client programs
and services. This clinical facility offers students a variety of learning
experiences in nursing foundations and basic skills as well as medication
administration.
Flint Hills Community Health Center,
Emporia KS
The purpose of the Flint Hills Community Health Center is to promote wellness,
prevent disease, and provide early intervention. This clinical facility
offers students opportunities to care for individuals and families through
the immunization clinics, family planning clinic, maternal and infant
care programs, and the Womans, Infants and Children (WIC) program. The
health department also has a busy primary care clinic that provides basic
health care for adults and children including physical examinations and
treatment of minor illnesses. Students also experience the relationship
between community health nursing and environmental health.
Lyon County Jail, Emporia KS
This facility is utilized as a practicum site for senior level nursing students for a community based practice experience. Correctional nursing focuses on health for incarcerated individuals. Students participate in coordinating the immediate or long term health needs of incarcerated individuals with the issue of public safety. In addition they perform assessments, administer medications, and develop and implement health teaching in a unique atmosphere with other multi-discpline health care providers.
Morris County Health Department, Council Grove KS
At Morris County Health Department senior level nursing students have learning opportunities specific to the care of aggregates and communities. This facility provides professional public health nursing service, including immunizations, WIC nutrition program, family planning, nursing clinics, child care facilities, education, environmental health services, senior services, and home and community based services.
St. Joseph's School in Olpe, KS and
The Emporia Christian School, Emporia KS
These schools afford students opportunities to participate in a "mass" school screening program. Students participate in scoliosis, vision, hearing,
and growth and development screenings and gain information on organization
and preparation of mass screens. Students also receive experience in documenting/analyzing
findings, making referrals, and setting up a mechanism for follow-up of
identified health risks/problems.
Student
Health Services, Emporia State University, Emporia KS
Students work with RNs and ARNPs who provide cares to college students
who seek health services at the university's student health services department.
Tyson Fresh Meats, Emporia KS
This facility is utilized as a practicum site for senior level nursing students for a community based practice experience. Students have opportunity to perform assessments, provide care, develop and implement health teaching to a population aggregate. Students learn about workers' compensation and OSHA regulations as it impacts the industrial world specifically and the community as a whole.
Unified School District #253, Emporia KS
This public school system provides nursing students an opportunity to
see the role of the school nurse and to observe the reactions of mostly
well children to minor and chronic illnesses and to the treatments rendered.
Students gain practice in assessing minor illnesses and injuries in children
and in assisting in vision, hearing, scoliosis screenings. Immunization
schedules are also reviewed.
Via
Care Home Health LLC, Emporia KS
Nursing students observe and work with RNs at ViaCare Home Health to provide
cares to patients in their homes. Students experience a variety of learning
opportunities that include follow-up for medical and surgical patients
across the lifespan.
Wesley Medical Center, Wichita KS
The Wesley Medical Center pediatric unit is utilized to provide students
opportunities to care for children and families with a wide variety of
needs and illnesses. Students also have opportunities to work with advanced
practice nurses and clinical nurse specialists in the pediatric intensive
care unit. This facility is located in Wichita approximately 80 miles
from Emporia.
Observation
Experiences
A number of local agencies and institutions provide observational experiences
for nursing students, including the Central Care Cancer Center, Fresenius, Hand in Hand Hospice, Emporia Recreation Center, Tyson Fresh Meats,
USD 251, USD 252, and the Special Education Coop.