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Services Currently Not OfferedClick below for more info on services we are unable to provide at this time through PLU Counseling Services.Services Currently Not ProvidedServices Currently Not Provided: Intensive, long-term, or weekly open-ended therapy.  Possible indicators for longer term or more intensive therapy include: Recent or multiple psychiatric hospitalizations. Chronic thoughts of suicide, frequent self-injury behaviors, or history of repeated suicide attempts. Evidence or risk of

The MSK program is currently closed for accepting new applications until further notice. Join our mailing list if you would like to receive updates when the program resume accepting admission applications. /*

Clinical SupervisorsOur department faculty also serve as supervisors for Therapists-In-Training. Additional professionals from community agencies are employed at PLU to serve as supervisors. All supervisors are considered to be experts in their fields and work closely with our students to ensure a high standard of education for them as well as a quality service for our clients. Supervisors are Approved Supervisors of the American Association for Marriage & Family Therapists (AAMFT) or the

Clinical Evaluations All students will receive feedback (written and oral; formative and summative) from faculty regarding their performance during the clinical rotation (Clinical Evaluation Tool and Criteria for Satisfactory Performance) found in your Learning Management System. The length of a clinical rotation will dictate the frequency of formal evaluation sessions. In all clinicals, students are evaluated at least twice – at the middle and end of the course. Students should be aware that

Our partners in clinical rotationsAll PLU pre-licensure and advanced-practice nursing programs are clinically-intensive, to provide the high level of direct patient contact time necessary for superior clinical preparation.  PLU arranges all student clinical rotations and preceptorships.  The PLU School of Nursing contracts with over 100 local hospitals and agencies, thus providing its students a broad exposure to the many nursing care settings that employ graduate-prepared nurses, including

Teaching & LearningHere you will find a wide range of resources and opportunities for all who teach at PLU, in any stage of your career. The goal is to assist all faculty in their continual growth as excellent teachers – by providing opportunities to improve the quality of your teaching, to increase your comfort with new technologies in the classroom, to create a more inclusive classroom, to develop more effective assessment tools of your students’ learning…and more!Syllabi StatementsUpdated

The student’s first time performing ANY skill in clinical must be observed by the PLU Clinical Faculty member.* Students can Independently Students can with RN Direct Supervision* ●     Therapeutic communication ●     Motivational interviewing ●     Initial shift assessment & charting ●     Focused assessment & charting ●     Risk Assessments (Fall, skin, etc.) ●     8hr I&O: oral/IV/Urine/BM/Drains ●     Patient teaching & Teach-back ●     Bedside Report & Handoff  to RN Partner ●     Vital

students with technical procedures. Faculty must be available to directly assist students as needed, or when necessary and based on demonstrated student competence, ensure appropriate staff registered nurse oversight of student performance of procedures. All faculty clinical health requirements and agency on-boarding must be up-to-date prior to the start of each clinical rotation. Clinical teaching is an active teaching and practice role involving the intentional exchange of teaching-learning

Teaching SquaresAre you interested in learning with and from your colleagues about pedagogy? Do you wish to get inspired by the awesome things happening in other people’s classrooms? Do you want non-evaluative feedback about your teaching from your peers? If so, you might be interested in joining a Teaching Square!What is a teaching square?Teaching Squares are an opportunity for faculty to gain insight into their own teaching through a non-evaluative process of reciprocal classroom observation