Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences (PCHCS)—Department of Health Science 2024–2025 191 • Artificial nails, nail art, and acrylic nails or nail extensions may not be worn. • Nails must be trimmed to ¼” past the tip of the finger. Nail polish must not be chipped or cracked. • Any visible tattoos must be covered. • Body piercings are limited to two per ear, and any jewelry worn cannot extend below the earlobe. All other body piercings must be covered. • Phones or any other personal device(s) must be in silent mode in lab areas. • Talking, texting, or any other form of accessing such personal devices is only permitted while on break and not in lab areas, unless specifically approved by your instructors. • Students must wear their approved NSU ID badges in plain view while on campus and on clinical rotations at all times. • Students may not wear the following at any time either on campus or at a clinical externship location: shorts or cutoffs; miniskirts (higher than mid-thigh); jeans (all colors); see-through clothing or halter tops; sandals, flip-flops, or any other type of open-toed shoe; non-university or non-program logo T-shirts (as the outer shirt); jogging or exercise clothing; any type of head covering, including, but not limited to, hats, caps, scarves, shawls, or wraps of any kind, unless of a religious nature. Failure to comply with dress code policies is considered to be unprofessional behavior and may result in the student being referred to the CSP for unprofessional behavior. Students will be required to sign the Dress Code Policies Agreement Form upon matriculation into the program, attesting to their understanding of and their agreement to follow all the above dress code policies. Clinical Externships and Assignment • The second year of study in the B.S.—MS/M.H.Sc. program consists of clinical externships. The student will be assigned an appropriate clinical externship site. Clinical externships consist of three terms for a total of 48 weeks. • Clinical externships placement: The student’s initial clinical externship placement is assigned during the third term (summer) of the first year of study by the clinical coordinators. • There are a limited number of available local clinical externship sites at any given campus location. The university does, however, enjoy affiliation agreements for clinical externships with many excellent and renowned hospitals and learning facilities outside of the immediate campus area, as well as across the state, region, and the country. • For the second year of clinical externship experience, the student must be prepared to accept assignment to a clinical externship location that may be out of the immediate area of the NSU campus, out of the region, or even out of state. Refusal of a clinical site assignment by a student is equivalent to a request for suspension and/or withdrawal from the program.
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