Reporting student externship attendance and skills performance

Reporting student externship attendance and skills performance

To report student externship attendance and satisfactory performance of core competencies:
  1. Click here to access the reporting form. This link can also be found in each of your weekly reminder emails. 
    The form will displays.

  2. Enter the student's name, your name, and select your healthcare organization in the Externship Organization field.
  3. Check whether you are reporting externship hours, signing off on satisfactory performance of a core competency(s), or both.
    Based on those selections, additional fields will display, asking you to indicate:
    1. The week for which you are reporting externship hours.

    2. The core competency(s) that you are ready to sign-off on for the student.

  4. Based on your week or competency selection, fields will display enabling you to report the appropriate information. Click Continue at the bottom of the form.
  5. To report hours:
    1. Enter the total hours the student spent in externship that week. Hours must be entered in 15 minute increments (e.g. 10, 10.25, 10.5, 10.750.
    2. Enter comments regarding the student's performance.
    3. Next, report any excused or unexcused absences or tardies, based on the definitions listed.

  6. To sign-off on core competencies:
    1. Fields will display for you to sign-off on specified core competencies, based on the competencies you selected on the first page of the form. If you need to sign-off on more or fewer competencies, click <Back at the bottom of the form to return to the first page and re-select the appropriate competencies.
    2. See the attached Skills Binder to review what is expected by NIMAA for each competency.
    3. For each competency you are ready to sign off on, enter your full name and today's date in the corresponding field.
    4. In the Comments field, enter any information you want the student's instructor to know about the student's performance of that skill(s).

  7. Click >Continue at the bottom of the page, once you have reported hours and/or satisfactory performance of core competencies.
  8. Next, you will be prompted to enter your signature indicating that you attest that all information in the form is correct.

    Click where it says "Click here to sign." A modal displays.
  9. Using your mouse, draw your signature. Then enter your name in the Print Name field. 
  10. Then click Apply Signature.
  11. Then click Submit Form.
  12. Repeat for any additional students for which you need to report attendance or competency satisfactory performance.
If you would like a report showing all hours or core competencies reported for a student or students, email us at externship@nimaa.edu, and NIMAA can easily provide this information.



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