Responsibility/Liability of Instructors and Students:

1. Each instructor and student is liable for his/her own actions at all times.
2. It is the responsibility of the instructor to:
   1. Make student assignments compatible with the expected level of student learning.
   2. Direct and supervise the administration of medications and performance of skills in which the student does not have mastery.
3. It is the responsibility of the student to:
   1. Keep the instructor informed of the status of assigned patients/clients and progress with nursing activities.
   2. Inform the instructor prior to assuming care of an assigned client if there is a reason why he/she feels unprepared to assume that care/assignment.
   3. Determine the level of oversight and supervision of the instructor (or licensed staff nurse with the instructor’s permission) for medication administration.
   4. Perform independently only those skills in which she/he has received instruction, feels confident to perform, and has been approved by the instructor to perform.
4. The instructor has the right to refuse a previously failed student into the clinical phase of the curriculum, if he/she knows that the student poses a threat to the health and safety of the patients he/she cares for due to proven inability to perform safe nursing skills and judgments; and the student has not demonstrated satisfactory remediation of a previous deficit in nursing practice.
5. The instructor is not liable for the student who:
   1. Acts without supervision or inconsistently with instructor’s authorization.
   2. Does not follow instructions when performing in the clinical area.
   3. Does not perform responsibly as outlined in section three above.