Editing Herzing Issues: Clinical Placement (section)

=== HU-042: Hospital administrator reportedly informed Herzing student that hospital no longer accepts Herzing students due to prior practice of sending students to preceptorship without any prior clinical experience ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:12em" | Severity
| High
! style="width:12em" | Status
| POSSIBLE
|-
! Issue type
| Clinical Readiness / Accreditation Risk
! Date added
| 2026-05-04
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Dean of Prelicensure Nursing / Clinical Affairs
|}
'''Finding.''' According to the tracker, a hospital administrator reportedly informed a Herzing student that the hospital no longer accepts Herzing students because Herzing previously sent students to senior-year preceptorship without any prior clinical experience.

'''Evidence.''' MSN-DE DEC 2026 COHORT GroupMe, September 27, 2025. Student E relayed talking with the nurse lead at Student E's hospital, who was telling Student E why the hospital does not allow Herzing students there anymore, saying there was a time when Herzing sent students to preceptorship without having a single clinical experience at all, and that those students were sent into patient rooms with no clinical experience at all.

'''Reported statement.''' Student E, a student pseudonym, paraphrased that the nurse lead at Student E's hospital said Herzing once sent students to preceptorship without any clinical experience at all, placing them in patient rooms unsupervised in what is meant to be the senior-year unsupervised phase.

'''Standards.''' ACEN Standard 5.1 requires clinical experiences be adequate, appropriate, and sequenced to build competence. State Board of Nursing regulations typically require progressive supervised clinical experience before unsupervised preceptorship. Sending students into patient care settings without prior supervised experience raises patient safety concerns and potential state nursing board violations.

'''Impact.''' If confirmed, sending students to unsupervised preceptorship without prior clinical experience would represent a patient safety failure, a nursing board violation, and grounds for accreditation concern. The loss of hospital clinical partnership sites due to prior conduct directly harms current students needing placement.

'''Notes.''' This is a secondhand account requiring verification. The loss of clinical placement sites is directly corroborated by documented difficulty placing students throughout 2025 and 2026 (see {{HU|HU-007}}, {{HU|HU-032}}, {{HU|HU-035}}, {{HU|HU-038}}).

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