Nursing undergraduate collaborative program (Algonquin College)

Program requirements and deadlines

Please note: Deadline dates for the 2023-2024 academic year were last updated on April 1, 2023.

It is your responsibility to keep copies of all your documents, as we will not provide them. We are also not responsible for providing proof of immunization to other programs, clinical sites or future employers (including after graduation) and cannot help with this.

Please email all of your completed forms and obtained documents to your Clinical Placement Risk Management Advisor Anne-Marie Laverdure at [email protected].

New entry: starting September 2023

Deadlines	Requirements
November 1, 2023	Student Placement Requirements Record (all vaccinations, serology, 2-dose COVID-19 Vaccine and 2-step TST) 2-step Tuberculin Skin Test (TST): Proof of a 2-step TST done any time in the past is mandatory If you completed a 2-step TST in the past, please provide this proof and no new testing will be required until the next deadline June 30, 2024. If a 2-step TST was never done in the past, it must now be completed 1st step: to be done after June 30, 2023, due Nov 1, 2023 2nd step: to be done after April 30, 2024, due June 30, 2024
June 30, 2024	Annual Full Certification Course for CPR-HCP (Health Care Provider) orBLS (Basic Life Support) (day/month/year of training) Certificate must be obtained after April 30, 2024 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period 1-step Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) Testing must be obtained after April 30, 2024 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period If you completed a 2-step TST in the past 12 months, doing the 1-step TST is not required. If you tested "positive", you must provide us the following: Copy of "Chest X-ray report" A completed Tuberculosis Signs and Symptoms Self-Declaration form Written/documented proof of the "positive" TST: date of injection with the results

Deadlines

Requirements

November 1, 2023

Student Placement Requirements Record
(all vaccinations, serology, 2-dose COVID-19 Vaccine and 2-step TST)
2-step Tuberculin Skin Test (TST):
- Proof of a 2-step TST done any time in the past is mandatory
- If you completed a 2-step TST in the past, please provide this proof and no new testing will be required until the next deadline June 30, 2024.
- If a 2-step TST was never done in the past, it must now be completed
  - 1st step: to be done after June 30, 2023, due Nov 1, 2023
  - 2nd step: to be done after April 30, 2024, due June 30, 2024

June 30, 2024

Annual Full Certification Course for CPR-HCP (Health Care Provider) orBLS (Basic Life Support) (day/month/year of training)
Certificate must be obtained after April 30, 2024 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period
1-step Tuberculin Skin Test (TST)
Testing must be obtained after April 30, 2024 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period
If you completed a 2-step TST in the past 12 months, doing the 1-step TST is not required.
If you tested "positive", you must provide us the following:
1. Copy of "Chest X-ray report"
2. A completed Tuberculosis Signs and Symptoms Self-Declaration form
3. Written/documented proof of the "positive" TST: date of injection with the results

Admission: September 2022 (year 2)

Deadlines	Requirements
June 30, 2023	Annual Full Certification Course for CPR-HCP (Health Care Provider) orBLS (Basic Life Support) (day/month/year of training) Certificate must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period 1-step TST or if you previously tested positive, complete and submit the form: Tuberculosis Signs and Symptoms Self-Declaration Testing must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period.
October 1, 2023	Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) - original document with embossed seal or electronic document forwarded from police service VSS must be obtained after September 1, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period. Please do not apply before September 1, 2023 as your clinical placement in 2nd year may take place in long-term care home (LTCH) settings. As per the LTCH policy, a police vulnerable sector screening must be completed within 6 months prior to starting placement in a LTCH setting.
December 1, 2023	Seasonal Influenza Vaccination N95 Mask Fit Testing

Admission: September 2021 (year 3)

Deadlines	Requirements
June 30, 2023	Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) - original document with embossed seal or electronic document forwarded from police service VSS must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period CPR-HCP (Health Care Provider) orBLS (Basic Life Support) Renewal Course (day/month/year of training) Certificate must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period 1-step TST or if you previously tested positive, complete and submit the form: Tuberculosis Signs and Symptoms Self-Declaration Testing must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period.
December 1, 2023	Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Non-Violent Crisis Intervention - Full Certification Course

Deadlines

Requirements

June 30, 2023

Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) - original document with embossed seal or electronic document forwarded from police service
VSS must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period
CPR-HCP (Health Care Provider) orBLS (Basic Life Support) Renewal Course (day/month/year of training)
Certificate must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period
1-step TST or if you previously tested positive, complete and submit the form: Tuberculosis Signs and Symptoms Self-Declaration
Testing must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period.

December 1, 2023

Admission: September 2020 (year 4)

Deadlines	Requirements
June 30, 2023	Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) - original document with embossed seal or electronic document forwarded from police service VSS must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period CPR-HCP (Health Care Provider) orBLS (Basic Life Support) Renewal Course (day/month/year of training) Certificate must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period 1-step TST or if you previously tested positive, complete and submit the form: Tuberculosis Signs and Symptoms Self-Declaration Testing must be obtained after April 30, 2023 only to ensure validity for the duration of placement period
December 1, 2023	Seasonal Influenza Vaccination N95 Mask Fit Testing