Student preparation

To help emerging providers and clinicians grow their skills, we offer more than 5,000 clinical rotations each year in areas such as Advanced Practice, Allied Health, Nursing + more!

  1. Allina Health only accepts students from schools that have an active Clinical Experience Agreement between the Academic Affiliation and Allina Health.
  2. Background study: Allina Health requires the Minnesota or Wisconsin DHS (based on clinical location(s)) for all clinical students.
    • The school must open an account with the MN DHS in order to request background studies for clinical students
    • Background study
  3. Immunizations: All students and onsite faculty, including Allina Health employees, must meet the Allina Health student requirements for immunizations:
  4. Must comply with Allina Health's Clinical Request & Approval Processes
  5. Must complete all requirements in Allina Health's Clinical Onboarding Processes

Additional Resources:

  1. Student or onsite faculty Injury - Patient Visitor Safety Report
  2. Badges and uniforms     
  3. Cell phone and social media use
  4. Hand hygiene
  5. Specific sites:
  1. Nursing student
  2. Allied Health student     
    • Placements must be approved by the Allina Health unit manager
  3. Advanced Practice RN/PA
    • All APRN faculty must have a current MN Nursing License. The preceptor is not the faculty
  4. APRN (MS, DNP, CNS, etc)/PA project placement
    • The project request form must be submitted and formally approved before inquiry/planning or onboarding starts
  5. Medical Students - coming soon! Please refer to Advanced Practice RN/PA

Additional resources:

  1. Allina Health employees - It is required that the experience/preceptor is outside of the Allina Health employed unit
  2. Observation, shadow or tour - At this time, Allina Health does not provide career exploration observation or shadowing experiences for students. Requests must go through site HR and receive approval.
    • A temporary, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest.
    • This may include students enrolled in medical school who are not engaged in a clinical training program.
    • Elementary/Middle/High School students are not permitted to observe the provider-patient interaction or to enter certain areas of the facility when patients are present
  3. Assignment sheet for group clinical - This Document is recommended but not required

Approval & request resources general contact: AllinaAcademics@Allina.com

Once a clinical experience has been approved, the school must submit a preliminary roster to the appropriate Allina Health Academic Coordinators to initiate the onboarding process.

Follow the links to identify required steps for both the school and clinical student.

  1. School clinical coordinator/faculty
  2. Clinical student/onsite faculty

Additional resources:

Clinical student onboarding general contact: Danielle.Pino@allina.com

Allina Health Service Desk at 612-262-1900

  1. Excellian/Electronic Medical Record Access:
    • Excellian Access is determined during student onboarding
  2. Student: Excellian Documentation Guidelines 
    • Employees as students: read to the end of the document
  3. Student Excellian Login Reference Guide