Academic Student Preparation

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

Effective October 1, 2023:

Allina Health utilizes the Clinician Nexus Student Management System for registration and onboarding. (Clinician Nexus).

See below for request and approval processes.

  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 opportunity location(s)) for all academic students.
  3. Immunizations: All students and onsite faculty, including Allina Health employees, must meet the Allina Health student requirements for immunizations:
  4. Must complete all onboarding requirements as listed in Clinician Nexus for the opportunity. 

Additional Requirement for Nursing Degree Programs: Nursing Faculty Licensure Requirements (Onsite and Remote/Out of State):

The faculty of record for students in nursing degree programs (RN, MSN, DNP, CNS, etc.) must be licensed as RN and APRN to match the student degree in the state/s where the experience/opportunity is occurring (see Board of Nursing: 6301.2340 - MN Rules Part and Wisconsin Board of Nursing - N.108 (3)). This applies whether faculty is on-site or out-of-state.

  • Academic experiences/opportunities in Minnesota require an unencumbered Minnesota Nursing license/s with current registration and Minnesota DHS Background Study.
  • Academic experiences/opportunities in Wisconsin require an unencumbered Wisconsin Nursing license/s with current registration and Wisconsin DHS Background Study.

 

Additional Guidelines:

  • Allina Health Employees - It is required that the opportunity/preceptor is outside of the Allina employee team.
  • Shadow Observations and Tours outside an academic experience/opportunity are not managed through our Allina Student Experience Team. These requests are managed at the site level.

If you are a new coordinator using Allina Health Clinician Nexus, please:

  1. Allina Health only accepts students from schools that have an active Clinical Experience Agreement between the Academic Affiliation and Allina Health.
  1. Must comply with Allina Health's Academic Opportunity Request & Approval Processes::


  1. Follow the Academic Program Reference Guide for Opportunity Management in Clinician Nexus.

Applicable only for students and onsite faculty in process of onboarding by October 1, 2023. If the Preliminary Roster was submitted prior to October 1, 2023, use this section. As of October 1, 2023, preliminary rosters will no longer by accepted and the onboarding will need to be completed using the new Clinician Nexus program.

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Process prior to Clinician Nexus Implementation:

Once a clinical experience has been approved the school, student and onsite faculty must read and complete all steps in the appropriate onboarding link below. To initiate onboarding the school/academic coordinator must submit a preliminary roster to the site coordinator.

  1. Clinical Students and Onsite Faculty Onboarding Requirements
  2. Academic Program Onboarding Requirements

For any questions regarding onboarding status please contact StudentOnboarding@allina.com

  1. Allina Health only accepts students from schools that have an active Clinical Experience Agreement between the Academic Affiliation and Allina Health
  1. Must comply with Allina Health's Academic Opportunity Request & Approval Processes:

 

  1. Following opportunity approval in Clinician Nexus, must complete all requirements listed in Clinician Nexus.. 

 

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