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Training Agreements
The days of
enrolling in an RNFA program, finishing your coursework and
class, logging your clinical cases, and breezing through to
graduation are quickly ending for many students.
There is a new legal 'bump in the road'
(and for many a giant road block) that every nurse should
consider before
enrolling in an RNFA program. It’s called a
Training Agreement,
Affiliation Agreement or Memorandum of Understanding MOU.
For legal, ethical and accountability
reasons, more facilities are requiring a formal agreement be in
place between the facility and RNFA Program before
they will allow an RNFA Intern to log her/his hours at their
facility. Training Agreements involve legal departments, can
be labor intensive and get quite expensive for the two
parties involved - with no guarantee of success.
This can be a major problem for many RNFA programs, since
all are presented through Community Colleges or Universities governed by
their respective state Board of Regents and Chancellors. These Boards can be
quite particular about what they will or will not allow in
an agreement and often find themselves at odds with a
facility's legal department. Because of this, RNFA college
programs can historically have a high failure rate when it comes
to signing Training Agreements (often 40%-50% and even more
if the RNFA student lives and works out of town or
out-of-state). It’s a simple truth; if your facility won’t
sign the college agreement (or visa versa), you will have to
go elsewhere to log your cases or might even have to quit
pursuing formal RNFA status.
Steps to Guarantee a Successful Outcome
1)
1. Before
enrolling in any RNFA program, speak to the Legal Department
at your facility and see if they will be requiring a
Training Agreement or MOU.
2)
2. If they
do not
require one, consider yourself fortunate and get started in
your RNFA program.
3)
3.
If they
will be
requiring
one,
ask the RNFA program that you are
considering, to enter a Training Agreement with your
facility
before you enroll.
You will save yourself a lot of frustration, time and
money.
we Or, if you
haven't enrolled in a program yet, you can take all the risk
out by calling us today. We have a Training
Agreement and MOU Specialist at our offices, 40 hours a
week. He will attempt to get a Training Agreement in place with your facility
before you
spend a dollar on enrollment.
If the Agreement isn't signed, you've lost nothing. Call us
for all the details and to start the process.
Call 1-800-922-7747 press '1' and ask
for the Contract Department.
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