Bradley's Graduate Professional Behaviors Policy at your clinical site

Where the policy comes from and how to read it

The Graduate Professional Behaviors Policy was first approved by the Department of Nursing's Graduate Curriculum Committee on February 21, 2023. An update was approved on April 16, 2024 and adopted by the department on April 23, 2024. It is posted as a Word document with the other graduate policies linked from the nursing department's Handbooks & Policies list.

This page covers the parts that touch clinical placement. The policy governs your conduct across the whole program, so read it in full once, and read it beside the Graduate Student Handbook, which holds the practicum rules on attendance, dress, unsafe practice and hours.

Both documents apply to every online graduate track. If a line in either seems to conflict with your track's clinical packet in MyOnline, ask your academic advisor which governs before you act on it.

No pay for practicum work

The policy also names being paid for services done as part of the clinical practicum as a conflict of interest. Clinical hours are supervised learning time, not paid shifts, so the hours you log in Typhon need to be hours for which you are not paid.

This matters most for students who hope to train where they already work. Bradley publishes no rule for or against clinicals at your own employer, but the pay rule applies either way: a practicum day at your workplace has to be separate from your paid schedule. The practicum at your workplace page looks at how students set that up.

Keep the separation visible. A simple note of your practicum dates, kept apart from your timesheets, makes it easy to show course faculty which hours were clinical if the question ever comes up.

Other handbook rules that shape your conduct

• Attendance: the handbook expects you to arrange and attend every scheduled practicum experience and to avoid scheduling conflicts.
• Dress: professional clothing, a white lab jacket and your Bradley graduate student name badge. See insurance, badge and dress.
• Privacy: you sign the Department of Nursing HIPAA Compliance Agreement after admission, and it stays in your student file.
• Substances: a student may not attend practicum while a substance violation is being decided.
• Incidents: the 2026 handbook says students pay any costs from incidents or injuries at an agency; the 2021 edition had said those costs were worked out between the agency and the student.
• Academic integrity: new students complete a Plagiarism Awareness module and quiz in the Canvas orientation course, and an unpassed quiz can bring a registration hold.

Why Bradley students choose us for clean, conflict-proof placements

Every preceptor the placement desk brings you is an unrelated professional in the right setting for your Bradley course, and practicum days are arranged as unpaid learning time from the start. That keeps your packet clear of the two conflicts the policy names.

We also plan clinical days around your job so they never overlap a paid shift, and we have your preceptor's documents ready for the DocuSign packet. Use the form on this page to send your course, your city and your work schedule, or read how it works. When a promising contact turns out to be a relative, or a tie you are unsure about, we move to the next strong option instead of leaving you to argue an exception.