To successfully perform clinical functions while enrolled at Trinity, applicants/students must have sufficient physical strength, coordination, manual dexterity, and mental and sensory processes to be capable of providing safe and effective client care. This includes but not limited to the following situations:

Handling stressful or demanding situations related to mechanical, technical, procedural or client care situations
Communicating effectively in order to explain and provide client/family care
Providing physical and emotional support to clients/families
Physically responding to situations requiring first aid or emergency care of clients
Using sensory skills to assess and evaluate clients conditions/diagnostic tests
Transporting, moving, lifting or transferring clients as is necessary to provide care
Moving, adjusting and manipulating a variety of equipment according to established procedures and standards
Physically placing clients, equipment, and instruments in proper positions for examinations according to established procedures and standards

If the ability to meet any of these clinical performance standards is in question, Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences reserves the right at any point in the application process/program to require a simulated clinical test to verify an applicant or student’s capabilities. If the individual cannot meet these clinical performance standards without accommodation, a conference shall be held between applicant/student and the respective Program Coordinator to determine what accommodations would be necessary and if the accommodation is reasonable.

Applicants and students are asked to sign these standards, stating they comply with these Clinical Performance Standards and understand that, if with reasonable accommodation, they cannot meet these standards, they may be withdrawn at any point in the application process/program.