Policies and Procedures
Policies and Procedures Specific to FCS 494/I (Peer Nutrition Counseling, Experimental Learning Course)
The following policies and procedures have been developed for nutrition and dietetic students as part of the experimental learning requirement of the DPD program.
Insurance Requirements and professional liability
The CSU has a system-wide professional liability insurance program to provide coverage for students who are engaged in the clinical experience This system-wide program is designed to satisfy the requirements of host institutions that students maintain professional liability insurance in order to participate in programs offered under affiliation agreements with the University. This insurance program includes professional and personal liability coverage with broad protection for the students, affiliates and the University. The system-wide Student Professional Liability Insurance Program became effective August 1, 2006. The Student Professional Liability (SPL) insurance program covers the student, the University and the host institution while the student is engaged in the clinical experience. It is intended to meet the contract requirements of the medical institution for their protection against some action by the student or patient. The SPL is not intended to replace any professional liability (malpractice) insurance the individual student may carry for incidents outside of the clinical experience situation. The decision to secure individual professional liability insurance is made by each student to meet individual needs. Various insurance companies provide policies with differing terms, conditions and limits. The need for separate individual PL insurance is also different for each student and those choices should be made with the advice of licensed insurance brokers or attorneys.
Students are required to purchase their own health insurance and auto insurance. Any additional trainings, background checks, fingerprinting, SCANS, CPR training, etc. will be the financial responsibility of the intern.
Liability for Safety in Travel
Students are responsible for making all travel arrangements to and from community partner sites and to and from the university. Students must have available a car as travel in the Southern California area can involve considerable distances. Students must show proof of car insurance and should carefully check rates after consulting with a number of insurance companies.
Since the University is self-insured as a state institution, liability coverage is unavailable to students. Students are not employees of the university and thus must sign a form which releases the State of any and all liability. The State of California requires all licensed drivers to be able to show proof of automobile insurance
Injury and Illness Policy at Facility
In the event of a medical emergency during off-campus experimental learning sessions, students should notify the site supervisor who will arrange for necessary emergency health care. If you are unable to reach your supervisor, speak to another employee at the site. Except for emergency or first aid care, the facility is not required to provide any other health services. If additional services are provided, the student is expected to pay for this service at the time of service. Students should check the deductible on his/her medical insurance so the amount of out pocket expenses is known in advance.
Drug testing & criminal background
Experimental learning sites might require drug testing and/or criminal background check in that case, students are responsible to pay for a background check, drug screen or fingerprinting. A student who is not able to pass the required background check, drug screen or fingerprinting will be withdrawn from the community partner site and won’t be allowed to conduct any session at the site. Currently none of our community partners require drug testing or criminal background check.
Students cannot and must not be used to replace employees by the experimental learning sites.
DPD program at CSUN does not grant credit hours for prior education and learning for FCS 494/I therefore there is no policy or procedure in place at this time for assessing prior learning.