COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCE
background check POLICY
Lutana Haan

Any Clinical Degree

CHS Policy 313.0
All students receive full policy in Student Handbook

Hospitals Require

Background checks may be required in healthcare education due to state law, licensure boards, or because of accrediting agency requirements (Farnsworth, 2006).

Frequency

• Before entry
• Every 6 months
• Drug screen 1 year

Reporting

Students are required to report all arrests for misdemeanors or felonies to the program within 48 hours

What can cause you to NOT pass your background check?

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• Sexual crimes, crimes against children, or murders are instances when no student would be cleared, regardless of the time since the crime occurred.

"Hits" on background

• If in the last SEVEN years a crime of abuse, illegal drugs, assault, fraud, arson, kidnapping, mayhem, poisoning, forgery, or grand theft have occurred the student does not have a clean background check.

"Hits" on background

• In the past THREE years, if misdemeanor theft or multiple crimes, the background check is also not clean. In the past three years of a first driving under the influence, the student does not pass the background check.

APPEAL

Questions?

References
Springer, P. J., & Farnsworth, J. (2006). Background checks for nursing students: What are schools doing? Nursing Education Perspectives, 27(3), 148. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/236653995
Boise State University, College of Health Sciences Policy 313.0 Student background check policy. Effective date 06-29-12, Revised date 09-18-13.