Clinical Training & Practicum
Related Learning Experience (RLE) is built into every professional nursing course. By graduation, every MSCI student has completed CHED-required clinical hours across hospital and community settings.
Related Learning Experience is not a separate course.
RLE hours are embedded as a co-component of every major nursing course. When you take Maternal & Child Nursing, you also do RLE in maternal & child settings. When you take Psychiatric Nursing, you do RLE in psychiatric units. This is how CHED requires it. This is how we deliver it.
Orientation & Observation
Introductory clinical exposure tied to Health Assessment and Fundamentals of Nursing.
Community + MCN
Community Health Nursing and Maternal & Child rotations begin. RLE hours: 6 units.
Medical-Surgical Core
Highest-density rotation year. MS-I, MS-II, Psychiatric, Acute, Chronic. RLE: 12 units.
Intensive Nursing Practicum — Year 4 Capstone
The Year 4 capstone places students full-time in clinical settings under structured supervision. Hospital rotations and community rotations are run as separate practicum courses (PNC 406 and PNC 407), each carrying 6 units. Students are evaluated against CHED's Nursing Core Competency Standards.
Year 4 Practicum Structure
| Hospital Practicum | 6 units · Tertiary hospital rotations: MS, OR, ICU, ER |
| Community Practicum | 6 units · Rural Health Units, City Health Office, school clinics |
| Supervision | 1 Clinical Instructor per 8 students (CHED maximum) |
| Evaluation | Competency-based, against CHED Nursing Core Competency Standards 2019 |
| Documentation | Daily Patient Care Records · Weekly Reflection Journals · Case Studies |
Clinical Affiliates
Partner hospitals and community health facilities where MSCI students complete their RLE and capstone rotations:
Simulation Laboratory
The on-campus simulation suite hosts high-fidelity manikins, ECG training rigs, IV-insertion arms, OB delivery simulators, and a fully equipped mock ward. Students rehearse arrest scenarios, sepsis recognition, airway management, and medication safety before they encounter live patients.
- High-fidelity adult and pediatric manikins
- OB delivery simulator
- IV insertion / phlebotomy training arms
- ECG and vital-signs simulators
- Full mock ward (4 beds, headwalls, crash cart)