Background checks for ETSU nursing clinicals

Which vendor does ETSU nursing use?

The College of Nursing's pages name no company. The catalog says only "specified vendor," so take the vendor from the College's own instructions, or put the question to the Office of Student Services before paying anyone.

You may come across a 2023 instruction sheet from ETSU's Graduate School that sends students to Truescreen's Application Station: Student Edition. That sheet is university-wide, not a College of Nursing document, so do not treat it as the nursing vendor without the College's confirmation. The sheet also says results usually arrive in three to five business days and can be sent electronically to a clinical facility's education director, a useful sense of the turnaround whichever vendor the College names.

Getting the check done, step by step

1. Confirm the vendor and the packageAsk the Office of Student Services which vendor and which search the College specifies for your program.
2. Order and complete the checkGive yourself working days for results; the 2023 university sheet cites three to five business days as usual.
3. Upload proof to ProjectConcertThe College keeps proof of completion, not the report, in your clinical requirements file, where the item carries its own due date.
4. Share results with a site only if it asksThe agency, not the College, reviews results, so a facility's education office may ask the vendor to send them directly.
5. Track the dateNote when the check was run, since the College's nurse-led clinics accept one only from the past 12 months.

BSN students: background checks and urine drug screens

Students on the three prelicensure tracks (Traditional, Accelerated and LPN to BSN) meet the College's Clinical Health Requirements, which the undergraduate catalog says include background checks and urine drug screens from specified vendors, at the student's own expense.

The catalog is plain about who decides: "clinical partners have authority to determine if students meet the clinical health requirements." A student the College has cleared can still be refused by a facility. ETSU says a refused student will not be moved to another clinical group or given another experience, and may have to withdraw.

Graduate students will not find a drug screen on ETSU's graduate pages; only the undergraduate catalog mentions one. A site with its own onboarding can still ask for a screen, so put the question to each site before your start date. Our BSN clinicals page explains how the College assigns prelicensure placements.

How we keep this step off your critical path

We treat the background check as part of the placement from the start. Before we propose a preceptor and site, we learn what that site's onboarding asks of students, background and drug screen steps included, and we tell you what to have ready so the check is never the last item holding your start date. When a site runs its own portal or orientation, we map the order of its steps against your term dates, so no step waits on another.

The agency still reviews your results and your clinical faculty still approve the preceptor; our work is the rest of the packet, from the Intent Form details to an early flag on the contract, done right the first time. Read how it works or send your course and term through the contact form.