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Criminal Background Check
Statutorily required background checks: criminal record checks and employee disqualification list of the Department of Health and Senior Services
All students entering the clinical nursing major will complete a criminal record check. This investigation meets statutory requirements and is to insure students have not previously committed violent crimes against persons.
Student must meet the requirements of clinical agencies where Lincoln participates in clinical experiences. If the results of the criminal records background check reveal a record or conviction, guilty pleas or nolo contendere pleas involving Class A or Class B felonies as listed under Missouri law, the student will not be able to participate in clinical. Pertinent crimes include:
· Murder in first or second degree
· Voluntary Manslaughter
· Elder Abuse in first or second degree
· Kidnapping
· Assault in first degree
· Assault a Law Enforcement Officer, first or second degree
· Forcible Rape
· Forcible Sodomy
· Child Molestation, first degree (with aggravating circumstances)
· Statutory Rape in first degree
· Statutory Sodomy in first degree
· Sexual abuse (with aggravating circumstances)
· Robbery in first or second degree
· Arson in first degree
· Causing Catastrophe
· Burglary in first degree
· Pharmacy Robbery in first or second degree
· Arson in second degree if death or injury occurs
· Class A misdemeanor failure to report acts of abuse or neglect as required in the subsection
· Class D felony incest.
Finally, it is illegal for licensed hospitals, nursing homes and in-home care agencies under contract with the Department of Health and Senior Services to knowingly hire a person for a position for the purpose to have contact with patients or residents if that person is currently on the Employee Disqualification List of the Department of Social Services. If a student is listed on the Employee Disqualification List maintained by the State of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the student will not be able to attend clinicals.
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