Sacred Heart's student systems, and where each clinical task lives

MySHU, the front door

MySHU, at myshu.sacredheart.edu, is Sacred Heart's single sign-on portal. You reach it with your full SHU email address, and its landing page carries cards for Blackboard, SPA, Outlook, the Health Portal and the SHU Card. Sacred Heart sums up its purpose as a place to "launch favorite services like email, Blackboard and SPA."

From the portal, students check their class schedule, grades, add/drop and academic holds, contact their advisor, apply for graduation and reach library resources. The graduate student-life page adds a detail that trips up new students: the portal is powered by Blackboard, but classes themselves run in Blackboard Ultra.

The SHU ID is a 9-digit number. The SHU Account is also called the University or Network Account, and the SHU username is the part of your email address before the @. Multifactor authentication runs through Microsoft Authenticator, and GlobalProtect VPN opens network-only services, such as the library, from off campus.

Blackboard Ultra and the clinical requirements organizations

Blackboard, delivered as Blackboard Ultra, is what Sacred Heart calls "the portal to your individual classes." You open it from MySHU through Quick Links, and online students get a Blackboard orientation before their program begins. Help comes from blackboard@sacredheart.edu or a Blackboard Support Request.

Nursing also uses Blackboard Organizations, non-course sites that hold clinical forms and requirements. Each group of tracks has its own:

• FNP Online Clinical Requirements: the online MSN FNP and the post-master's FNP certificate.
• Grad Cert: Psych Mental Hlth Nurse Prac Clinical Requirements: the MSN PMHNP and the post-master's PMHNP certificate.
• Graduate Nursing Requirements: the MSN Nursing Education, NMEL and CNL tracks.
• FNP/DNP Clinical Placement Organization, within Clinical Compliance: health forms for the hybrid FNP/DNP.

The MSN guide sends FNP students to their organization for the detailed placement process and every form, and the non-NP Contract Request Form is posted in the Graduate Nursing organization as well as on the Sacred Heart site.

E*Value, the Health Account and the Student Health Portal

Two clinical systems sit outside the university's general tools. E*Value, which you enter with your SHU username, holds clinical logs, case logs, evaluations, the student-preceptor agreement and preceptor letters of agreement, and late required documents mean an F in clinical; the E*Value guide walks through it.

The Health Account tracks clinical compliance: the physical exam, TB test, CPR, the RN license for your clinical state, liability insurance, the flu vaccine by November 1 and the Protecting Youth certificate. The graduate guides leave the vendor unnamed; the Health Account guide covers due dates by program.

Keep the Health Account separate in your mind from the Student Health Portal at myhealth.sacredheart.edu, a Point 'N Click record system Health Services uses for student immunizations. Health Services says program compliance companies do not exempt students from forms the State of Connecticut requires, but it does not say whether fully online students must upload them, so ask Health Services or your advisor.

Where our work meets these systems

Our service plugs into Sacred Heart's systems at the points where students lose the most time. We deliver the preceptor's CV, license and board certification ready for the NP approval mailbox, the contracting contact at the site that your Contract Request Form asks for, and a preceptor already briefed on completing E*Value evaluations on schedule, so the paperwork inside E*Value keeps pace with your hours.

You keep full control of your accounts and submissions, and what you send is complete the first time. We also track the dates your course calendar and week-10 checkpoint set, and if a preceptor steps away mid-course we begin the replacement search at once. Name your program and next clinical course in the form on this page to start, or read how it works for the full service.