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Student Guide - Account Overview

Placing Agency Related Guide (PARG) Student Related Guide (SRG)

This is a copy of the Student Guide that is located in the Student's own Knowledge Base Lite which is accessed when a student logs into their own HSPnet account. This page is here for reference for Placing Coordinators for what your student will see.

Summary:  
This guide on Student Access explains how to:

  1. Login to HSPnet for the first time
  2. View current placements, Shift Schedules and placement details
  3. Communicate with key contacts
  4. Print a Schedule on a local printer
  5. Placement History tab
  6. Consent of email to be released to Health Authority

Associated Icons

gss.png Group, Individual Shift Schedule  

Document Attached
Change since last login
comment - green.png Comments exist on the Placement Request
 View Phone number, send Email


Background
HSPnet is a web-based system for coordinating student placements.  Students can access HSPnet in their province to view and print information about their upcoming placements, to communicate with key contacts, and to view or print placement details and schedules. Students can also consent to releasing their school based email address.

Step 1 – Login to HSPnet for the First Time

  1. Visit the HSPnet website at www.hspcanada.net and click your province on the map of Canada
  2. On the login page, enter your User ID (student number) and temporary password (sent via email from HSPnet)
  3. Follow instructions for changing your temporary password, selecting a Forgotten Password question, and agreeing to user responsibilities.


Step 2 – View Current Placements tab

 

Upon successful login you will be directed to your Welcome Screen and a display of current placements:

 

Here you will find all the information about your placement.

 

In the example on the right, it shows that this is a Group placement of 4 students with the dates of Dec 2 to Dec 25, 2019. The days are Mon, Tues and Wed with 8 hr day shifts. A total of 96 hours is scheduled for this placement per student.

The `icon means that there have been changes to this placement since the last time you have logged in.

  1. Click the Phone icon  for an Instructor or Preceptor to view their contact information, or click the Email icon  to launch a new email message addressed to that individual.
  2. Click the Site or Destination hyperlinks to view the online Profiles.
  3. Click other icons to view more information:

 to view an uploaded document
gss.pngto view Schedule Details

image.png to view comments on the placement request, hover your cursor over the green exclamation mark.

4. Click  to generate a PDF summary of information about each placement – a Ready link will appear when the PDF file is ready to view/print.

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The exclamation mark icon that may appear after the reference number indicates there are comments in the comments field. Hover your cursor over that icon to read the comments.

Step 3 - View or Print a Shift Schedule


Some placement types involve a detailed schedule – the  Group Shift Schedule gss.png or  Individual Shift Schedule  displays if there is a detailed calendar of shifts for a placement.

Click to send the Shift Schedule and Details about the placement site to your local printer.

D8 means an 8 hour shift in the day.

E8 means an 8 hour shift in the evening.

N8 means an 8 hour shift in the night.

Placement History tab

 

The Placement History tab will show you your past and future placements. It will also show you that amount of hours per placement.

 

Once a future placement becomes current, it will move to your Current Placements tab automatically.

 

Once a current placement ends, it will move to the Placement History tab automatically.

Consent tab

 

A student e-mail address can be visible in the details of a student placement request for the Receiving Agencies to view, provided the student authorizes this on the consent tab in their user account.


Students can authorize the receiving agencies to see their e-mail by clicking "consent" as shown below.

Student logs in:

  1. Click the consent tab on the student profile.
  2. Click the edit icon beside "consent."  
  3. Click to place a check mark in front of the box that says: Allow site contacts to use my e-mail address.
  4. Click to place a check mark in front of the box that says: Allow site contacts to use my phone number for contact tracing purposes.
  5. Save the changes with the green check mark  

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