Typhon NP Student Tracking at USI

What Typhon does in a USI clinical course

USI's Course Requirements page describes the platform in one line: "Typhon's NP Student Tracking System (NPST) … logs, tracks, and manages student clinical data." In practice it is where your direct clinical hours become a record faculty can read, encounter by encounter, toward the 200, 250 and 300 hours of the three specialty courses (hours by program).

Students in all graduate nursing programs must buy the software as a one-time purchase, and that single purchase covers your coursework plus up to five years after you graduate. The cost is the student's responsibility, like your compliance account.

The campus BSN uses Typhon as well, for hours, patient encounters, case types and clinical evaluations, so some USI graduates arrive already knowing the screens.

Logging encounters and getting them co-signed

The handbook FAQs set the standard: "students must accurately document each patient encounter in the third-party clinical repository. Preceptors must review and co-sign the student's entries where applicable." When you first meet a preceptor, USI has you explain that they will need to verify your time electronically in the same system.

1. Enter each encounter the same dayDetails fade fast after a full clinic day, and accuracy is the rule USI names first.
2. Keep hours in line with your scheduleClinical faculty receive your schedule before you attend, so the hours you log should match the days you said you would be there.
3. Ask for co-signing on a steady rhythmA preceptor reviewing a week of entries at once is easier to manage than a semester's worth before finals.
4. Log only what countsObservation hours do not count toward direct patient hours, and telephone-only or asynchronous telehealth earns no credit. Ask course faculty how, or whether, to record anything outside direct care.

DNP project hours use a separate log

DNP students meet two kinds of hours. The specialty clinical courses in the BSN-to-DNP APRN tracks sit inside the same graduate programs that buy Typhon, while hours earned in the DNP project courses follow the handbook's DNP logging rule: every practice hour must be recorded with the activity, the date, the relevant course objectives, the program outcomes and the DNP Essentials.

The catalog names the form for that work, the Doctor of Nursing Practice Hour Tracking form. How project hours add up toward the 1,000 post-baccalaureate hours is covered on the DNP practice hours page; ask your faculty mentor which log each course expects if you are unsure. Post-MSN students who bring fewer than 240 clinical hours from their MSN complete extra practice hours inside the project courses, which makes that log carry even more weight.