Typhon at MRU: what it is and how to log well

What MRU expects you to record

The catalog lists what a clinical course must produce by its last day: practicum hours completed with a University-approved preceptor, logs, case lists, other documentation, and an end-of-course evaluation signed by the preceptor, the clinical instructor and you. Missing any one of them fails the course.

What MRU does not say publicly is which of those pieces live inside Typhon and which are handled another way. It also publishes no case-list template, no minimum patient numbers and no list of the fields each encounter needs. Those details belong to the syllabus and to the nursing student handbook on the student portal.

Read both before your first shift. The logs and case lists page sets out the documentation rule in full, and the end-of-course evaluation page covers the three signatures.

Logging habits that protect the grade

None of these are MRU rules. They are habits that keep a record accurate and complete when the last day of the course arrives.

• Log each shift the same day, while times and cases are fresh.
• Record only the hours you actually worked. The catalog treats falsified time logs, misrepresented hours and false encounter records as grounds for course failure and possible dismissal.
• Keep patient identifiers out of every entry. MRU requires you to follow HIPAA and each site's privacy policies, and violations can cost you the course.
• Keep your own short record of dates, hours and your preceptor's name, so you can reconcile anything that looks wrong later.
• Check your running total every week against the syllabus target, not only at midterm.
• Tell your clinical instructor early if your preceptor's schedule changes and your total starts to slip.

If you are an FNP student unsure what target to log against, the FNP clinical hours page explains why MRU prints no total and what the course credits imply.

What Typhon does not answer

Some questions come up every term, and MRU's public documents answer none of them. Take them to your course faculty or clinical instructor.

• Whether late entries are accepted, and how long after a shift.
• Who reviews your entries during the term, and how often.
• Whether your preceptor confirms hours in Typhon or on a separate timesheet.
• What happens to your Typhon record between courses and after graduation.
• How the Typhon fee in your program's cost table is billed.

Ask once, in writing, and keep the answer with your course records. An answer for one course may not hold for the next, so ask again when a new clinical course begins. If a reply changes something you have already logged, fix the entry straight away and tell your clinical instructor what you changed and why.