Every program with clinicals, from nursing and radiography to respiratory therapy, surgical technology, medical lab, PTA and OTA, dental hygiene, EMS and medical assisting, answers to each clinical site’s own requirement list. This page collects verified Minnesota facts for program directors and clinical coordinators, including Minnesota State, with a link to each official source, and shows how Drug Free Schools helps.
Minnesota facts for program directors
- Licensure background check. Minnesota law requires each health-related licensing board to have applicants for initial licensure or licensure by endorsement complete a state (BCA) and national (FBI) criminal history records check. (source)
- Licensure background check. For this fingerprint-based check, the applicant submits a consent form and a full set of fingerprints to the licensing board or its designee, as the board specifies. (source)
- Community and technical colleges. Minnesota State is the state's system of 33 public colleges and universities. (source)
Checked 18 October 2026 against each official source. Rules change; confirm with the agency, your accreditor and your clinical sites.
What this means for your program
Each clinical site sends its own requirement list, and each list changes. When a TB result, flu shot or CPR card lapses mid-term, the site can pull the student until it is fixed. Tracking every item to its date, and seeing who is not cleared before rotations start, keeps placements on schedule. Your clinical sites and affiliation agreements still decide the exact list; the free requirements checklist covers what programs most often collect.
How Drug Free Schools helps Minnesota programs
One clinical compliance tracking portal for every program at your school ($30 per student, one time; every upload reviewed within 24 hours), plus drug screens on campus or at any Quest location, name-based background checks and on-campus N95 fit testing. See pricing.
Drug Free Schools does not take fingerprints. Our background checks are name-based. If the Minnesota Board of Nursing or a clinical site requires a fingerprint check, students use the provider it names, such as Fieldprint, IdentoGO or the local police department.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Minnesota require on criminal history for nursing licensure?
Minnesota law requires each health-related licensing board to have applicants for initial licensure or licensure by endorsement complete a state (BCA) and national (FBI) criminal history records check. That licensure step is separate from the name-based background check students complete before clinicals.
What is Minnesota’s community and technical college system?
Minnesota State is the state's system of 33 public colleges and universities.
Do you take fingerprints?
No. Our background checks are name-based. If the Minnesota Board of Nursing or a clinical site requires fingerprints, students use the provider it names, such as Fieldprint or IdentoGO, or their local police department.
Sources
This page summarizes Minnesota agency and official pages as checked on 18 October 2026, with a link to each source. Rules change; confirm with the agency, your school, your accreditor and your clinical sites. Nothing on this page is legal advice. Quest Diagnostics, Fieldprint and IdentoGO are trademarks of their respective owners.