The School of Nursing strongly encourages students to attend each class, lab, and clinical meeting. The School of Nursing has separate attendance requirements for each component of the curriculum. Expectations for attendance include:
During class & lab, the School of Nursing faculty may choose to track attendance for class and lab; however, no attendance requirements will be imposed.
In courses with a clinical component (NUR-101, NUR-102, NUR-103, NUR-111, NUR-112, NUR-113, NUR-114, NUR-211, NUR-212, and NUR-213), students are required to attend a minimum of 90% of the allotted clinical time to be evaluated as “Satisfactory” in clinical. If a student does not attend a minimum of 90% of the allotted clinical time the student will be awarded an “unsatisfactory” clinical evaluation, which will result in a grade of “F” being awarded for the final course grade. A student who does not attend clinical for a minimum of 90% and has extenuating circumstances, may request an attendance review by the nursing faculty. Requests for the review are made by the student to the lead instructor.
Clinical onboarding is a requirement for all clinical sites and each site has specific onboarding requirements. Students will receive clinical attendance for orientation that occurs at the clinical site. Clinical paperwork or submission of clinical documents will not count as clinical time. If a VSim assignment counts as attendance, a student must complete all of the assignments to earn attendance. Partial credit will not be assigned.