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Students are required to attend all Simulation Center sessions. Additionally, students must be on time, be prepared, and actively participate. In the event of an unforeseen circumstance in which the student is unable to attend a lab or simulation, it is the student’s professional responsibility to notify the instructor as soon as reasonably possible via email. An absence may require appropriate documentation, which may include a letter from a health care provider, obituary, letter of jury duty or other supporting documentation, as requested by the course instructor. Students who miss a lab session will be required to complete a written make- up assignment and/or schedule a time to complete any missed skills check offs. c. Clinical Attendance Policy The School of Nursing has established a programmatic attendance policy that will help facilitate the learning of required knowledge, technical skills and patient care vital to success in the nursing profession. Attendance is MANDATORY at all clinical experiences and is essential to meeting course and program learning outcomes. More than one unexcused clinical absence may result in failure of the clinical course. i. Clinical/Lab Section Placement
Students are randomly assigned to clinical sections. Assignments are based on availability of sections and sites, number of students and agency constraints. Clinical/Lab assignments may be scheduled on any day of the week, including weekends, and can be during the day or evening hours. The clinical area includes sites throughout the greater metro Chicagoland area. Students are expected to provide their own transportation to and from clinical agencies and are responsible for all travel expenses, including parking cost. Clinical placements are assigned based on program requirements, clinical site availability, student capacity, agency requirements, and other operational considerations. Individual personal circumstances, preferences, transportation needs, employment schedules, or other non-programmatic considerations cannot be used to determine or modify clinical placement assignments. ii. Clinical Absences and Tardiness Tardiness: Tardiness is defined as arriving more than seven minutes past the identified start time. A tardy becomes an absence at 21 minutes past the start time. Occurrence #1 – Verbal warning Occurrence #2 – A Retain Academic report will be opened for formal follow-up Occurrence #3 – Counts as a clinical absence Clinical Absence: Absence is defined as missing 21 minutes or more of lab/ clinical/simulation.
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