Attendance policy at your school

starmickey03, MSN, RN · Dec 11, 2011

An attendance policy for lecture? No.

This is college not high school.

It sucks that they would do that to you all.

CrazierThanYou · Dec 11, 2011

In my program, you can miss ONE lecture. ONE. For clinical, you can miss ONE day.

Kinda funny, considering our "lecture" is really non-existent.

x_factor · Dec 11, 2011

At our school, you can miss only ONE lecture day. You cannot miss any clinical days, under any circumstances.

CrazierThanYou · Dec 11, 2011

At our school, you can miss only ONE lecture day. You cannot miss any clinical days, under any circumstances.

That's pretty harsh. Things do happen. Of course, at my school, we have WAAAAAAY more clinical hours then the state requires AND our clinicals are pretty much a waste of time.

lelafin · Dec 12, 2011

At our school, you can miss only ONE lecture day. You cannot miss any clinical days, under any circumstances.

Wow, and I thought my school was bad!!! What if you get in a car accident on the way there... or your child gets deathly ill the morning of clinical and you have no one as backup?! I guess you have to make sure you have plan B, C and D lined up in the case of the child.. and if you have a car accident, go in bleeding and with a concussion and all :uhoh3: Jeez!

At least at my school you can make up ONE clinical day if you have a good excuse... I can understand the clinical policy more easily, but I just don't understand the lecture policy! We're adults... it should be our responsibility to learn the material. However we figure out to do that is our business... I believe most people would come to class most of the time. We're too afraid of failing not to! But if someone has an emergency and has to miss on the last week of class after having gone through the entire torturous semester.... BAM! Withdrawn! I just don't see how that's fair.

CrazierThanYou · Dec 12, 2011

In my program, we had a girl who was in a car accident and then her mother passed away in quick succession. No sympathy for her. She was out of the program. Another was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. No sympathy for her either. Treatments and chemo? Not the school's problem.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Dec 12, 2011

We didn't have one for lecture specifically but each semester their were a few mandatory classes. All labs and clinicals had a policy.

x_factor · Dec 12, 2011

Nope, no exceptions, at least not according to them. They are really strict, really harsh, and really unforgiving.

AgentBeast, MSN, RN · Dec 12, 2011

At my school they couldn't care less if you show up for lecture or not. They aren't going to throw you out if you don't show up. You'll probably fail out on your own, but if you show up for all the tests and quizzes and get 75% of the questions correct you'll pass.

You can miss 10% of the total clinical hours any semester which basically amounts to two clinical days.

Lab you could miss, but you'd have to make up that day's material somehow.

MU Nursingstudent · Dec 12, 2011

Wow thats nuts! You're adults in college..My school could care less if you attend, I mean they say students do better if attending but that we're adults and its our choice. Clinical and lab are different story, those you have to attend.

nashgirl516 · Dec 12, 2011

For nursing school, I'd agree that that is kinda ridiculous. For my classes, the lectures are optional, but the labs and clinicals are mandatory. You can't miss/make-up more than one of either (for any reason).

Honestly, I don't go to a lot of the lectures, because I find I can learn it better on my own (with self-study).... it all depends upon who is teaching that day! I also get sick a lot (LONG story), so it's nice to have the flexibility to NOT go.