owing money for missed clincals

[shg]

Hello, where I'm at school they charge us $100 for a missed clinical day you can only miss three clinicals each semester or you fail and $50 for a missed learning lab. Do your schools do this or is mine unique?

[rnmomtobe2010]

Oh, I hear we will owe money for missed tutoring sessions.

[Chantilly]

I also think it is crazy to have to pay for missed clinical time. At my school we are only allowed to miss 6 hours per semester, anything beyond this has to be made up. But you just schedule it will another instuctor and attend another clincal with a different group for your make-up.

Another thing that has been brought up in this thread that blew my mind is missing clinical just because you can!!! :igtsyt:What is that about? The only thing you are doing is cheating yourself out of valuable learning time. We aren't in the hospital that many hours to begin with, and to miss clinical not because you are sick or have an emergency but because you don't like the rotation or you just don't feel like going is really crazy. What does this say about your work ethic, are you going to call out from work because you don't like who you are working with that day? I can't fathom doing that, yeah I have had crappy rotations, hated the hospital I was at, and wasn't all that fond of people in my clinical group but I went everyday. I graduate in December and I have not missed a clinical or a lab and I have only missed one lecture but I was as sick as a dog. I figure dealing with situations in clinical that are less than my ideal is good experience in what I will most likely deal with once I begin working, it gives me a chance to learn how to play nice when I don't really want to and how to deal with difficult people in the hospital setting. So those of you that miss clinical just because you can, you should rethink what you are doing to yourself. At my school all of the instructors have a weekly pow-wow and talk about the students, so you bet your sweet a$$ that they already know about you before you even start a clinical rotation with you. That may be something you want to think about before you miss clinical for no good reason, you wouldn't want to shoot yourself in the foot would you? Just my 2 cents I am sure some people will "love" what I have to say, but I thought I would put a different perspective out there.

[chevyv, BSN, RN]

What happens if you don't pay? I wouldn't be paying for anything if I already paid my tuition! I have never missed a clinical day or lecture either, but I do understand that people get sick and loved ones pass. I am an older adult and act accordingly. If I had something come up (sick or ?), I understand that missing only hinders my learning. For a school to feel like they have to put fines in place is ridiculous.

[Logos]

At my school you have to pay before the clinical and like I say you don't pay -you don't go- you fail. They will not let you on the floor without paying.

At my school very few student's miss a clinical day. I think we started w/ about 95 day students and there are less than 8 that make up at the end of the semester- NOBODY misses. Unless your sick in the hospital yourself- you better be there- that's kind of the policy.

[KIMMY03]

The school that I almost ended up going to was a "private" (for profit) school and not only was the tuition OUTRAGEOUS (and steadily climbing) but the school also charged you $25 an hr for clinicals which was already included in tuition. If you missed a clinical, you had to make it up on the following saturday; Here's the catch.... Saturday clinicals had to be a minimum of 10 hrs long...EACH! So basically if you missed a clinical, you had to pay a whopping $250.00 to make it up!!! You were allowed to miss 3 before you were dropped...Needless to say, I didn't end up going there!