owing money for missed clincals

MishlB · Nov 20, 2002

I think people are missing the point about the pay. You dont pay for simply missing a clinical, but many clinicals. You can make up time for being sick, or if you have something mandatory come up, but after so many hours missed, it is not possible to make it up during regular clinical times, so time must be scheduled with an instructor, on their off-duty time, to help you make up the lost hours.

Do you think it's fair to other students that some can miss and not make it up, while others make it a point to be there no matter what? Nobody is being punished for being sick.

dianacs · Nov 20, 2002

I think people are missing the point about the pay. You dont pay for simply missing a clinical, but many clinicals.

I can't find where this has been mentioned. It sounds like some of these people are being charged for the first missed clinical.

fab4fan · Nov 22, 2002

What a racket!!!

We were allowed to miss one clinical day per trimester without having to make it up...this was really a Godsend at times.

I had one rotation that I absolutely hated, and it felt sooooooo good to call off for my last day of that clinical, and know that there was not one blessed thing my instructor could do about it.

That was 18 years ago, and thinking about it still makes me smile.

vashka25 · Nov 22, 2002

Yup, we have to pay up here too......

Their logic being that yes you did pay for it initially, but you missed it when it was taught, so now you have to pay for that teachers time out of your own pocket to reteach what she has already taught...

Hmmmm.... being a poor student, I've never been one to miss lab or clinical...(and lose out on my green jellybean money? I think not)

~live the life you love.....and love the life you live~

whipping girl in 07, RN · Nov 22, 2002

Completely ridiculous!

At my nursing school, you could miss three clinical days per semester. Nearly every semester, I missed the maximum. My second med-surg, I hit the limit the second to last day of clinicals. My teacher made me write a paper to make it up. I couldn't figure out why, but I was afraid she'd fail me, so I did it. It turns out, when I went to my ICU rotation, the preceptor accidentally marked me absent for one of the days (someone was absent, she just marked the wrong name). My instructor thought I was OVER the limit and didn't want to have to fail me, so she had me write the paper instead. But it was a misunderstanding and caused me to have to write a 10 page paper the week before finals (taking me away from valuable study time). I still blame the B I made that semester on that damn paper.

If for some reason an instructor had to miss a clinical day, we had the "alternate clinical assignment" (the paper I had to write). This assignment was supposed to be long enough to take up an entire clinical day, but in truth, it took much longer. We did not have to make up missed clinicals in the hospital (not sure why, maybe we had extra hours built in or something).

vashka25 · Nov 22, 2002

Up here when it comes to clinical....if you miss more than two days per rotation...YOU FAIL that rotation...(each rotation is 7 weeks)...because they don't feel they can adequately assess you if you miss clinicals......BUT what the real kicker is that during the three years of the program you cannot miss more than 10 cumulative clinical days without having to do an extra entire rotation to make up for the time, as you are required to put in a minimum mandatory amount of hours.....I think 1600 hours by end of thrid year before you begin your preceptorship which is another 650 hours !!!!

rnmomtobe2010 · Jul 19, 2008

What is unique about being charged for missed clinicals or labs? I have never heard of this one. But I have heard of being dismissed from the program for missing too many days.

LaceyRN · Jul 19, 2008

We are able to miss 2 clinical days per semester but there are no fees or make-ups. Miss more than 2 you fail out period!

I think this policy is fair and allows for some flexibility.

Logos · Jul 19, 2008

I go to a community college and we are allowed to miss one clinical day and it must be made up at the end of the semester- hospital, instructor and time is the college's choice and there is an $80 fee. If you do not make up your missed clinical you fail.

Your dad dies and you already missed one clinical for being sick- you fail.

They told us this at orientation and said many students have failed due to illness and personal emergency's-there are no exceptions you must be there for all clinical hours.

If you are ill or in an auto accident you need a Dr.'s excuse to return to clinical- if the Dr. will not release you- you fail- and you do not get your money back for the semester.

sarahb9177 · Jul 20, 2008

Oh wow! Like it's been said, every school is different and I'm sure that's true, but you having to pay for missed classes? Isn't tuition expensive enough?? :banghead: My schools policy - you have to be there 80% of the term...or something VERY close to that ( :confused: )...any less - you're dropped.

oldladychris · Jul 20, 2008

I have never heard of that. We are allowed to miss one clinical day, or one lab day per 8 weeks. If we miss more than one, we can make it up at the end, which they set a day just for that, or they give us paperwork to do out of the Strategies book. Aren't we poor enough with the tuition?

:smackingf

star77, MSN, RN · Jul 20, 2008

That's ridiculous. It's so dependent upon where one is training- for instance, I'm on a floor where the patients are so immunosupressed that if I came in with a runny nose or a cough (not allergy related), I could actually kill them.

We've been told to not miss clinicals, but also to protect the patients and ourselves first.

I'd question the practice of owing money. That seems shady to me.