Should I miss the first day of nursing class?

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Hi all, I need some advice. I will start my second semester of a bsn nursing program in january. Today I signed off on my official offer letter of employment for a nurse tech position. My last day of orientation is on the first day of my health and assessment class. The class is only on mondays from 10am-12pm. My labs do not start until the week of jan.25th. I wanted to know:

1. Should I see if the hospital could arrange for me to do the orientation on a different day the same week? It's from 8am-430pm. It's still hospital orientation, not for my unit.

2. Contact my instructor for next semester to see if it would be okay to miss the day, but to get notes from a classmate?

3. Contact the nursing department to see the policy on attendance?

The hospital is 10 mins from my home, pays over 3 dollars and some cents more an hour than the hospital I currently work for (without shift deferential), and 12 hr shifts!

Has anyone been in this situation before? What did you do? What was the outcome? Any regrets?

Thanks!

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Erm, this is quite a dilemma.

I know at the orientation for my program, they stated to only miss class if you are dying. The first day though is usually just filled with reading the syllabus so if you must miss that day, it would not be too bad.

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I would check with your professor and see if you can get the notes from a classmate. I know my professors are okay with us missing lecture class as long at there is no test, as long as there is a good reason.

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#3 & go from there. Blessings.

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#3 & go from there. Blessings.

Exactly! Gud luck to you!

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#1. Your priority at this point is school. You cannot make up the class and that shouldn't be your plan in the first place.

Ask if you can reschedule your day-long orientation instead.

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#1. Your priority at this point is school. You cannot make up the class and that shouldn't be your plan in the first place.

Ask if you can reschedule your day-long orientation instead.

I agree.

First try to fix things on the hospitals end....

then if that fails... open your student handbook and read about absence policy ...

GOOD LUCK ( :

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#2. Go straight to the source. Your instructor may be a little more lenient about things like that then the department head. And trust me, they are BIG about following the chain of command. Hospital orientations are usually the same day everywhere week. At my hospital, we do orientation every other Mon and Tues. if you can't be there those two days then too bad.

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#1. Your priority at this point is school. You cannot make up the class and that shouldn't be your plan in the first place.

Ask if you can reschedule your day-long orientation instead.

I really would hate to miss class. Especially the first day. I'm so worried about failing. I barely made it through this semester. I don't want to lose this job opportunity. However, nursing school is my priority. I just hope the hospital can move it to a different day.

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In addition, I still have a position that's registry at another hospital. I'm required to work there 4 days a month. I also had to work 5 8hr shifts at the hospital I am about to leave. With the new job, I will only have to work 2 12hr shifts. In my heart, I really think I need to let the registry position go. The ONLY reason I'm trying to hold on to it is because the nurses there make $52 dollars an hour registry regardless of how long they have been nurses. I'm thinking about my future job prospects as well.

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If we miss the first day, we lose our spot in the program

I'd take the school over the job if you can't reschedule the orientation

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

Ask yourself, what is important. Money is great but they may make you forfeit your spot in the class...plenty waiting to get in. I would think that asking the instructor to be absent is not going to look good and missing orientation at the hospital before start is going to mean a dismissal. Rock and a hard place for sure. Personally, I would see when the next orientation at the hospital is and see if I could move to that. Schools aren't very forgiving

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