Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes, on-campus laboratories, and clinical laboratories. Punctuality to scheduled classes, on-campus laboratories, and clinical laboratories is expected. If a test is missed, refer to the course syllabus for the test make-up policy.
Faculty members have the prerogative of lowering grades for frequent student absences.
Each nursing course syllabus indicates the maximum number of absences allowable before a grade is lowered. Alternative course activities, such as attendance at a professional meeting, are arranged through the course instructor. Children, other family members, or friends of students are not permitted in classes, on-campus laboratories, or clinical laboratory areas at any time. Students with conditions involving an elevated temperature, open lesions, contagious upper respiratory or gastrointestinal conditions, or crutches, casts, splints, canes, etc. are required to abide by the college's and the clinical agencies' health policies. If the student attends clinical laboratory with any of the above, the student will be dismissed from clinical laboratory.