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Clinical Practice

Clinical timekeeping

Students are expected to validate their clinical attendance. The method of validation will depend on the clinical assignment. Falsification of attendance records will result in disciplinary action or possible dismissal from the program.  

Clinical absences/tardiness

Students must notify the clinical site supervisor and clinical site if illness or emergency causes them to be absent or tardy from clinical time. Students may be withdrawn from the clinical site due to excessive absences and tardiness. All absences must be discussed with the program clinical instructor as soon as possible to determine if makeup time is warranted and approved. A call-in policy with phone numbers is included in the clinical packet distributed at the time clinical assignments are made.  The Program Lead will be notified of all absences, excused and unexcused, and tardiness. 

Withdrawal/removal from the clinical facility or field site

Students receiving instruction at affiliated clinical sites during the clinical experience are under the jurisdiction of the College. The College will immediately withdraw any student from clinical for reasons of attendance or behavior which impedes the student’s ability to fully participate in the experience or that is adversely affecting the clinical facility or its staff or patients. If the student is dismissed from the clinical facility due to misconduct, it is up to the Program Lead if an alternate facility will be provided. Misconduct that may result in immediate withdrawal and course failure or program dismissal from the clinical facility includes, but is not limited to, infractions of the Student Code of Conduct, and/or the following:

Absenteeism

• Second absence no call no show will be cause for dismissal

• Tardiness of 2 days will be cause for dismissal

• Failure to notify both clinical site supervisor and the clinical site when absent is a no call no show

• Unexcused second absence will be cause for dismissal

• If you do not go to the assigned clinical site at assigned times you may forfeit your clinical time. You are expected to be at your clinical site on time on assigned days. Clinical time is scheduled to be completed by the end of the cohort’s semester. Time after that is not guaranteed.

Clinical completion

This course is a pass/fail course. If the student completes 100 successful venipunctures and 5 successful capillary punctures during 100 hours of clinical practice under the supervision of qualified instructors and preceptors, along with a satisfactory review from the clinical site, then they will satisfy all satisfactory requirements to pass this course. If for any reason a student has not competed the required hours or venipunctures and capillary punctures, within the clinical schedule provided, the program is not obligated to provide any additional clinical experiences and may result in a course failure.

Cell phones and calls during clinicals

No personal cell phones, computers, iPads, or other such devices are to be used during the clinical experience. Office or clinic business phones are not to be used to make or to receive personal phone calls except in the event of an emergency. Students may make personal calls on their scheduled break or during lunch from pay phones within the office/clinic or from cell phones outside of the office/clinic as long as the calls are not made in the presence or view of patients.