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Attendance or Absenteeism
The Nursing program at LTC is preparing professional nurses. Therefore as in the workplace,
punctuality and mandatory attendance is the expectation for every classroom, lab, and clinical
experience. Instructor and clinical units telephone/voice mail numbers will be announced at the
beginning of each class and/or clinical rotation.
1. Notify instructor per voice mail of necessary absence from class or learning lab. State name,
program, time scheduled, and reason for absence.
2. In the event of clinical absence, phone the clinical unit and/or the instructor as directed at least
one hour before scheduled time.
3. If a student does not participate in 2 consecutive or 3 intermittent assignments/quizzes/
exams/discussions, the instructor will make a concerted effort to contact the student to
mutually discuss the absences. The student's advisor will also be contacted at that time. At
that point, the instructor and advisor will discuss the student’s attendance with them and
recommend that they drop the course. If the student withdraws before the last day of being
able to drop a class without penalty, a grade of "W" will be given. After that time a grade of "F"
will be assigned per the LTC grading policy. Stopping attendance in class does not constitute
withdrawing from class and comes with financial implications. Students are responsible for
officially dropping or withdrawing from class(es). Click for more info on how to add, transfer or
withdraw/drop a class. http://globaldatebooksonline.com/flipbooks/ltc/#p=30.
4. See LTC Student Handbook for school closing guidelines. Upon the instructor's discretion,
students may be asked to make up missed class activities due to school closings in the form of
class rescheduling, online technologies, or other teaching and learning methodologies. It will
be the responsibility of the student to check his/her LTC email in the event of the instructor
needing to contact students to communicate a possible plan for making up missed course
content.
5. If a student is called for jury duty, the student will not be excused from school responsibilities. It
is recommended that if the student wishes to progress in the nursing program, that the student
seeks an excuse from serving on a jury until the program is completed. Please contact the
Associate Dean of Nursing or his/her designee for a written excuse.
6. In the event a student is called to active Military Duty, all attempts will be made to give credit
for all prior course work completed. All options will be reviewed to facilitate seamless re-
sequence into the nursing program.
7. Promptness and regular attendance are considered mandatory in order to assure:
• Satisfactory student progress.
• Accurate evaluation by faculty.
• Safe performance in the clinical area.
Code of Ethics Regarding Social Media
This code provides LTC nursing students with rules for participation in social media. The term social
media includes but is not limited to blogs; social networks such as Facebook® and Twitter®;
podcasts; video sharing; Instagram; Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds; and on-line collaborative
information and publishing systems.
• Students may not disclose any confidential or proprietary information regarding any clinical
affiliate, its patients, visitors, vendors, and medical, nursing, and/or allied health staff.
• Students may not use or disclose any patient identifying information of any kind in any social
media. This rule applies even if the patient is not identified by name where the information to
be used or disclosed may enable someone to identify the patient.
• Students are not permitted to use a clinical affiliate logo or LTC logo in any internet posting.
• Students are personally responsible for what they post.