Student Handbook
Attendance Policy

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Your clinical experience will consist of an 8 hour day (40 hour week). Usually this will be during the day shift. Exact times of starting and ending your shift will vary among the affiliates, and may even vary between laboratory sections. You may be scheduled briefly on the evening shift, night shift, or on weekends as part of your clinical experience. You will always be working under the supervision of a qualified instructor.

We expect you to have no absences. Every day at the clinical site is important. Certain activities are scheduled each day within each section of the lab. If you miss time, you interrupt the schedule. The technologists at each site are performing both service work and teaching you. If you are absent, this puts even more pressure on the teaching technologists to schedule make up time for you.

You may be absent due to illness. In this case, you MUST conform to the laboratory's procedures for reporting your absence. A death in your family or severe weather that closes roads and highways are other valid reasons for absence. Again, you must follow the lab's procedures for reporting your absence. You will not get time off for job interviews or for medical or dental appointments other than true emergencies.

If you are absent, you must make up the time you missed. You can only make up the time under supervision, which may limit your opportunities to progress on schedule. Depending on the situation, you may make up time after your regular hours, on weekends, or after the end of your scheduled clinical experience. When you can make up the time is the decision of your clinical supervisor, with the approval of the coordinator at the site.