Keiser's clinical conduct rules

No call/no show

Keiser's older Graduate Nursing Programs Clinical Manual (2017) is blunt about unannounced absences: missing a clinical day without notifying your preceptor and course faculty is a "no call/no show" that "may result in dismissal from the program." Check your syllabus for the current wording, and treat the rule as live. When you cannot make a clinical day:

1. Reach your preceptor firstContact them before the shift starts, through whatever channel they asked you to use for same-day changes.
2. Tell course faculty the same dayKeiser's rule names both people, so a message to your preceptor alone does not cover it.
3. Rebook the hoursAgree a make-up day that keeps you on pace and inside the 16-hour limit on consecutive clinical time.
4. Update your planRevise the days listed in the plan you filed with faculty, so the schedule they hold is the one you are keeping.

Honest hours and direct supervision

The 2023 Policy and Procedure Manual lists misrepresenting clinical hours as clinical misconduct. In practice that means logging only time you actually spent at the approved site, with your approved preceptor, on the date you record. Rounding up, back-filling a missed day and crediting a clinician Keiser never reviewed all fall on the wrong side of that line.

Supervision belongs to the same set of rules. Keiser's 2023 clinical sites policy says preceptors are always to supervise students directly, and a clinician covering for yours must hold the same credentials and experience. Clinical hours are also unpaid, and the clinical manual rules out payment to students for the work they do in that role. The Typhon guide and what counts as a clinical hour cover the logging side.

When a site raises a concern

Clinical sites have a real say in whether a student stays. Keiser's drug screening policy allows further screening at any point if the site or the University requires it, and a site may ask for the full report from your background check; the background check guide covers both.

Performance concerns follow Keiser's process. Under the 2023 manual, a student whose performance at a site falls short is given an action plan, and that plan could include repeating the rotation. A poor evaluation from a preceptor goes to your faculty member, who rules on whether the course goals were met. In the campus pre-licensure programs, a site's request to remove a student leads the program to try placing that student at a different site; after a second removal there is no further reassignment and the course is failed.

Starting every practicum on the right footing

A good placement makes Keiser's conduct rules easy to keep. We settle clinic days with your preceptor across the whole term before your plan reaches faculty, so your attendance record starts from a schedule both sides have already accepted. The preceptor has the dates and days in writing from the start, and you know exactly who to call if a day has to move. Residency weekends and known time off go into the schedule up front, so nothing on the plan surprises either side mid-term.

If a preceptor leaves or a site changes its mind, we stay on call and start looking for a new preceptor who fits Keiser's rules, with the Preceptor/Mentor Information Form details ready for faculty review. That is what a thorough Keiser placement looks like from the first clinic day to the last. Talk to the placement desk.