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Dismissal from the Program - Students

Student Dismissal from the Nursing Program

In addition to requirements specified in the Student Code of Conduct and Clinical Expectations of Conduct (Clinical Expectations, Absences, and Grading) for students at Donnelly College, grounds for dismissal of students in the Nursing Program shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

  • Unsafe and/or unethical nursing practice as documented by instructors, college faculty, clinical staff, and other health care personnel.
  • Conduct that jeopardizes the safety of clients, clinical facility staff, college faculty and staff, or other students.
  • Clinical facility/unit staff request that a student not return to area.
  • Failure to resolve problems that caused the student to be placed on academic probation resulting in a second semester probation or second semester of Academic Suspension.
  • Repeated violations of the attendance policy.
  • LEGAL: An arrest or conviction of a crime or major misdemeanor during the course of the nursing program that makes a student ineligible for the nursing license examination or failure to report past or current legal misdemeanors or felonies.
  • Non-payment of fees and tuition
  • Academic integrity concerns

DISMISSAL RESULTING FROM ANY OF THE ABOVE CIRCUMSTANCES WILL MAKE THE STUDENT PERMANENTLY INELIGIBLE FOR READMISSION TO ANY DONNELLY COLLEGE NURSING PROGRAMS. 


Student Dismissal due to Failing Grades

  1. A nursing course that is failed (grade of D or F) may be repeated only once. The student will not be allowed to progress in the curriculum until the failed course(s) has been repeated.
    Failure of the same repeated course a second time will result in dismissal from the program.
  2. If there is a failure in one part of the course (lecture, clinical practice or lab) the total course (all sections) will need to be retaken. 
  3. Program dismissal due to two course failures, lecture or clinical, requires that the student wait 1 year but less than 2 years before applying for readmission.
  4. Any student who fails three courses (even if two failures are the same course) will not be allowed to return to the program.
    A course that was appealed and the failure changed to a pass will not count as one of the three failures.

Student Request for Readmission (after failing grades per above)

  1. A student with grade failures per above can apply for readmission after 1 year. Readmission must be within 2 years. Students seeking readmission should note that if their first-semester nursing courses are more than two years old, they will be required to restart and repeat the full nursing curriculum
  2. If there have been major curriculum changes, the student will be required to take any new content and/or courses that were added during the time away.
  3. If readmission occurs after a 2 year break, the dismissed student will be required to repeat the entire nursing curriculum.
  4. Returning students need to resubmit a Nursing Application during the spring or fall admission periods for their respective nursing program. It is important to work with the Nursing Advisor throughout this process. crisher@donnelly.edu
  5. Acceptance will be considered on a space available basis
  6. At the director's discretion, the student may be asked to complete competency and/or skills testing with a 90% pass rate or better before being granted readmission.
  7. Students returning to their nursing program after course failures must be admitted with a restart date for the failed class(es) before a two-year period has elapsed from the time of the original course.. If a student comes back to repeat a course, but the break is more than 2 years old, the student will be required to repeat the entire nursing curriculum.