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It’s been a tough week for students in the collaborative nursing program at Canadore College and Nipissing University.
It began Monday when some 200 nursing students checked their marks for their clinical course work to discover most had received either “unsatisfactory” or “in-progress” grades.
Ally Harrison, President of the Nipissing University Nursing Society (NUNS), says the grades came as a surprise to the first, second and third-year nursing students. “Students were quite shocked, they thought it was a mistake,” Harrison explained.
As per the program’s policy, students who are at risk of not passing their clinical work are supposed to come up with an academic plan with their clinical lead in the middle of the semester. Harrison says no such correspondence happened for anyone. “These students were fully under the impression that they were passing this class because they hadn’t been informed of anything else,” sh
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The Nipissing University Student Union (NUSU) is applauding a decision by Canadore College and Nipissing University to put forward a plan that will allow students in the Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to “progress to the next level of study.”
About 200 students were shocked Monday to find they had been assigned INP, INC (incomplete) or UNSAT (unsatisfactory) marks, which has been blamed on the inability of many to take part in the clinical portion of their year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Nipissing University Student Union (NUSU) is calling on Canadore College and instructors in the Collaborative Nursing Program it operates with the university to apologize to almost 200 students who received unsatisfactory, in progress or incomplete marks this year.
The marks mean the students will be unable to progress and may have to repeat their year of studies, which the student union blames on students’ inability to attend clinical hours at the North Bay Regional Health Centre due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The return to on-campus classes at Nipissing University is not expected to begin until at least after students’ reading week.
Following the Ontario government’s declaration of a second provincial emergency Tuesday, and the announcement of a new order requiring everyone to stay home except for essential purposes, Nipissing released an update detailing the impact on students and faculty.
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Winter term courses will now be delivered online until after reading week, or Feb. 22.
Prior to that, the university planned to deliver classes online until Jan. 23.