My jurisdiction is: North Carolina
I was written up by my clinical site for violating a hospital check writing policy. I had written a check for my meal in the hospital cafeteria. The check ended up bouncing and the nursing supervisior wrote me up on the college's disciplenary form stating that I had "violated hospital policy" because student's were not supposed to write checks. I know my instructor had personal issues with me and I feel she had the nursing supervisor fill the form out so she could use it against me. I was immediately dismissed from school with only two days left before graduating. I immediately appealed my instructors decision to the dean of instruction. She sided with my instructor. When I asked the dean of instruction to show me the written policy that stated students could not write checks, I learned that the hospital did not even have a policy on student check writing. She said since the hospital didn't actually have a written policy that she was basing her decision on an ethical viewpoint. Her ethical viewpoint was that writing a check without sufficent funds was the same thing as theft. I even showed her my receipt where I had paid for the returned check and she said that didn't matter because I was dismissed for writing the check and that the payment for it had nothing to do with it. I asked how I violated something that didn't even exist and she could only keep contradicting herself. I have appealed her decision so I will have to go before the college appeals committee. I have not received a hearing date yet and I filed the appeal over a month ago. My hearing date with the dean of instruction was the day before graduation. I feel the school knew the day before graduation that I had not violated any hospital policy, had excellent performance reviews, and that I had passing grades but they still chose not let me graduate. I feel I was unfairly dismissed. Where can I do about it and where can I go from here?
I was written up by my clinical site for violating a hospital check writing policy. I had written a check for my meal in the hospital cafeteria. The check ended up bouncing and the nursing supervisior wrote me up on the college's disciplenary form stating that I had "violated hospital policy" because student's were not supposed to write checks. I know my instructor had personal issues with me and I feel she had the nursing supervisor fill the form out so she could use it against me. I was immediately dismissed from school with only two days left before graduating. I immediately appealed my instructors decision to the dean of instruction. She sided with my instructor. When I asked the dean of instruction to show me the written policy that stated students could not write checks, I learned that the hospital did not even have a policy on student check writing. She said since the hospital didn't actually have a written policy that she was basing her decision on an ethical viewpoint. Her ethical viewpoint was that writing a check without sufficent funds was the same thing as theft. I even showed her my receipt where I had paid for the returned check and she said that didn't matter because I was dismissed for writing the check and that the payment for it had nothing to do with it. I asked how I violated something that didn't even exist and she could only keep contradicting herself. I have appealed her decision so I will have to go before the college appeals committee. I have not received a hearing date yet and I filed the appeal over a month ago. My hearing date with the dean of instruction was the day before graduation. I feel the school knew the day before graduation that I had not violated any hospital policy, had excellent performance reviews, and that I had passing grades but they still chose not let me graduate. I feel I was unfairly dismissed. Where can I do about it and where can I go from here?
