Editing Herzing Issues: Licensure Eligibility and State Board Compliance (section)

=== HU-085a: Alabama Board of Nursing enforcement of insufficient in-person clinical hours required final-semester Alabama students to complete 24 additional hours at UAB before they could sit for NCLEX ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:14em" | Severity
| Critical
! Status
| CONFIRMED
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! Issue type
| State BON Enforcement Blocking NCLEX Eligibility
! Date added
| 2026-05-05 (split 2026-06-06)
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Compliance / Dean of Nursing / Clinical Coordination
|}
'''Finding.''' Per the tracker's evidence, the Alabama Board of Nursing was enforcing a minimum in-person clinical-hour requirement that the program's virtual clinical hours did not satisfy. Final-semester Alabama students were required to complete 24 additional hours at UAB before they could sit for the NCLEX. A student who went to the Alabama Board of Nursing in person reported being told the institution had long known, that only certain clinical coordinators (not top administrators) were aware, and that action followed only after the student threatened legal action and emailed everyone.

'''Evidence.''' Handle 10 (April 4, 2026), reporting an in-person visit to the Alabama Board of Nursing; Handle 4 (April 3, 2026), corroborating that Alabama students could not sit for the NCLEX because of the virtual clinical hours; Anonymous member 441 (December 28, 2025), referencing Alabama Board of Nursing issues. Source Group: Facebook Group Export (Volume 7).

'''Reported statement.''' Handle 10 reports being told by the Alabama Board of Nursing that Herzing had long known about the requirement and should have addressed it, and that none of Herzing's top administrators were aware of it, only certain clinical coordinators. Handle 10 states that action was taken only after threatening legal action and emailing everyone. Handle 4 separately reports that Alabama students could not sit for the NCLEX because of the virtual clinical hours.

'''Standards.''' ACEN Standard 6 (program outcomes include NCLEX eligibility and passage); NCSBN Model Nursing Practice Act (state boards may refuse NCLEX eligibility if program requirements are not met); Alabama Board of Nursing regulations on minimum in-person direct-care hours; 34 CFR 668.43(a)(5)(v) (disclosure of whether a program meets state licensure requirements). Lead: {{HU|HU-085}}. Extends {{HU|HU-070}} (Virginia direct-care hours).

'''Impact.''' Alabama students who completed the program could not sit for the NCLEX without completing additional hours at UAB that are not part of the program curriculum, an unexpected cost in time and money. The report that only certain clinical coordinators knew indicates a systemic internal communication failure on a Board of Nursing compliance gap affecting the institution's own students.

'''Notes.''' Sub-issue of {{HU|HU-085}} (lead). Split 2026-06-06.

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