Editing Herzing Issues: Clinical Placement (section)

=== HU-178: An unidentified, unsaved-contact cohort member in the Nursing '27 group chat reported that her clinical instructor was fired and all of her remaining scheduled clinical sessions to complete required medical surgical nursing hours were cancelled ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:12em" | Severity
| High
! style="width:12em" | Status
| POSSIBLE, secondhand and unverified as to the stated cause (termination) and the claim that all remaining clinical sessions were cancelled; the existence of cohort-wide concern and sympathetic responses is directly shown in the screenshot
|-
! Issue type
| Clinical Instructor Termination Cancels Scheduled Clinical Sessions Needed to Complete Required Hours; Unverified Secondhand Cohort Report
! Date added
| 2026-07-17
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Nursing '27 cohort clinical leadership; Program Chair; Director of Clinical Placement and Compliance
|}
'''Finding.''' According to the tracker, in the Nursing '27 group chat, an unidentified cohort member, shown only as an unsaved contact ending 9923, wrote that her clinical instructor got fired and that all of her scheduled clinical sessions with that instructor to finish out her medical surgical nursing hours were cancelled. Several cohort members reacted with concern, including messages reading "WHAT" and "That's crazyyyy," along with distressed emoji reactions. A student identified in the chat as Student A responded with sympathy. A second cohort member, shown with the initials CB and identified in the chat as Student AB, separately reported the same post with a distressed emoji reaction, suggesting the concern was shared by more than one cohort member. A student identified as Student CT responded with encouragement, noting the cohort has three semesters remaining. No institutional communication, remediation plan, or makeup clinical scheduling was shown in the visible portion of the thread. This report has not been independently verified and the identity of the original poster is not established beyond an unsaved phone number; it is logged as a possible instance of a pattern already partly documented in this tracker, where an NSG 523 medical surgical nursing instructor and an NSG 525 Clinical II instructor both stepped away from the same cohort during the 2026 Summer C16 term. Unlike that earlier entry, this report specifically claims a termination rather than a voluntary step away, and specifically claims cancellation of clinical sessions needed to complete required hours rather than only a change in course coverage; whether this is a new development in the same underlying situation or a separate instance has not been confirmed and should be verified directly with the reporting student or with clinical leadership before this entry is treated as confirmed.

'''Evidence.''' Screenshot of the Nursing '27 iMessage group chat, provided by the reporting student. Message from an unsaved contact, [phone redacted]: a report that her clinical instructor was fired and her remaining med surg clinical sessions with that instructor were cancelled. Cohort responses include messages from unsaved contacts reading "WHAT" and "That's crazyyyy," a distressed emoji reaction, a message from Student A expressing sympathy, a separate distressed emoji reaction from a cohort member identified as Student AB (shown with initials CB), and an encouraging message from a cohort member identified as Student CT noting three semesters remain. Student: The reporting student is the documenting and observing student; the underlying report concerns an unidentified cohort member in the Nursing '27 group chat, identified in the chat only by an unsaved phone contact ending 9923. Source Group: Screenshot of the Nursing '27 iMessage group chat, message from an unsaved contact ([phone redacted]), posted the day before the screenshot was captured at 7:37 PM, with cohort responses through the following afternoon; provided by the reporting student.

'''Reported statement.''' The unidentified cohort member, an anonymous handle, paraphrased that her clinical instructor had been fired and that all of her remaining scheduled clinical sessions to finish her med-surg hours were cancelled.

'''Standards.''' The Prelicensure Student Handbook 2026, Clinical Placement and Clinical Onboarding sections, describes clinical rotations as scheduled by the institution and subject to facility and program requirements, without a stated contingency for abrupt loss of an assigned instructor mid-term. Faculty sufficiency and continuity are addressed by accreditation standards requiring sufficient qualified faculty to achieve program outcomes and to maintain continuity of instruction (Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, 2023; confirm exact standard number against the current ACEN Standards and Criteria). HLC Criterion 3.C (the institution has the faculty and staff needed for effective, high-quality programs) and HLC Criterion 2.A (integrity in communications) are also potentially relevant if clinical hours are lost without a timely institutional remediation plan. This comparison is preliminary and should be revisited once the underlying facts are confirmed.

'''Impact.''' If accurate, the loss of scheduled clinical sessions needed to complete required medical surgical nursing hours could delay a student's progression or graduation, consistent with the hours shortfall pattern already documented elsewhere in this tracker for other clinical placement disruptions. Because the report is secondhand and the reporter is unidentified beyond a phone number, this risk is not yet established as fact and should be verified before being relied upon for any formal filing.

'''Notes.''' The reporting student's identity is not established beyond an unsaved phone number ending 9923; the claim that the instructor was fired, as opposed to resigning or stepping away, is unverified; and whether this report describes a new development in the previously documented NSG 523 or NSG 525 staffing situation, or a separate instance involving a different student or course, has not been confirmed. Recommend following up directly with the reporting student, if identity can be established, and with clinical leadership, before elevating this entry to CONFIRMED. Cross-references: the earlier tracker entry documenting the NSG 523 medical surgical nursing instructor and NSG 525 Clinical II instructor both stepping away from the same Nursing '27 cohort during 2026 Summer C16, and the earlier tracker entry documenting a different clinical course adjunct professor's resignation without institutional notice, are both potentially related patterns and should be compared directly against this report once the reporting student's identity and the specific facts are confirmed.

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