STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT
All Charisma SPD students are expected to maintain professional, respectful, safe, and ethical conduct during classroom instruction, online learning, laboratory activities, clinical placement, and all communications connected with the program.
Students must:
• Attend scheduled classes and clinical assignments punctually and notify Charisma SPD promptly of an absence or delay.
• Treat instructors, staff, classmates, patients, clinical-site personnel, and members of the public with dignity and respect.
• Follow all Charisma SPD rules and all clinical-site policies, including instructions concerning safety, infection prevention, confidentiality, identification, dress, attendance, electronic devices, and restricted areas.
• Protect patient, student, employee, and facility information. Students must not photograph, record, post, copy, discuss, or disclose confidential information except as authorized for legitimate educational purposes.
• Complete their own coursework, quizzes, examinations, and assignments honestly. Cheating, plagiarism, falsifying records or clinical hours, impersonation, unauthorized collaboration, or sharing restricted assessment materials is prohibited.
• Use online resources, accounts, passwords, course materials, and practice quizzes only as authorized. Students must not share access, reproduce or distribute protected materials, bypass assigned attempt limits, or interfere with program systems.
• Report to class and clinical placement fit for duty and free from impairment by alcohol, illegal drugs, or any substance that could compromise safety.
• Refrain from harassment, discrimination, bullying, threats, violence, retaliation, disruptive conduct, insubordination, theft, fraud, property damage, and possession of weapons where prohibited by law or policy.
• Follow lawful and reasonable instructions and promptly report safety concerns, injuries, incidents, policy violations, or potential conflicts of interest.
Charisma SPD may use progressive discipline when appropriate, including counseling, a written warning, probation, suspension, removal from a clinical site, or dismissal. Serious misconduct may result in immediate dismissal. Conduct that may result in dismissal includes violence or threats, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, theft, fraud, falsification of records or clinical hours, serious confidentiality or patient-privacy violations, cheating, deliberate safety violations, being under the influence, unauthorized access or sharing of course systems, refusal to follow lawful instructions, or conduct that causes a clinical site to remove the student.
Dismissal for misconduct does not automatically create a right to a refund. Any refund will be determined under the applicable enrollment agreement, the Tuition, Payment Plan, Cancellation, Refund & Clinical Placement Policy, and controlling law. Charisma SPD will apply this policy fairly and may consider the seriousness, frequency, circumstances, and safety impact of the conduct.