Incompletes and two-week extensions at Post

Incomplete or extension: the two side by side

Both options come from the Academic Policies section of Post's 2025-26 catalog, the newest whose nursing text could be read. The 2026-27 catalog is out, so confirm its wording with your Student Success Advisor.

How the American Sentinel College extension works

The American Sentinel College adds its own option, a two-week extension. You ask for it before the term ends, you need half of the required coursework done, and it carries a non-refundable fee. The end date is fixed: the extension closes exactly two weeks after the course end date, whatever day you filed.

Two details catch students out. Discussion posts cannot be made up during an extension, so participation points from missed weeks stay missed. And the American Sentinel College gives no "UF" grade: graded work still missing after the midpoint of a course produces an F. The extension suits assignments or hours that are genuinely underway, not a course that stalled halfway.

For nurse practitioner and DNP students the extension also triggers the rule in the next section, which is why it deserves more thought than its two-week length suggests.

Clinical hours in an extension: the Clinical Coordinator decides

When the unfinished part of a course is clinical hours, the extension runs through the Clinical Coordinator. The hours still have to be precepted by someone the Coordinator approved, at a site with a fully executed affiliation agreement, and logged in the student tracking system (Typhon) along with the preceptor's evaluation.

Before you ask, have three answers ready: how many hours remain, whether your preceptor can host them inside the two weeks, and which days they will cover. A preceptor who has already left is out of the picture, so a replacement would need approval and a complete document set first; the preceptor-dropped-out guide walks through that path.

Pace matters as well. A 135-hour preceptorship spread over 8 weeks runs at about 17 clinical hours a week, so a single lost week leaves roughly 17 hours to place into the extension, and your preceptor needs open clinic time for them. Pacing clinical hours and behind on clinical hours cover how to recover inside the term.

Keeping your clinical courses out of extension territory

The preceptor arrangement is where clinical hours are won or lost: a late start because the Week 1 packet was not ready, a preceptor whose clinic days shrank midway, a site that paused student rotations. Post Preceptor plans each preceptorship so those questions are settled before the term begins.

• We match you with a preceptor whose clinic days support a steady pace of about 17 hours a week, and we map that pace into the NP Clinical Schedule you submit.
• We gather the signed agreement letter plus the preceptor's CV, certification and license report, and file the affiliation agreement request well ahead, so the Week 1 packet is ready before the course opens.
• We line up the next course's preceptor while you are still in the current one.
• If a preceptor steps away mid-term, we are on call to find a replacement in the same setting and state and to assemble the new file for the Clinical Coordinator.

The Clinical Coordinator approves every preceptor and site; our job is to make sure what reaches the Coordinator is complete and correct the first time. Tell us about your next clinical course and your placement advisor will plan it with you.