am i misunderstanding this schedule?!

[SraKristina]

ok so i'm prenursing right now (on "the list" ) but i'm moving out of my gparents house so i was looking ahead to make sure i will be able to handle working full time once im in the program

so i looked at the schools reccomended course of study and compared it with the schedule to get ideas of the amount of time ill be in class and this is what i came up with

one semester i will only hafta take 2 classes (NSG 150 and 155) which is a total of 10 credits, but each class is only half a semester. so i will only have lecture (for exp) on thursdays from 9:10 am - 12:00 pm and then 12 hours of clinical a week (which ive heard is usually all in one day) and thats basically how every semester seems; (about 4 hours of theory and 12 of clinical)

i finished all of my pre and corequisites already so all i will be taking are the nursing courses, but still this just seems like way less class time than i was expecting.. someone explain to me where i messed up (because i know i did somewhere) .... oh and i know about the TONS of homework, but still this doesnt seem like much time spent at school/clinicals

thanks so much

btw my school is Henry Ford Community in Detroit

[mom2michael, MSN, RN, NP]

Here is what I had my last 3 semesters:

#1

Mon: 8-10 (Theory)

W/R 11-3 (Interventions) 10 week class

R (after Interventions ended) clinical 12 hour days

#2

M: 8-10 (Family Development) and 10-3 (Interventions)

W: clinicals 12 hour shifts

#3

M: 10-12 Maternal/Child

T: 8-10 Psych and 10-12 Med/Surg

R: Clinicals 12 hours

We don't have skill check off's or labs outside of class. We do have several computer programs that are required for each unit, so we do have to stay "extra" for those though...maybe an hour a week or so.

Our program is very different though, we mainly do peer to peer teaching on subject matters. Each unit is very specific on what we are going to be tested on and/or talked about during that particular class period, therefore you are responsible for knowing this material prior to coming to class that day. We aren't lectured to, instead it's more of a Q&A type learning environment. If there is one particular subject matter we are confused about, we'll have a mini lecture. But for the most part, we don't cover huge amounts of material in class, we cover it at home on our own time. Then we discuss highlights of it in class.

[Mistify]

My school basically is set up for classes two days a week(9a-5p) and three days of clinicals a week(total of 24- 30 hours weekly). Our skills check off are done while we are in clinicals on real patients(no pressure there ) and we have had a couple of labs but they are scheduled after the class room time. I am one of only a couple of people that work in my class and I only work on weekends.