How many hours/days per week do you spend in clinical?

[Skips]

I'm just wondering. (:

I am in Med/Surg 2 in a BSN program. We go to the hospital 2 days per week, 9 hour days each. I'm on a cardiac progressive care unit, so anything can happen. It's great! We also have two observation days built in. I go next week to observe in the OR and in-patient wound care. We also have a community day where we go to the homeless shelter and do some teaching at different stations. So, really, we have 5 more weeks of hospital clinical left aside from the community/obs days.

What about you?

[NICUmiiki, DNP, NP]

We get a little more than 1200 in our program. You get 60 before you even start the program, 96 in the first semester, and the rest during the nest 4 semesters.

[unicoRNurse]

I'm in second semester and we have 15 hours per week over three days. We also have observational experiences, OR and such, but those don't count toward clinical hours.

[ChrisMarie09]

Last semester we had 1 day for 4 hours each week in assisted living/community health. This semester it sounds like we'll have a 5 hour clinical split between a nursing home and hospital once a week plus a 3 hour skills lab. Next year will be three 8 hour days each week for both semesters. I can't say I'm impressed with our clinical set up or progression.

[Shorty11, BSN, RN]

I'm in my 3rd semester (BSN). For MedSurg 1, we have a 12 hr clinical 1 day a week, every other week. We also have a 4 hr simulation lab on opposite weeks 1 day a week. For Mental Health Nursing, we have an 8 hr clinical 1 day a week, every week.