Should I take Peds this summer?

[Wrangler156]

Hello all! so I am halfway though my 2nd semester of nursing school going good so far! Thankfully !! I start my clinical rotations next week yay! nervous but excited. My floor assignment is Oncology/Hospice. Super nervous about that! Anyways onto what I am asking ..... So we have to take peds, ob, and psych next semester. Last semester and this semester our school had 5 weeks with each so you would have 5 weeks with peds, then 5 weeks with OB, then 5 weeks with Psych. Well of course when it is my turn to do this they change it all up. Now instead of having it separated we have all 3 all at once :/ eek! I know people do this everywhere and are just fine I am just super nervous! They have given us the option if we would like to take peds as a 5 week course in the summer. I am debating if I should do this or not.... The teacher said it is very intense so it worries me I may not pass. If I took peds in the summer I would only have OB and Psych in the fall which still puts me at full time which is a good thing. Does anyone have any input on what I should do? What would you do if you were in my shoes? Part of me says do peds in the summer so you can concentrate on it and have only 2 classes in the fall while the other half says suck it up and do all 3 at once like 90% of everyone else is doing.... Thoughts anyone?

Thanks in advance!!

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

Are you takin any other classes this summer? I would take it jut so I wouldn't have 3 classes at once but that's just me:)

[runsalot]

We have the opt of taking psy in the summer. I jumped all over it.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

I had the option to take my geriatric med-surg over the summer (and during another summer, I was able to take my community health rotation). I was all over that. The class size was much smaller (7-10 students) and the class was also shorter (classes used to be about 8 weeks in length during a regular semester but over the summer they were only 5) and let me tell you, that was the best thing I ever done. I only had that one class I had to focus on in the summer instead of five+ other classes during a regular semester. Taking those classes also got me ahead in nursing school and I was able to graduate a semester earlier.

And for my community health rotation? First off, I thought that rotation was very boring. The lecture was even worse. The instructors didn't have enough "time" to squeeze everything in 5 weeks, so we actually reviewed less material than the traditional 8 week-long course. So it was actually easier for us in the summer. And honestly, I think I would have gouged my eyeballs out if I had to sit through 8 weeks of that lecture.

[Wrangler156]

Nope not taking any other classes this summer. They rarely let us take anything in the summer sadly Seriously considering taking it this summer now that I have heard others input....

[Wrangler156]

So I just found out it is for the whole summer, which may be better so it isn't so time crunched. Just trying to get my friend to take it with me so I won't be alone ( I know sounds stupid ) :)