Clinicals the 3 week of school?

[NicoleAlbertie84]

I start my LPN program on Monday Dec 30th and we start clinical rotations the third week of school. What could we possibly have learned in 2 weeks? Does anyone else start this soon?

[Okie36]

Head to toe assessment and general vital signs I would imagine...

[TerraTracene]

My program I am starting usually starts clinicals. the first week. But with my class we are starting the second week. We had a class called jumpstart to fundamentals (it's new) that we had to learn head to toe assessment. The class was two weeks 3 days for 5hours. It you didn't pass that you couldn't go on to fundamentals which starts January 6.

[MissPriss618]

My program did this as well..We started clinicals around the 4th or 5th week.We were required to do skills check-offs (inserting an NG tube, foley caths, & wound care) in lab prior to being allowed to going into the clinical setting, but we did our first semester of clinicals in the nursing home.We were pretty much just doing head to toe assessments, vitals, giving bed baths, feeding, & turning.We didn't start the "hardcore" clinical stuff until 2nd semester when we started Med-Surg.Im not sure if this is how it works @ most schools.

[MissPriss618]

My program did this as well..We started clinicals around the 4th or 5th week.We were required to do skills check-offs (inserting an NG tube, foley caths, & wound care) on a mannequin in lab prior to being allowed to going into the clinical settings, but we did our first semester of clinicals in the nursing home--so we were pretty much just doing head to toe assessments, vitals, giving bed baths, feeding, & turning.We didn't start the "hardcore" clinical stuff until 2nd semester when we started Med-Surg.Im not sure if this is how it works @ most schools.

[sjalv]

My program did this as well..We started clinicals around the 4th or 5th week.We were required to do skills check-offs (inserting an NG tube, foley caths, & wound care) in lab prior to being allowed to going into the clinical setting, but we did our first semester of clinicals in the nursing home.We were pretty much just doing head to toe assessments, vitals, giving bed baths, feeding, & turning.We didn't start the "hardcore" clinical stuff until 2nd semester when we started Med-Surg.Im not sure if this is how it works @ most schools.

This is exactly how it went in my first semester of a 2 year RN program.

[Mainergal2000]

ADLs probably to start out and vital signs.

[somatik1989]

I started school on December 2nd we are on our 5th week of school , we do not start clinical until end of February I go to school part time lvn program , we are learning the nursing process, vital signs , and head to toe assessment

We started our clinical rotations on the second week of school.

Facility orientation followed by ADLs and assessments... working in pairs.

[pixiestudent2]

The second week of school, our assignment for clinal was to talk to our patients, then complete and interview with a staff member that wasn't an RN. The 3rd week was vitals and adls.

[elkpark]

In my program, we started within the first few weeks of school. Did basic assessments, beds, baths, VS, etc.

[kenee23]

At my school we started clinical rotations that same week we went to class on Monday and had orientation and we started clinicals that Friday we met with our clinical instructor but during that week we did bed bath, vital signs, ADL's and bed making so during that week we did a lot of things that we can get ready for. It still surprises me how much I've learned within these couple of months