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The majority of our clinicals were at various nursing homes. I did spend one set of clinicals at a trach/vent LTC facility. We did do maternity and psych at the hospital on those specific units. We also had to do a dialysis clinical at one of the out patient hemodialysis clinics as well as community nursing (which we spend a few days with the local visiting nurse of the hospital). If we had done all our require things in our last semester we were rotated out to the hospital and were able to spend time and observe the OR, hospital CHF clinic. I was able to do the GI clinic as well as doing some of our clinical time on the med/surg floor of one of the hospitals. But all in all the majority of clinical time was spent in the nursing home. I don't find it unusual.
peppapig123
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I spoke to someone at a school today about their lpn program and I asked about their clinical sites. They said they're mostly in nursing homes. Now I know in most areas lpn's are mainly employed in ltc facilities, but I was under the impression that LPN programs had clinicals at hospitals too. Was I wrong? where were your clinicals located? Is that a sign of a bad program?