WGU - RN to BSN - 90 hr clinical requirement. How are you meeting it?

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I am interested in 's RN to BSN program, but am interested in hearing how you have satisfied the 90 hour clinical requirement.

Does anyone have any information?

Thanks!

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

You keep a log. Unless you are in California, there is no signing off by anyone, but the logs are subject to random audits.

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What do you mean by keeping a log? I live in New York. When I write down my hours do I have to get each logged hour signed by someone or do I just jot down how many hours I did. Are they going to check up on all the hours I did to make sure they are ligitimate?

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

As I mentioned, unless you're in California, you do not need anyone to sign off on it. You just keep track of it, what hours you spent on which thing, and you submit it with your project. And yes, the log is potentially subject to audit.

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Thank you!

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I live in California and we do have 90 hours of clinical service. The hours are in various areas of nursing related to public health. We may work with a nurse navigator, school nurse, public health nurse, mental health, or correctional (jail) nurses. I work full time in critical care, so this has really been difficult to do. We are required to have each shift signed off by a preceptor, and are not allowed to count travel time. The preceptors are in contact with the professor, and confirm our schedules each week. In addition we have 4 hours of class time each week, and a weekly clinical journal log (about 1,000 words) to turn in every Saturday, as well as an APA paper due each week. Between the clinicals, class, work, and assignments, I have not taken a day off in 16 days. I just put a project to bed. Tomorrow is my next to the last class, and I have only one power point presentation left to do, then I'm done with the class. We have 4 weeks after the end of class to compete the clinical hours. I'd love to hear from other California residents to learn how they managed the clinical hours, and if there are ways to incorporate non-clinical activities.

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I live in California and we do have 90 hours of clinical service. The hours are in various areas of nursing related to public health. We may work with a nurse navigator, school nurse, public health nurse, mental health, or correctional (jail) nurses. I work full time in critical care, so this has really been difficult to do. We are required to have each shift signed off by a preceptor, and are not allowed to count travel time. The preceptors are in contact with the professor, and confirm our schedules each week. In addition we have 4 hours of class time each week, and a weekly clinical journal log (about 1,000 words) to turn in every Saturday, as well as an APA paper due each week. Between the clinicals, class, work, and assignments, I have not taken a day off in 16 days. I just put a project to bed. Tomorrow is my next to the last class, and I have only one power point presentation left to do, then I'm done with the class. We have 4 weeks after the end of class to compete the clinical hours. I'd love to hear from other California residents to learn how they managed the clinical hours, and if there are ways to incorporate non-clinical activities.

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Can someone clarify this course for me?

I am in NJ but I hear conflicting information on this.

Is it a course where I just interview anyone out in the community on a particular subject?

Is it a course that you have to contact your employers for information?

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Specializes in Outpatient/Clinic, ClinDoc.
Can someone clarify this course for me?

I am in NJ but I hear conflicting information on this.

Is it a course where I just interview anyone out in the community on a particular subject?

Is it a course that you have to contact your employers for information?

In california, you need to have someone to sign off hours. In other states, yes, you pick a subject and interview out in the community for that subject. Other things can be used for hours as well - it's been a few years so I am not sure what the current rules are - but when I did it, you could also use live webinars, seminars, that kind of thing. But you don't have to contact your employers for that class.

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In california, you need to have someone to sign off hours. In other states, yes, you pick a subject and interview out in the community for that subject. Other things can be used for hours as well - it's been a few years so I am not sure what the current rules are - but when I did it, you could also use live webinars, seminars, that kind of thing. But you don't have to contact your employers for that class.

Ok,thanks.

In that other thread someone was saying you needed your employers for that course.

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Hey All! I'm here working on my C229 ('s Community Field Work) and would like to know if anyone out there has ever be "audited" by their course mentor and what that entails. Some of the phone #'s I have to supply are somewhat generic and I'm not sure they'd ever reach the person that I had contact with...I suppose they could ask me in the long run and I could help them verify or they could ask my preceptor (?)-----anyone experience this after submitting their paper?

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I'm interested to know if anyone else has been audited. I am at the brink of submitting my paper and hours and would hate to have it turned-down on the account of "inappropriate" hours. I thought this class would be easier but a full time job, and two kids has proven this to be super difficult. I can't wait to put this behind me.

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Specializes in NICU, RNC.
I live in California and we do have 90 hours of clinical service. The hours are in various areas of nursing related to public health. We may work with a nurse navigator, school nurse, public health nurse, mental health, or correctional (jail) nurses. I work full time in critical care, so this has really been difficult to do. We are required to have each shift signed off by a preceptor, and are not allowed to count travel time. The preceptors are in contact with the professor, and confirm our schedules each week. In addition we have 4 hours of class time each week, and a weekly clinical journal log (about 1,000 words) to turn in every Saturday, as well as an APA paper due each week. Between the clinicals, class, work, and assignments, I have not taken a day off in 16 days. I just put a project to bed. Tomorrow is my next to the last class, and I have only one power point presentation left to do, then I'm done with the class. We have 4 weeks after the end of class to compete the clinical hours. I'd love to hear from other California residents to learn how they managed the clinical hours, and if there are ways to incorporate non-clinical activities.

This is at ? Why have I never heard anyone else say anything anywhere close to this? I thought the preceptor just had to sign off on your hours, not make you write a weekly paper and attend class sessions???

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