A Typical Week at Nursing School?

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I'm a junior in high school and I am pretty sure that I want to become a RN. I was wondering what a typical week is like at Nursing school? I know there is a lot of school work involved, but how much? What are clinicals like? What are classes/lectures like?

Most programs I've looked at should only take 4 years -- 2 of prereqs and 2 of nursing...and they probably average 17 credits/semester all 4 years.

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Specializes in Clinical Partner and CNA.

I agree with taking your pre-req's first. This will be my first semester in nursing school but our schedule is like this:

Monday- 9:00-12:20 Foundations of Nursing

1:00-2:20 Pharmacology

Tuesday-

Wednesday- Lab 8:00-2:00

Thursday-

Friday- 9:00-12:20 Foundations of Nursing

1:100-2:20 Pharmacology

Either Tuesday or Thursday I will have a clinical day from 8:00-2:00 and then the other day will be my off day. We won't get our clinical schedule until August. I've heard though 2nd and 3rd semesters are more lab and clinicals, less lectures. 4th semester is mostly just clinicals.

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Specializes in None Yet.

I haven't started my classes just yet (not until Sept), but I do know what classes I'll be taking.

I'm in an 18 month LPN program... so it's not the same as an RN course, but I figure every little bit of knowledge helps.

So, I'll be taking 6 classes, A+P, Skills Lab, Elder Care, Communication, Med Terminology and Fundamentals of Nursing. We start clinical a few weeks into the semester, we do 2 full weeks of clinical from 7am - 12pm and then go to class afterwards.

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i dont know if anyone suggested this but do you have a particular college in mind?

go to their website, the part where you register for classes, if you do a little research, figure out which classes are needed for a 1st semester nursing student. then you would know exactly how much is needed for YOUR program because i cant stress enough how DIFFERENT nursing schools/programs are. Honestly.

In short-

It's a lot of hard work but if you really want it, you can do it.

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