Class sizes

I had skills lab last night and there were 14 in there, which seemed fine to me. We worked in smaller groups and the instructor had plenty of time to go around to each group and assist.

We have lecture tonight (theory) and I think that all 45 of the evening/weekend students are together for that. I'm not sure how I feel knowing that it will be such a large number, but I am told that in our program the students really bind together to get through the material, so I'm reserving judgment on that for now.

Our clinical groups are 8 per group I think. Since I have not yet done this, I don't know how it is going to actually be. I can definately let you know once I've had the experience, although, I think that 8 is pretty typical.

My clinical groups have about 8 per group...My lectures on the other hand are huge. My Care of the Complex Adult has 105 of us in lecture as well as my home health lecture is about the same size. It is crazy.

Wow that's a big class, we only have 24 people accepted into our campus's program, then we also have two other campus's that take around the same amount.

I think we had a total of 60 some students, however at the end of the semester, we had about 45 or so.

At the begining of year one we had 59 students. We are now 6 weeks from the end of year one and we are down to 34 But this includes both mental health and adult so when we split our groups are even smaller. Some adult students have transfered to mental health. I think that we have got about 12 for our year 2 adult branch which is fantastic.

Our school is separated by semesters, so like most of you we'll be in classes with all the same people until we graduate.

But my patho, pharm, and process class had 84 students in the first semester...the smallest class was 21 which was for skills lab. Clinicals we had 9 students.

now 2 semesters later I think my semester is down to 75 students depending on how many dropped or did not pass last semester.

There are about 90 nursing students in my year and we all have Pathophysiology, Pharmocology, and Nursing Interventions together. Our skills lab for Interventions is 20 people and out Developmental Psychology class is around 120 people. They sound big, but I've never really found it an issue. Since we all know each other from all of our classes, even though it's a large number of people, it's all familiar faces so it doesn't seem overwhelming or anything.

I think our class has 33 people in it and we are divided into two groups for labs. I think that the small class size allows for more one on one attention and that is something that I think most people could use.

My cohort started with 35 and now were down to 12 going into our last semester

our class started out with 16, we lost 2 after the first semester ( which were replaced by bridge students) then two more during the second. so we are at 14 now.

The size of clinicals may be set by the state board of nursing. Here in New Mexico, I can only have 8 students per clinical group while at a hospital, Texas I think it is 10.

The largest didactic class I have taught had 99. Giving those team tests was a challenge but the students were great. I learned all their names by end of semester!! I was a real kick when they asked for me to read their names at the pinning ceremony:redbeathe