Class sizes

sailornurse · Jan 14, 2009

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

That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Jan 14, 2009

We started with 19 already down to 15 after one semester.

Now for gen eds, they ranged from 7 to 130+ people.

missjennmb · Jan 14, 2009

We started out with 16, lost 1 first quarter, then 4 more 2nd quarter, gained one that had dropped the previous year, and now have 14. This group of 14 does almost everything together. We have all of our classes together (except AP - about half the class has AP2 right now). We split about 7 and 7 for clinicals though. I detest having such a small class. Yes, there is more teacher to go around, but there is also a lot more of a personal feel to everything and students are all in cliques and everything seems personal. The rumor mill is rampant, the backstabbing ect is horrific, and just in general, the "high school stuff" is worse because everyone "hangs out" together (well almost everyone). There's no option to just hang back and study and mind your own business without negative ramifications. Everyone is just in everyone else's business.

We should have lost many more people than we did first quarter, but the teachers, imo, pulled people through that they shouldn't have. I'm really suprised that we haven't lost more than we have. I expect another 1-2 to drop before the end of this semester, at the very least.

crazyNursingStudent1 · Jan 14, 2009

My class started with 16 and we lost one person so far. We will be split in half for clinicals.:typing

Am_Byth · Jan 14, 2009

There are 42 students in my class.

Each clinical has about 6 students per 1 instructor.

decosta · Jan 14, 2009

We had about 30 in class for lecture. For clinical we were separated into 6-8 at each clinical site.

mkblakley07 · Jan 14, 2009

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.

I think it's ten for texas. At least that's how many we have per clinical group at CTC and we have a whole class size of 39.

coolpeach · Jan 15, 2009

The top 40 students are chosen for the program, and we go through the entire program with the same 40 unless someone fails drops. If that does happen they fill the spot with someone who maybe dropped that semester for medical reasons etc who wants back in so its stays close to 40.

We do lecture with the entire 40. The 40 are broken down into 4 groups of 10 for clinical, and 2 clinical groups (20 students) share a skills lab.

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Jan 15, 2009

24 of us all together! for it all, we only split for clinicals and we split instructors on skills, but on the same lab!

i really like my 23 nursing friends!

shannn · Jan 15, 2009

Most of my classes have about 30-35 students in it, lab we have it split down smaller into two groups of 18 or so, which I don't find too bad because the teacher is still able to get around to everyone more than once during the class, most of her time is evenly divided to benefit everyone. Psychology we have all sections together so we have maybe 80 students in that class which is a little overwhelming especially since the classroom isn't built for that many students. We will have the same clinical groups as last semester in our nursing homes, which was 9 but im assuming it will be down a couple people since they dropped out.

RN BSN 2009 · Jan 15, 2009

Our clinicals have 8

Professional Development is about 15-20

And M/S II is 90 students

newbie08 · Jan 15, 2009

There are 48 in my Adult Nursing I class. That's including at least 5 who are auditing the course.