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Class sizes

I was just wondering how big everyones class size in and the good and bad points you guys feel having those small class sizes, I haven't started my classes yet but I know we have 12 people for our skills class, 24 for our Pharmacology and Fundamentals class and 8 for our Clinical Practice class.

How is your classes separated?

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

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

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.

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

There are 42 students in my class.

Each clinical has about 6 students per 1 instructor.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Our clinicals have 8

Professional Development is about 15-20

And M/S II is 90 students

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

There are 25 in my Dosage Calc class and 64 of us together in Fundamentals. That number is actually down because a lot of students dropped at the last minute probably due to the economy. I think the normal number is around 74 or so.

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