Clinical Hours

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I was wondering how many hours various programs have in clinicals. I feel like I haven't had enough hours. Only 6 weeks of Med-Surg in the entire program One week includes 2 days of 7 hours hands on with patients and 1 hour post confrence. Peds was only 4 DAYS. Do other programs get more hours than I do?

Nursing process 1 + 2 / 2 days w/ total 16 hours

GIGU is 2/ 12 hour shifts(summer class = 6 weeks

Pediatrics 12 hour shift once a week

and the same for Pediactrics, OB, Psych, Ortho/neuro, Cardio/Resp, trens 1, and trends 2

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You guys get it easy-try 4 12 hour shifts this week, 3 12 hour shifts next week, 5 12 hour shifts the week after-repeat x3. Talk about tired!

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I'm not entirely sure of the breakdown, but we get 4 blocks of 9 week sessions that are 40 hours per week. There are other blocks of time as well...but since I am not yet a student, I cant tell you much more!

Maybe you could ask for extra hours?

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One thing i really like about my program is that we get an 'intersession' after all our courses are done. For years 2 and 3, we have classes from Sept til April, and then May is full time clinical. I think (not sure, i'm not there yet ... hehe) we get paired up w/ an RN who works in an area of our choice. Year 4 last sem is a whole semester of clinical ... Jan to April. Does everyone have that? (I'm in the BScN program in Ontario)

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my clinical hours are

1st 90

2nd 180

3rd 120

4th 300

5th 240

total 930 (if I added correctly)

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