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How many hours of clinical are you doing per week? Do you have the option to do clinicals during nontraditional hours like evenings or weekends?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I did two programs and did lots of hrs at night and on weekends.

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Specializes in Neuroscience, Cardiac Nursing.

I do about 16- 24hrs/week for my program. However, the hours will depends on your program (primary vs acute), how many hours you need to do a semester and your preceptor. If you are in a primary care NP program, your hours will be mainly in the day and Monday- Friday with some weekends depending if your site and preceptor has a weekend schedule. Nights and weekend hours seem to be more available for Acute care NP program students because the hopsital is always open.

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Thank you traumaRus and Sha-Sha. Very helpful.

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Specializes in Peds Med/Surg; Peds Skilled Nursing.

I'm doing primary and I did about 20 hrs a week In the spring and 1 day was during the day and the other day was a 12 night shift in the er. During the summer I'm doing about 8-10 hrs a week

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Specializes in Neuroscience, Cardiac Nursing.

Hi PedsNP2013, just a question. If you are doing primary, how are you able to do shifts in the ER? Is that not considered acute care? I know in my program (Adult), we can do rotations in urgent care centers, but not the ER.

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I snagged an ED pediatrician for my pediatric rotation. Lots of nights and weekends. It was awesome.

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Specializes in Peds Med/Surg; Peds Skilled Nursing.

They still let us do rotations in the Pediatric ED. This ED has different zones. Zone A is for traumas and more acute care stuff, zone B was strictly primary care issues/fast track and Zone C was a mix of primary care and acute care . The NPs work between Zones B and C only. My school and the facility had no issues with primary care NP students doing rotations there. I would say 85% of the patients i saw had primary care issues. This was my first clinical rotation and I learned a lot.

I guess it depends on the make up of the the ED and if the facility is okay with letting Primary care students to rotations there.

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Specializes in Peds Med/Surg; Peds Skilled Nursing.

They still let us do rotations in the Pediatric ED. This ED has different zones. Zone A is for traumas and more acute care stuff, zone B was strictly primary care issues/fast track and Zone C was a mix of primary care and acute care . The NPs work between Zones B and C only. My school and the facility had no issues with primary care NP students doing rotations there. I would say 85% of the patients i saw had primary care issues. This was my first clinical rotation and I learned a lot.

I guess it depends on the make up of the the ED and if the facility is okay with letting Primary care students to rotations there.

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