Clinical hours

[publichealthgir]

I'm curious to know what some of your clinical hours have been like? Is that for a BSN program or ABSN? How long were your shifts? How often were they per week (e.g. once per week)? When you aren't doing a clinical, what is your schedule like? I know no school is the same but I'd like to visualize what I might be facing.

Sorry for all the questions, I'm super excited about going to nursing school!

[Jcgirl]

My clinicals for Med Surg are Tuesdays 0700-1900, for the next 9 weeks. I attend theory Mondays 0900-1230, and I have Psych 0900-1230 Fridays. I work 24 hours a week, midnight shifts, every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. I'm also married, I have a 9 year old, and a 2 year old. :)

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

My program was a primary BSN program in a university. It was a long time ago, but I didn't have to walk uphill in the snow barefoot each way :).

I had clinical Tues, Weds, Thurs from 0645 to 1400 (or so), with a 45 minute postconference every day, and sometimes a 1 or 2-hour lecture back on campus afterwards. I had classes from 0800-1500 or 1000-1600 Mon, Weds, Fri, in the 2-3-4 years, except one semester I went to 2200 (!) one day a week. Labs (anatomy, physiology, micro, chemistry) took up a lot of time, but I took 2 of my 3 semesters of chem my freshman year with the psych, anthro, and English distribution reqs, early childhood G&S and gym (yep, required element).

Looking at that schedule now makes my hair curl. But I was a lot younger then. :)

[bankiegrace]

I am in my first semester of nursing school, and we typically have clinical x1 per week. We have rotating clinicals this semester (Med Surg, Psych and Pedi). Monday, Tuesday and Thursday we are in class all day (typically from about 8am to 4pm, sometimes later) and clinical is either all day on Wednesday or Friday. We have the occasional week where we do not have clinical, and also the occasional week where we have two clinicals in one week. We are technically taking 21 hours this semester. I am in an accelerated program so I expect traditional programs are a little different.

[Sizzline]

I'm in a night ADN program, first semester. I have lab one night (5pm-8pm), lecture one night (5pm-9pm), and one night of clinical (4:30pm-10pm).

[publichealthgir]

Interesting to see the variation in y'alls schedules. I'm applying to an ABSN program and I have a 2 year old son. I just want to see if it's doable. I was thinking I would have to do multiple 12 hour shifts throughout the week!