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Did your program require you to take the CNA course prior to applying? We had to already have that out of the way, there were four clinical days with that. But we only spend one 8 hour day at the nursing home for the LPN program 1st semester. (I don't know if any of the second and final semester clinical hours are at the nursing home. The final semester is ALL clinical, no other classes).
No, we weren't required to be CNAs prior to the program, but most of us were, so it was an easy block. If your final semester is all clinicals, it makes sense now as to why there are only 4 days in the beginning. I liked having a little bit of class and a little bit of clinicals so I could incorporate what we were learning in class in the clinical setting.
We go 2 days a week the first semester and three days a week the second semester! How can you only go 4 total??!!
Not four total, four for first semester. Four for second semester. And then the bulk I found out today are in the last semester. Something like every day for three weeks straight. Plus there are a bunch of simulated clinical days mixed in there too.
Four for second semester. And then the bulk I found out today are in the last semester. Something like every day for three weeks straight.
still doesn't sound like much.
in CA, it is required that LVN programs include 957 hrs of clinical. now whether or not that means clinical in class or clinical in hospitals, is a good question to pose to the school folks.
busia, what school are you attending?
Four for second semester. And then the bulk I found out today are in the last semester. Something like every day for three weeks straight.still doesn't sound like much.
in CA, it is required that lvn programs include 957 hrs of clinical. now whether or not that means clinical in class or clinical in hospitals, is a good question to pose to the school folks.
busia, what school are you attending?
MN State College-Southeast Technical
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How many days of actual clinicals do you have a semester? I was shocked to find out that we only have FOUR! There are some that we do in lab with the SimMan, but only four times do we actually go to a workplace with real patients, one day at each of four sites. Is this common?