Published Aug 12, 2009
vmcrebecca
1 Post
Does anyone have any input on what to expect as far as our schedules for the 1st semester? They told us it would vary the 1st seven weeks, but I am trying to figure out what that means on average...number of days and length of days, and when it gets more regular. THanks.
MissB08
69 Posts
Well i can say its very erratic!!! Everything changes quite often and sometimes we had school on days that previously were not on the schedule. Last semester i had skills lab Monday morning for about six weeks and then it changed to Friday after lecture. I had clinical on Thursday 6.30-6.00 pm. We had a wound care seminar sometime during the week and there was an exam that was on a different day than it had been scheduled. The thing is you will be in school maybe three days in a week but its different for everyone. If you have a two day clinical then you might be in school 4 out of 5 days. It all depends. I would advice you to wait and see what your schedule is and then decide what to do. I had so many problems last semester with my job scheduling that i had to switch to weekends. Am sure some people had better schedules but i wasn't one of them. It all depends.
mbcatac7
112 Posts
I am going into 3rd semester. The schedule when I was in 1st was usually 2 days of 1/2 days for Skills Lab. Then around the 3rd week we started our hospital clinical and this was 1 day a week..then down to 1 day that was skills lab. After the 1st 8weeks everything calmed down. But every semester so far the first 8weeks are the craziest.
Billie