First Semester ADN Students-Clinicals

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Everyone get their fall schedule yet? I am curious to know about your clinicals. My schedule says that they start October 20th and go through December 16th on Thursdays and Fridays. It doesnt list times, but I am sure that will all depend on the facilities.

This seems like a lot of clinical time! it will be a total of 17 days of clinicals (Thanksgiving is on one of the Thur) Is this normal?

What do you think? What does your clinical schedule look like this semester?

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That sounds like my schedule for my first quarter, which was one year ago. Our hours were approximately 7am to 1pm including about an hour post conference. I doubt you will have it the day after Thanksgiving also.

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This is my first semester and I have clinicals every Wednesday from 7am till 1:30pm. Good luck!

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I just had my orientation today and found out mid October I will be having clinicals every Thursday from 7a-5p.

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For fall semester (16 weeks), clinical starts the 2nd week of school and ends one week before semester is over, (one day a week from 7am to 3:30pm) so we only have about 14 days of clinical. My clinical day is Wednesday. I have lecture on Tuesdays 1pm-4pm and lab on Thursdays 9am-12pm. I like my schedule so I can have Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to study and do all my assignments.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Most states mandate a set minimum number of clinical hours that must be included in any approved nursing education program.

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This isn't my first semester, because we go by quarters, but I start clinical in my 4th qtr (september) and we go Thursday eve to do our assessments, get our pt, etc..then go friday from 8a-5p!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

We will have 22 clinical days first semester, starting 9/27

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Telemetry.

I'll be starting my 1st semester and I have clinicals on Wednesdays, 7:30 AM - 12 PM. Not too bad. But as I get into the second, third and fourth semesters, they'll be longer shifts and I think on weekends too.

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I am in my 3rd semester...I'm in a part time program though...Our clinical schedule for the Fall is 15 clinical days. 3 of those days are in the simulation Lab at our school, 2 of those are Simulation Modules, and the other 10 are in the hospital from 4pm to 10pm. As you go along I believe each semester you have to put in more clinical hours to meet the requirements.

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