Clinical Placement -----Is This Possible

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is it possible if you go to a school with 2 campuses to take the clinical part at one campus and then take the rest of the in class courses at the other campus? Has anyone done this or heard of this?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

I think that's a question that only the actual school can answer.

But for the most part, the clinical portion is not actually on campus - it's in hospitals and other facilities.

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Specializes in Surgery, Tele, OB, Peds,ED-True Float RN.

I did this, sort of...

Went to the University campus for my academic classes like Biochem, Microbiology, english, psych etc. I was at the University's Center for Nursing Studies (on the other side of town) for my nursing classes and THEN I was at the hospitals for my clinicals. It was busy and for my first year of school I took the bus. After that I got a car because it was a little hectic running all over town. But definitely do-able!

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Specializes in Gyn/STD clinic tech.

it was said before.. our clinicals are in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, rehab centers, etc...

they were not actually on campus, the lecture and education is though :)

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Specializes in Pulmonary, MICU.

I think what the OP means is, should a school have a campus in various areas (my school had two campuses about 1.5 hours apart from each other, totally different metro areas) is it possible to do class at one and clinicals at another (location, not school). The problems with this is that clinicals and classes occur simultaneously. You may have class on M-W and clinicals on Th/Fri or some variation of that. So it's not like you could conveniently make that happen because of commuting. The other problem you will encounter is student:teacher ratios between campuses. S:T ratios are what keep nursing school admissions low, because the heart of the nursing shortage is a nursing school instructor shortage. So it's not likely the other campus would have the faculty to do such a switch. But it never hurts to ask! Talk to your school, because it's possible. Not very plausible, though.

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thanks to everyone who answered :) and also thanks to Be Moore you understood my question perfectly and gave good advice !!

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