Clinicals at your school

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Second semester here. I'm curious what your school's rotation is like.

Mine is:

first 8 weeks/2nd 8 weeks

Semester 1: Nothing/Med surg

Semester 2: Psych/Mother Baby

Semester 3: Peds/ Renal

Semester 4: Cardiac/Ortho-Nueuro

Our CC seems to be doing only one type clinical per semester for first year students. This semester we are on a Ortho floor and I have had 4 patients so far, the last 2 left 2 hrs after we started on the floor so I learned little except discharge planning from them. Next semester we will be doing labor and delivery the whole time I believe. That is an area of interest for me so it should be fun. My teacher told me she's giving me a fresh surgery patient next week to make up for the last 2! lol!

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Specializes in AGNP.

I am in an accelerated associates program. It is pretty much the same sequence as the traditional program except some of our rotations are shorter and we don't get any breaks.

6 weeks-Fundamentals I (LTC)

6 weeks-Fundamentals II (Med-surg)

7 weeks-Acute Care (Med-surg)

6 weeks-Maternity

7 weeks-Peds

7 weeks-Mental Health & Leadership

8 weeks-Advanced Chronic

8 weeks-Advanced Acute

This is my last week of peds and then only 3 more rotations to go!! Yay!

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First semester - Long Term Care for 14 days. [soooo boring]

Second semester - OB/PEDs for 8 days, Med-Surg for 6 days.

Third semester - Med-Surg for 6 days, Community for 3 days, and Psych for 4 days but longer shifts.

Fourth semester - Preceptorship and Med-Surg for 14 days.

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We're on quarters, not semesters. It's a 7 qtr program.

Freshmen:

1st - 6 weeks of clinical at a LTC facility.

2nd - med/surg and Pharm

3rd - med/surg

4th - OB

Senior:

- you are in a lottery and you choose which way you want to rotate through the last 3 quarters.

The choices are Peds, Psych and Cardiac.

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I'm in an accelerated 15 month BSN. Our clinicals are as follows:

Semester 1: 3 days of LTC, 11 days at hospital in med/surg, stepdown or rehab units

Semester 2: 7 weeks in acute psych

7 weeks in maternity

14 weeks in adult health (basically med/surg 2)

Semester 3 (summer): 8 weeks in adult/elder

8 weeks in child/family

Semester 4: 14 weeks in community

14 weeks in leadership (capstone)

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Nursing I Geriatrics

Nursing II Rehab & Med Surg & two days in surgery

Nursing III Peds, Psy, & Maternity

Nursing IV Med Surg & Telemetry

Talk about going nuts! Word is is that they are planning on switching these around. Another change that has happened is that for anyone applying for any of the medical programs you have to have gotten an B+ or better in A & P I & II or they will not accept you! :down:

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Specializes in ICU, Med/Surg, Tele.

Soph Semester 2: LTC

Junior Semester 1: med/surg and maternity

Junior Semester 2: med/surg and pedi

Senior Semester 1: psych and community

Senior Semester 2: senior practicum

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Specializes in SICU, MICU, CICU, NeuroICU.

1st: Fundamentals/Med/Surg

2nd: Med/Surg

3rd and 4th: Med/Surg or OB/Peds & Psych

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