Got Accepted :)

♑ Capricorn ♑ · Jan 2, 2012

Now a new question, how often do you have clinicals? Are they scheduled for days when you would regularly have classes ? I know our "book work" will be finished around March 1 and clinicals will begin.

I think every nursing school is different as far as the scheduled clinical days and hours are concerned. This will be something you'll need to ask your school about. But, to just give you an example of what my school does may help you. At my school, during the first semester, we go to school full-time only Monday-Friday from about 8-4:30 pm. Three of the days are lecture days spent in classroom, one day will be spent in lab, and one day spent in clinicals. That is just for the Fundamentals or Intro to Nursing class. Not sure how helpful this is since every school is different, but I guess it could give you an idea of what my first semester will be like. When I get to Med-Surg I, the semester after Fundamentals of Nursing, I will have school Mon.-Fri. 8-4:30 pm again. But, instead of a lab day I'll have an extra clinical day. So, 3 lecture days and 2 clinical days for Med-Surg I.

NCRNMDM, ASN, RN · Jan 2, 2012

Every nursing school is different in the way it schedules clinicals, and the clinical schedule changes from semester to semester. First semester I had a 7A-7P clinical every Saturday. This semester I have a 6p-midnight clinical on Monday and Wednesday. We generally have at least twelve hours of clinical a week, sometimes more. Sometimes you have three four hour days, two six hour days, or one twelve hour day. Sometimes we work night shift, sometimes day shift, and somtimes we rotate and do days one day and nights the next. At my program, the clinical instructor gets to pick the days and times of clinical, so it's really up to the preference of who is instructing you. Our instructor this time happens to enjoy nights and doesn't want to be stuck at the hospital for tweleve straight hours.