Help! A typical week in nursing school

itsmyturn · Feb 5, 2009

Our typical day was 8 hrs of school or clinical Mon-Fri and I got out at 2:30. I would go home, start studying at 5:00 and usually did not get done until 10-11 pm. My weekends left as soon as I hit the 2nd month. I ended up giving up my job to get school out of the way...it was hard and I still feel as if I should be studying or doing something for school! I just graduated last year. Those hours gave me high A's which I wanted in order to become a National Honor student. A lot of my friends took 16hr weekend shifts in order to work. Good luck, it's rough but you will do it...tell yourself, " I want this, I need this and I am gonna get it" and you will see graduation day! :mad:

Maikafer-RN · Feb 6, 2009

The previous reply seems like an extreme case.

I just graduated in December from CSULB and generally school took 3 of days. One of those days would be lecture on campus from 8 or 9 until 3 or 6 (depending on the semester) and the other two days were clinical days (usually had to be at the hospital at 630 and left at 330ish).

Of course the day before the hospital days we had to "preplan" which meant going to the hospital and picking our patients and then writing up a careplan for our clinical day. However, some classes we didn't preplan (women's, psych, community health) and usually our last clinical day of the semester our instructors let us see what it was like to not preplan and just show up on the floor and start our day.

I personally didn't think the schedule was overwhelming. Yeah there were weeks when I felt like the work never ended but generally it wasn't too bad.

I worked the first semester with no problems but had to quit because I was in the trimester program which meant I did a whole semester over the summer (that was 5 days a week).

hope this helps!