Hospital Clinicals

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In my Nursing program, apparently hospital clinical's start in November (just 3 months after the program starts!!!!) I feel like that's very, very soon to be starting clinical's.. In November I'll still be doing Fundamentals! (Nursing 1101).

When does everyone else's program start doing clinical's??

Just curious to see how it varies among different programs. Thanks for all responses! :)

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Specializes in Hospice.

Our classes begin Aug 26th and from what I have heard we start clincals about six weeks in.

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We also started 6 weeks after the beginning of the semester. For the first weeks we learned skills like vitals, med administration, injections.

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I'm wondering how on earth it could be that soon. Lol

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First semester was Fundamentals in Nursing. Clinical rotations falls on Tuesdays and Wednesday which started around 3 weeks after school starts in a nursing home setting.

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We started earlier than that... our school started third week of august and we were in the care center by the end of September. For the whole first semester we basically focused on the assessment and careplans. It wasn't until second semester that we really started doing direct patient care.

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My classes start August 28. The first 7 weeks we do labs only. The next 7 weeks is clinical, so October is when we start actually going out to different sites.

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Specializes in Med/surg, Onc.

I started just 3 weeks after the first semester but it was in a LTC facility first semester. Semester 2 starts you out the first or second week in your hospital clinical, Semester 3 has a 4 week lag time while you learn additional skills (including IV starts) in the lab, then you go to the hospital. Semester 4 (my last one!) starts in a couple weeks and we'll be in the hospital right away.

First semester you'll spend time doing vitals, learning how to do a good head to toe exam and getting comfortable with a lot of the basics, later you'll likely pass meds too. It goes quick and it's busy right away but you can do it!

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I've thought this whole time that I was starting clincals 2nd semester....Boy, was I wrong.

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First clinicals are all about vitals, adl, and assessment... After you have pharmacology and pass off on med pass then you start adding meds, injections,IV starts and piggybacks...after you do those skills, you get 1 patient and gradually as the program goes you add the number of patients until you are taking a full load...

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I've thought this whole time that I was starting clincals 2nd semester....Boy, was I wrong.

You will discover, in nursing school, you will hit the ground running and not look back until you are done. There are many things that you will think "NO WAY I am ready to do that", and then you do and it is awesome!

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A lot of nursing you learn actually doing it. It'll be good for your classes to correlate what you are doing at clinical with what you are learning!

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