How long are you clinical days?

vashtee, RN · Oct 29, 2008

We had 2 sixes in first and second semesters (plus prep time).

Third and fourth semesters are twelves, but in reality, in the 4th semester, we are working more like 1 fifteen hour day because of prep time.

Lindie, RN · Oct 29, 2008

We go every other Saturday and Sunday from 6:45 AM-3:30 PM with a 30 min. post-conference on Sunday. We get an hour for lunch, but that varies by where we are assigned. As for picking patients, ours are assigned Friday afternoon by our clinical instructor. If the patient has been discharged by the time we get there on Saturday morning, we get to choose the patient ourselves.

mantosee · Feb 26, 2009

8 hours 2 days a week. we get our assignments and do some paperwork and planning when we first arrive then hit the floor.

Hi, which semester does the clinicals actually start? Does Chamberlain arrange clinicals for you and if so in which hospitals, and if not do you get it arranged yourself?

xtina8229 · Feb 26, 2009

Right now my clinicals are Fri's and Sat's from 3pm to 10pm. I'm in a Nursing Evening program so my clinicals are at night as well!!!

jackson145 · Feb 26, 2009

I'm in my last semester. We have 1 12-hr day, 7a-7p, just like the shift of the floor we are on.

We don't go in ahead of time & do any prep work, though. We just show up & hit the floor running!

Oh, also, we don't get to pick a patient. The instructor just assigns each student 1 or 2 or 3. Depends on what floor you're on.

lillyofthevalley · Feb 26, 2009

My clinical day is a 12 hour shift. Its hard to be on your feet for that long, but at least I only go once a week.

fromthedyt · Feb 26, 2009

We go 7 - 330 2 days a week this rotation and then next rotation it is 830 - 330

GeneralJinjur · Feb 26, 2009

9 hours once/week in first semester and then we move to 12 hour shifts.

Dianacabana · Feb 27, 2009

I'm in Med-Surg I (2nd semester of 4 semester program). I have 2 days per week on the unit for 8 hours each. Busy! 1 or 2 pts each day but it depends on their complexity.

coolpeach · Feb 27, 2009

I am in second semester. We go on Sunday mornings during our own time to pick out our two patients. We just ask the head nurse who they feel will still be there the next day, and choose who we want for those. Most of us spend from Sunday morning until Monday morning doing our careplans, researching ALL of the drugs for both patients, and ALL of the labs for both patients. In addition, we must do a patho report on each diagnosis, and any surgeries they are having. Clinical is monday morning from 6:45 am until 7pm. We have post conference from 5pm- 7pm. We get are there for 12 hrs, and we get one 30 minute lunch, and one 15 minute morning break. By the time I get home on Monday nights I have usually been awake for 40 hours.

shrimpchips, LPN · Feb 27, 2009

Ours are currently 9 hours once/week, but next semester they range 12-14 hours, dependning on the rotation, either 12-14 hours/once a week or 6-7 hours split over 2 days.

lemonaidangel · Feb 27, 2009

In our last semester, my leadership clinical goes from 2-11 PM, 2 days per week. We get assigned our patients (anywhere from 3-6 people, depending on census) and we have pre-ward conference for 45 minutes, and then we can take a quick peak at our charts for 15 minutes before having to get report. After report we get set loose on the floor. Thank God we only had to do one care plan this semester, but in previous semesters we would be doing them over the weekends based on what we acquired during our assessments.