How many classes?

Im not in nursing school yet but I am taking as many pre and co requisites so that when I do start nursing class I am only taking 1 other class along with my nursing classes, just so that I can fulfill the full time status for financial aid..... however if p/t financial will be enough to cover the costs of tuition I might take a class or two over the summer so that all I take is the nursing classes by themselves..... they will be hard enough as it is.

We took two classes which consisted of two lecture days for each class, one lab day for each class, and one clinical day for one of the classes. I took two other classes the same semester so that I was full time for financial aid.

Good luck!!

Our first semester was seven classes (5 lecture, 2 clinical/lab type classes), but some were just broken up into pretty small components and some were more busy work than anything. And because the classes met once a week, there was a lot of flexibility with pacing things out, and if you had a busy night when you couldn't touch your books, no big deal.

Other friends in programs with a one class load tended to have heavy nightly demands that were hard to wiggle around. It really depends on the demands of the program, and even that load can be shouldered differently person to person.

Very exciting for you! Good luck!

I think ours consist of 2 separate classes, but our Med/Surg consists of 3 components: lecture, lab and clinicals. The other class if Fundamentals of Nursing. I think it's a total of 5 classes per week. At least, for the first 8 weeks of the program.

I have one 10 credit hour nursing class and I am also taking A&P 1 along with it.

I have one class as well. 6 credits. Excited and nervous.. =)

First semester was 5 classes, 18 credits.

I also have one class this semester, 6 credits. So excited! :)

Our semesters are broken down into 2 modules.

First semester, first module, I'll have 3 classes. First semester, second module, I'll only have 1 class. Although, I'll need to be CPR certified by, I think, second semester, so I may very well be taking CPR sometime during one of those two (though I'm not sure about the duration / time frame).

I won't get my schedule until the 28th though, but that's just a general outline of what I'm to expect first semester.

I start the my first semester the 26th, yay! Mine is broken up into 5 classes, 3 are lecture, one is clinical, and one is skills/lab. They total 9 hours. Mine is lecture on Tue, Skills on Wed, and clinical every other Thurs.

Classes are different with each program, if that isn't obvious by all the other posts! Some programs have one or two classes that encompass all areas of nursing, and others they have separate classes for each: fundamentals, med/surge, peds, etc.. Mine is a "concepts" program, which is one class or two classes that incorporate all aspects of nursing. We don't have separate classes for the different areas. I have a Lab on mondays, lecture on tuesdays, and clinical on wednesdays. I'm actually surprised at how LITTLE time we spend in class. 4 hours of lab, 4 hours of lecture, and 8 hours of clincial a week for the RN program. The LPN program does 8 hours of lab, lecture, and clinical a week. It's rather surprising to me.

We do have other non-nursing classes that we are required to take, like english and A&P and such. If we don't take them before entering the program we are required to take them as corequisites to the nursing class. You can take the classes early, but you can't take them late... if that makes any sense. A&P II is usually a second semester class in our program, I am taking it with first semester classes because I took A&P I with some of my pre-req's. If I didn't take A&P II with the first semester, I'd have to take it with second semester or I would otherwise not get to continue in the program.