How many clinical rotations do you have?

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Hi!! I'm just curious to hear how many clinical placements (and where) you have throughout your nursing education. i am in a four year BSN program.

Here's mine:

Sophomore Year:

Fall - Med/Surg

Spring - Med/Surg

Junior Year:

Fall - OB and Peds

Spring - Med/Surg

Senior Year:

Fall - Mental Health

Spring - Senior Capstone

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

I did an ADN program pre-licensure. It's been over a decade, but let's see....

Summer: Geriatric, OB, Corrections

Fall semester: Med surg, Psych, OR/periop/postop home visit

Spring: Med surg, Community (incl home health, private duty, teaching project for community service recipient with whom we'd had to meet with x4, chemical drpendency, and school nursing)

Summer: Med surg, Ambulatory (family practice and travel clinics)

Fall: Med surg, ICU, final internship

Med surg clinicals were at 3 different hospitals. Some floors were true med surg, some were more focused on ortho, one was a neuro/trauma/peds floor, some had more cardiac pts.

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Semester 1: Nursing Home

Semester 2: Med surg/telemetry

Semester 3: Psych, Critical Care (ICU/ED), Maternity

Semester 4: Med surg

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Specializes in Hospice, Palliative Care.

Harrisburg Area Community College (I was surprised to find out is ranked 8th in the nation for RN schools) uses a mini-semester foundation where there are two mini-semesters per semester (often times a two day to five day break that's not really a break as one's preparing for the next mini-semester to hit the ground running):

1st Semester - 1st mini-semester and second mini-semesters: Lab-based clinical to learn proper technique and procedures

2nd Semester - 1st mini-semester: long-term care rotation, 1 day community health rotation, and a wound care center observation

2nd Semester - 2nd mini-semester: hospital, medical surgical rotation including an OR observation

3rd Semester - 1st mini-semester: hospital oncology rotation; 1 day out patient cancer center rotation

hospital OBGYN rotation including NICU, couplet care, and potentially observing live-birth/c-section

3rd Semester - 2nd mini-semester hospital, advanced medical surgican rotation (in my case, I'm in a cardiac step down unit)

hospital mental health rotation including children and adults; 1 day outpatient center rotation

I'm in the 3rd semester (2nd mini-semester), so my experience with what the 4th semester is limited. I do know we have a pediatric rotation, a community health rotation, and more advanced medical surgical rotations (ER, ICU) coming up.

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

I was in a 2 year BSN program.

1st semester: med/surg and OB

2nd semester: med/surg and psych

3rd semester: med/surg or cardiac telemetry, critical care/ED/OR, peds

4th semester: community health/senior preceptorship

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Mine looks a little weird because my sophomore year started out on quarters, but next year (my junior year) the whole university is making the switch to semesters. This is a BSN program btw (the program itself is 3 years).

Sophomore:

Fall - Fundamentals (on med/surg floor)

Winter - med/surg

Spring - cardiac tele

Junior:

Fall - Gero and Peds

Spring - OB and Psych

Senior:

Fall - Critical Care (ICU)

Spring - Public Health and Preceptorship

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Specializes in Pedi.

I had 7.

1st semester Junior Year: Med Surg

2nd semester Junior Year: Med Surg II and Maternity

1st semester Senior Year: Pedi and Psych

2nd semester Senior Year: Community Health and Preceptorship

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4 semester ADN program at a community college:

1st semester: Long Term Care & Med Surg

2nd semester: OB and Med Surg (with Peds topics in lecture)

3rd semester: Psych and Med Surg

4th semester: med surg, community, leadership, home health

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2 year ADN program.

1st semester- Med Surg

2nd semester - Med Surg & Mental Health

3rd semester - OB, Peds, NICU

4th semester - Long term acute care

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1st semester (Fundamentals) - Rehab/LTC

2nd semester - OB, Med-Surg (renal/stroke floor)

3rd semester - Peds, Med-Surg (cardiac floor)

4th semester - Psych, Med-Surg (ICU, ED, cardiac/telemetry)

Also have a preceptorship in the ICU this semester.

I've observed wound care, NICU, dialysis, cardiac cath, OR, PACU, community psych, and radiology over the semesters.

This is a 2 year ADN program.

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2 year BSN:

1st semester: Med Surg and Community Health

2nd semester: Med Surg & Psych

3rd semester: Critical Care (specialty ICU's/trauma center ED) and OB/NICU

4th semester: Community Health, Peds, and role practicum (mine was in critical care)

This was all in addition to simulations and observational experiences in the OR, PACU, and Cath Lab

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5 semester ADN (I'm just finishing second semester):

1st semester: Med-surg

2nd semester: Med-surg with 2 days in the OR.

3rd semester: Med-surg and psych

4th semester: OB and Peds

5th semester: I'm not 100% sure, but we have two nursing courses. From what I've heard we'll spend some time in ICU and ER (and I'm not sure where else). We'll have 3 weeks of working 36 - 40 hrs with an RN. So I'm not sure what that all works out to.

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