How many hours a day or a week for accelerated bsn?thanks!

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hi, I would like to know how many hours /day or week it takes you for an accelerated bsn or second degree? thanks so much!

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This is going to vary so much by program.

My program was mostly 2 days of class 8-5 plus 3 days of clinical (6.5 hr days) PLUS however long you need for studying, review sessions, extra practice in the labs. First and last quarter we had more time in class and less time in clinical but it still worked out to 5 solid days a week.

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Specializes in Hospice.

Most of our classes were online , we had daily assignments and i spent 5 to 8 hours a day studying, but we also had group discussions as well as meetings where we would meet to do case studies (and some classes had research papers that would bump that time up as well as the final research project that we worked on throughout the year) During clinicals we still took classes as well as did 30 to 40 hours a week at the hospitals. (doing whatever schedule our preceptor had , many of us had overnight shifts at times during our clincals) there is no guarantee even within the same program what your commitment will be.

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Thanks so much for responding my add!... sounds like there is no way you can have a job during this time or is too hard yo have even a PT. But does it really take 1 year or 2 years to complete it,as many say?......

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Specializes in Family Practice, Urgent Care, Cardiac Ca.

I had a part-time job during my program, but not until the first semester was up and I knew what I was in for...

Accelerated programs are breakneck paced and full-on. My life was 90% school for 18 months (as opposed to the 65% school my first undergraduate degree demanded).

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Specializes in Hospice.

My program was 12 months... But others are 15 or 18 months.... i have a spouse and kids .... the single people worked prn once in a while but there was no way the rest of us could have done it.

It is only a year but we had to have pre-reqs done and that took a year before i actually was ready to apply to the program...and then getting in the program was very competitive as well. I have ZERO reqrets. I came out well prepared.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

My program is 3 years (fast track) it is still 120 credits. We have a summer semester included.

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I'm in an accelerated BSN program that's 16 months long (1 more month to go now, yay!) Anyway, I usually had class 2-3 days a week for 4-8 hours, and 12-hr clinicals twice a week. I started off the program determined to keep my part-time waitressing job, but had to quit after 3 months of school because I just didn't have time! All my free time was spent on homework and careplans and studying, and if I occasionally had spare time, I wanted to use it for relaxing and stress relief, not work! It's definitely intense, but so worth it! I know a few girls in my class who maintained jobs, but had jobs where they could do hw while they worked. Good luck!

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Specializes in Telehealth, Hospice and Palliative Care.

All day, every day, all week. I lived away from home M-F for my post-bacc and I thought I could get everything done during the week, then spend homework-free weekends with my family. I was deluded.

That said, I wouldn't do it any other way:)

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Most accelerated programs will say that you will spend 40-65 hours a week (depending on if it's 11, 12, 16 months) on class/clinicals and the like. Studying, homework, etc is not included in that amount.

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I worked VERY part time during my first quarter in the program and then not for the rest of it. It probably wouldn't have been IMPOSSIBLE, but I imagine my grades would have suffered, for sure.

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