How many hours of labs and clinicals do you have a week?

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I have a choice between two programs. One offers 2 hors of lecture, 3 hours lab, and 8 hours clinical for a 1st semister student. More hours are offered as the student progresses in the program.

The other is 2 hours (2 days) of lecture and 8 hours (2 days ) of lab/clinical.

I'm still trying to decide which one to attend.

Thanks,

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Specializes in General adult inpatient psychiatry.
I have a choice between two programs. One offers 2 hors of lecture, 3 hours lab, and 8 hours clinical for a 1st semister student. More hours are offered as the student progresses in the program.

The other is 2 hours (2 days) of lecture and 8 hours (2 days ) of lab/clinical.

I'm still trying to decide which one to attend.

Thanks,

I think it sounds like you're talking credit hours, which doesn't mean much for me. My first semester, I had 16 credit hours of nursing classes. Lab and clinicals were both part of my 4 credit Fundamentals of Nursing class. I was in lab for about two hours every week during first semester doing skills check-offs but that was the only semester with actual "lab" time. I was in clinicals once a week for 8 hours/day over 14 weeks. I was in lecture for about about 20 hours a week. I don't think amount of time in class should determine which school you go to. I think there are standards set that your school must uphold related to clinical and lab time. Tell us more about each school and program.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.

We have 16 hours per week of clinicals though about 4-6 times throughout the semester we use one of those days for skills labs or sim labs. The remainder are on the floor caring for patients.

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this week i have 10 hours of lab, 2 hours of lecture and 2 tests!! crazy crazy week!

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we have 16 hours clinicals, 5hrs skills lab, 8hours lecture, 2hours leclab

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13 units total.

9 hours of lecture/week.

18 hours of clinicals/week and 22 hours/week five times.

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1-4th semester: 9 hours of classes, 12 hours of clinicals

5th semester: 6 hours of classes, clinicals vary b/c youre doing precepting (120 hours over 1/2 the semester) and community health clinicals over the other 1/2 of the semester

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I only have 8 credit hours for my first semister. 4 hours of lecture in class and 16 hours of lab/clinical. Thanks everyone.

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Specializes in Pediatric ED.

For the summer I have 16 lecture hours, 4-5 lab hours, and 5 clinical hours a week. Death, in other words.

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Mine is pretty much the same as everyone else. 16 hrs of clinicals, 12 hrs of lab time. I have mental health next fall semester and it will be one day 12 hr days 1x weekly for 5 weeks.

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Specializes in ER.

5 hrs lecture

16 hr clinical

1.5 lab

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For this semester (and this is my first semester), we have 3 hours of lecture, 6 1/2 hours of clinical and 2 hours of lab time.

...and this makes it sound like my school is totally slacking off compared to the rest of you! everything is once/week. the lecture is on monday, the clinical is on tuesday morning and the LRC (lab) is on thursday.

this is just for one class, too, and it's 5 credit hours. The other nursing class is only 2 credit hours and it's a 2 hour lecture once/week.

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