Is this a lot of clinical hours?

[Ambreree]

Is 700-1000 a lot of clinical hours?

[nlitened]

That sounds about right

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

My total internship hours while in Paramedic school ran around 640 hours. My nursing school's clinical hours ran approximately 1300 hours, however they counted lab time and actual clinical time as "clinical" hours that would be considered "internship." My Sports Medicine internship hours from when I first started doing Sports Med as a student athletic trainer was well over 2,000 hours because I did about 700 hours at one college and then another 1500 at another when I was in a formal university ATC program leading to a Bachelor's Degree in that field. Consider that the amount of "internship" time I spent was effectively the minimum needed to get a beginner into the workforce.

So, 1,000 hours isn't necessarily a lot. It's only a lot if your program is capable of teaching the required clinical material in less time and they choose not to. It also helps if the students are capable of learning the required clinical material in a shorter period of time as well. You'll certainly go well past that once you're working and learning on your own.

[cracklingkraken, ASN, RN]

Mine only had around 530 hrs. I wish we had more clinical time...

[Cook26]

My anesthesia program has about 4000 clinical hours, so it's all relative depending on what you are talking about. You weren't specific as to what type of program.

[Ambreree]

My anesthesia program has about 4000 clinical hours, so it's all relative depending on what you are talking about. You weren't specific as to what type of program.

It's a bsn program.

[KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN]

About right for BSN. It depends on what you are doing, though. Big difference between going to SNFs with a visiting RN and learning complicated wound care and real care plans and tidying kitchenertes and entertaining some spry, demented and very aggressive LOL for 8 hours straight.

[T-Bird78]

My LPN program had about 750 clinical hours.