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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

On the school? What I mean is, do most schools have, for instance, Med/Surg for semester 1, OB for semester 2, Psych for semester 3, etc? Or is every school different?

I'm wondering because I REALLY want to get an externship in OB/L&D, but externships are offered after 2nd semester, and I don't even know if I will have gone through that area by then, which makes me doubt they would put an extern in the department who hasn't even had any practical training yet in the area.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

On the school? What I mean is, do most schools have, for instance, Med/Surg for semester 1, OB for semester 2, Psych for semester 3, etc? Or is every school different?

I'm wondering because I REALLY want to get an externship in OB/L&D, but externships are offered after 2nd semester, and I don't even know if I will have gone through that area by then, which makes me doubt they would put an extern in the department who hasn't even had any practical training yet in the area.

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

I think some of it must vary... ours started with a rural/cultural class that wasn't hospital-based, the real clinicals start with med-surg, LTC and psych in 2nd semester. This summer half will take OB/Peds and half will take Crisis (which I guess is ICU, ER, ???- our class descriptions are always in code). They will take whichever of those two they didn't take in the Fall, plus some Challenging and Shaping class, which again is in code. Then we have Community nursing and a practice clinical elective the last semester. They have changed some of it for the new class entering in the Fall.

I would just ask when your school does OB! Best wishes :)

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

I think some of it must vary... ours started with a rural/cultural class that wasn't hospital-based, the real clinicals start with med-surg, LTC and psych in 2nd semester. This summer half will take OB/Peds and half will take Crisis (which I guess is ICU, ER, ???- our class descriptions are always in code). They will take whichever of those two they didn't take in the Fall, plus some Challenging and Shaping class, which again is in code. Then we have Community nursing and a practice clinical elective the last semester. They have changed some of it for the new class entering in the Fall.

I would just ask when your school does OB! Best wishes :)

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Specializes in Going to Peds!.

I don't know. I reckon it depends on the school. My school has this schedule:

  • 1st Semester - Fundamentals (which I assume clinicals for that wuld be in a general medical ward)
  • 2nd Semester - Adult Health (general medical ward, again) Psych (we all know where that will be) and Geriatrics (nursing home)
  • 3rd Semester - Peds (PICU maybe) and Psych II
  • 4th Semester - Adult Health II (medical wards), Maternal/NB (OB/LD/Nursery wards)
  • 5th Semester - Adult Health III (medical wards again I suppose - maybe they progress us through the acuity levels - I=not that sick, II=critical, III=ICU patients?)

So in our school, we do not do OB/L&D until the 4th semester.

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Specializes in Going to Peds!.

I don't know. I reckon it depends on the school. My school has this schedule:

  • 1st Semester - Fundamentals (which I assume clinicals for that wuld be in a general medical ward)
  • 2nd Semester - Adult Health (general medical ward, again) Psych (we all know where that will be) and Geriatrics (nursing home)
  • 3rd Semester - Peds (PICU maybe) and Psych II
  • 4th Semester - Adult Health II (medical wards), Maternal/NB (OB/LD/Nursery wards)
  • 5th Semester - Adult Health III (medical wards again I suppose - maybe they progress us through the acuity levels - I=not that sick, II=critical, III=ICU patients?)

So in our school, we do not do OB/L&D until the 4th semester.

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1st Semester: Med/Surg and Nursing homes

2nd Semester: OB and Peds

3rd Semester: Nephrology (we have a HUGE DM and ESRD population in my area) and psych nursing.

4th Semester: ICU/Critical Care and Preceptorship (working side by side with an RN in a chosen area of emphasis)

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1st Semester: Med/Surg and Nursing homes

2nd Semester: OB and Peds

3rd Semester: Nephrology (we have a HUGE DM and ESRD population in my area) and psych nursing.

4th Semester: ICU/Critical Care and Preceptorship (working side by side with an RN in a chosen area of emphasis)

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Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

They were different for all the schools I applied to. Even the sister community colleges in our state said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to transfer from one college to another while in the nursing program, because they all do their rotations differently.

All the colleges I looked at though did OB as one of their last rotations, so like the 3rd or 4th semester. None were doing it first year.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

They were different for all the schools I applied to. Even the sister community colleges in our state said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to transfer from one college to another while in the nursing program, because they all do their rotations differently.

All the colleges I looked at though did OB as one of their last rotations, so like the 3rd or 4th semester. None were doing it first year.

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Specializes in LTC.

I - Foundations (general med)

II - Med/Surg I & II

III - ICU / ER

IV - OB/Pedi

V - Psych/Management

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Specializes in LTC.

I - Foundations (general med)

II - Med/Surg I & II

III - ICU / ER

IV - OB/Pedi

V - Psych/Management

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