Is there a typical rotation that's done for each semester or does it depend...

[klone]

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.

[LauraLou]

Clinicals

1- General Med/Surg

2- OB & Peds

3- Advanced Med/Surg & Psych

4- ICU/Critical Care & Management

[LauraLou]

Clinicals

1- General Med/Surg

2- OB & Peds

3- Advanced Med/Surg & Psych

4- ICU/Critical Care & Management

[icesk8ie]

1st semester: LTC and Med-Surg

2nd semester: Med-Surg

3rd semester: Psych/med-surg push and OB

4th semester: ICU/Peds and Geriatrics/Preceptorship

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Mine:

I: Primary Care/OB

II: Med Surg/Psych or Peds

III: Med Surg II /Psych or Peds

IV: Preceptorship (I think - this is what I've been told by a fellow student), and leadership

[tmarie75]

In my school it's:

1st semester: Fundamentals

2nd semester: Med/Surg I

3rd semester: Peds/OB

4th semester: Psych/Community Health

5th semester: Med/Surg II

[perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN]

In my school clinicals start second semester sophomore year, so that is Semester 1 on this list:

1: Fundamentals- nursing home and local small hospital

2: Psych, and Maternity/OB

3: Adult and Pediatric I- a long-term respiratory care center, a children's hospital and an adult med-surg unit

4: Adult and Peds II- a VA hospital and local school nurses, and

Community Health I- not sure of the setting

5: Community Health II- again, not sure of the setting, and

Synthesis- our preceptorship class, in a setting of our choosing

so... to the OP... like everyone is saying, I guess it basically depends on your school! :) good luck with your schooling!

[llg, PhD, RN]

Klone: I would talk with the people who run the externship program. Tell them of your great interest and ask if it might be possible for you to get the externship you want in light of your school's curriculum. You are making an assumption about them requiring clinical experience there before they would hire you. That might not be true. Also, by meeting with them and expressing your great interest, you will probably boost your chances of being selected.

I run the externship program at my hospital -- a children's hospital. Many of our externs have not yet had their peds rotation. We know that many of our local schools don't teach peds until the senior year, so we have taken that into consideration when planning our program. Perhaps the hospital you are interested in has done the same thing. Give them a chance.

Good luck,

llg

[wonderbee, BSN, RN]

1st Semester: Med Surg I

2nd Semester: OB and Med Surg II

3rd Semester: Peds and Med Surg III

4th Semester: Psych; Critical Care and Preceptorship

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

When I was in school, we had set clinicals for each year but it varied when you took them throught the year. Sophomore year everybody took fundamentals together and we all went to various hopsitals and units to work on our basics - vitals, beds, baths, meds, etc. But junior and senior year, because we had 12 groups of 10 students each, there was no way everybody could do the same clinicals at the same time - the hospitals would be overwhelmed with students in those areas! We only went to a few different hospitals so we'd have 3-4 groups doing clinicals in different units in each hospital. Does that make sense?

Junior year we took, in any order: OB, Peds, Med-surg, Elderly

Senior year we took, in any order: Community, Psych, Advanced Med-surg

Then for the last half of the last semester, everyone went off to do their preceptorships at various hospitals and units.

[ARmickie]

Our school only offers the LPN program right now, and it's in three semesters.

First semester has 8 weeks of clinical in LTC

Second semester is: OB, med/surg, and "drug admisition"

Third semester is : peds, mental health, med/surg again and "leadership rotation"

[PennyLane, RN]

Semester I - Fundamentals, no clinical (may be changing in the future)

Semester II - OB/Peds/Psych or Med Surg

Semester III - Reverse of Semester II

Semester IV - Community, Senior Practicum

[TweetiePieRN]

1st semester-fundamentals and med/surg. clinicals start on the 6th week of school!!

2nd semester- more med/surg. clinicals start on the 3 week of school.

for the following semesters clinicals start the 1st or 2nd week of school:

[3rd semester- geriatric/ltc/psych nursing. half of the semester is at ltc and the other half in the mental institution.

4th semester- ob/pediatrics

5th semester- advanced med/surg

6th semester- more advanced med/surg, leadership, management