Just got my course calendar for next semester...

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Just today, we were emailed our course calendar for next semester...and it made me get all excited. How lame is that? I didn't want to go back to school, and then I read the email and the calendar, and well, it brightened my day a bit.

In terms of the schedule and such, it's pretty similar to the fall semester...but we spend less time in the clinical learning lab, and have less class/lab time after clinical which is pretty exciting because going 7-3 is hard, and that's what we did a large chunk of last semester! We only have a handful of clinical days that go past 1 (9 out of 27), and that's awesome!

Any of you get anything about next semester yet?

Are you ready?

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Nervous! We have class MT 8-2 and clincial Thursday 7a-7p...its our first set of clincials(geri) so im SUPER nervous!!

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Wow that's intense!

I have class M 8-10 (occasionally 8-11 or 12) and then pharm 1:15-2:15 and TH 1-3 (with the occasional lab 9-11/12 beforehand) and clinical TW 7am-12pm (with seminars or lab til 1-3 on occasion).

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Yeah its pretty intense...Med-Surg + Geri + Micro + Clinical...they just kind of throw us into 12s! Im scared to death (espeically bc Im not a fan of hte geri part).

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I think my nervousness peaked, so now I'm just kind of floating along, waiting for school to start (Jan. 10). I'm in an evening program, so my classes are from 4 to 8pm. Clinicals are once weekly from 4pm to 10:30pm starting at the end of Feb. Good luck everyone!

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I'm excited for next semester, so glad to not have to wake up at 5am and do 12 hr clinicals! I have nurse management, policy, and community nursing. It will be a nice change of pace from all the med/surg, pharm, fundamental classes. :yelclap:

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wow you guys have 27 clinical days

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wow you guys have 27 clinical days

What's so wow about that?

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What's so wow about that?

It's too many that's what's wow, lol.

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It's too many that's what's wow, lol.

How many do you have?? And do you have like 8 or 12 hour clinicals? Ours are 5 hours, two days a week.

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I'm taking a total of 17 credits this semester and I'm excited! My school splits up the class into 2 sections and Section A takes Med/Surg 2 with clinical 2x a week and Section B takes Maternity with clinical 2x a week and then they switch mid semester.

I'm also taking Nursing Research, Health Assessment, Patho 2, Pharm 2.

Good luck to us all in our new semester!

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They're eight hours for us one day a week. Last semester, the foundations semester, we only had nine days of clinicals though. I think this semester we'll start them approximately three weeks into the course, but they'll still only be eight hours and one day per week.

The clinicals this upcoming spring semester will be for a class called acute care. We don't have clinicals for psych, and obviously the research methods and pathophysiology classes won't have them. Next fall, we may have two per week since we'll have OB, Peds, and Public Health. I hope not though. They said for peds we're being shipped off to the children's hospital for a few days to do it and be done with it. I'd personally prefer no OB exposure, LOL.

Honestly, I don't like nursing clinicals. They're too structured to learn from, and what I mean by that the exposure is way too limited. Clinicals in paramedic school, of which we had 600 hours to complete, were much more broad.

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