need help from nightschoolers....

Love-A-Nurse · Sep 17, 2003

alan, i am a daytime nursing student but want to say hello and welcome.

jjbaby · Sep 17, 2003

hi,

I work full-time days and go to school in the evenings. I have 2 quarters left to graduate from an ADN RN Program.

Our clinicals are held in the evenings where I go to school. We are at the clinical site from 6:00pm until about 10:30pm. It makes a long day but, it is a way to complete school without quiting your job.

Check with your program director and see when your clinicals are held. Some programs offer clinicals on week-ends too. Good Luck to you.

blkdawn · Sep 17, 2003

I work 40 hours a week during the day and our school fortunately has a night/weekend program. This, the first semester, we have classes three nights a week from 6 to 9 and then we do clinicals on Saturday from 7 am to 2 pm. Next semester I've heard we do a 12 hour shift on Saturday and the semester after that we do 12 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday. I assume the class schedule is cut down when that happens.

Hope this helps.

Dawn

AmyLiz · Sep 17, 2003

Welcome to the boards, Alan! :)

As the previous posters have already said...for evening classes, usually the clinicals are in the evenings or on weekends. Basically from what I'm told (I'm not in the actual nursing classes yet), it's almost like having a part-time job on top of having your regular full-time job, only you're paying for the pleasure of working!

I'm doing the evening class gig myself, since I work a regular 40 hour/week job too. It's tough, but so far so good. Of course I'm only going part-time so it's not too much of a killer, but it's still tough. Especially since it had been awhile since I was in college.

AmyLiz · Sep 17, 2003

Oh...and no, you don't have to quit your full-time job & get a hospital job. Unless you want to.

You probably won't be able to help out around the house as much while you're in classes, but it's not too bad. I've been in school for 3 quarters now & my husband is now used to seeing me with a nose in a text most evenings and pitches in around the house more than usual (vacuums, helps load the dishwasher, etc). Basically because he knows if he wants it done, he'd better do it or else it won't happen! LOL But he's very supportive & really wants me to succeed.

Nusss · Sep 17, 2003

Hi! Alan, i just wanted to with you luck on going back to school. Iam doing my preqes too. Iam going to get a ADN. Anyone who can go to a school , and have there clinicals on nights and weekends is very lucky. I started working partime because you can only do your clinicals during the day here. And ive check 4 different schools. Good luck to you all!

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JoAnn, prenursing student

agent · Sep 17, 2003

Find a school that has a night program.. its the only way

colleen10 · Sep 17, 2003

I am attending an Evening/Weekend program at my local CC for my ASN while I work full time in the day.

I allready have a BS so a lot of my credits transferred. I did finish all the other pre-reqs and even co-requisites in advance of the actual nursing classes. I completed those in the evenings.

Now I am taking straight clinicals. I have Lab one night a week for about 4 hours. Clincals are eash Sat. from 7AM to 3PM. Instead of going to a classroom for "lecture" my school offers an internet program where I log in and download notes.

It can be done. I have found that most CC have more flexible programs but it does seem that a lot of 4 year colleges and university's are also becoming more creative and cathing up.

My advice is to take your pre and co-req's before your actual nursing classes start.

Good Luck!

neonatalRN · Sep 17, 2003

I am in a night ADN program. We have class two nights a week, and our clinicals are every other weekend, 6:45 am to 4 pm both Sat. and Sun.

Heidi