night/weekend nursing schools

krisiepoo · Dec 13, 2013

every school I'm sure is different, but I did my degree on nights and weekends and worked FT the whole way through

we had 4 classes at night during the week. Clinicals were e/o weekend from 6-3 (we got there early to do pre-clinical prep)

In our final semester, we had clinicals in the evenings, the 3-11:30 shift during the week AND on weekends, it was very clinical heavy. We had team lead positions and those people had to show up at 1:30 to get the assignments made for the other students. I wish I'd have known that, Iw ould have saved up PTO time because I had to leave work early for every single one. However, there's no way they could have had us all there on weekends

cjcaet · Dec 14, 2013

My school will be every other wknd Friday 4-8, sat and sun 6-6 and every wk one might 6-9.

LindaB73 · Dec 14, 2013

My school had lecture on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and 12 hour clinicals on Saturday.

springchick1, ADN, RN · Dec 14, 2013

What school are you going to be going to? I am in a Night/weekend program now. We have class 2 nights a week with most clinicals Saturday or Sunday. This semester we will have class Monday and clinicals Tues, Wed, or Thurs evening.

pistolfannie · Dec 17, 2013

I am attempting to get into the Community College of Rhode Island - Newport campus program. I work at the naval station as a Govt employee. I tried asking this question on the Rhode island nursing board to no avail. I am happy to hear that there are some people that have worked full time and made it through. I have been a student in some fashion for 12 years (military has kept me jumping from one place to another) but now i am stable in one spot, my dream/goal is back on track. I have my information night tomorrow (18 Dec) so I'm sure I'll get the low down then. but it is very heartening to know there are folks that have "survived" the night and weekend :-)

1hotnurse08 · Dec 17, 2013

I am currently in an evening/ wknd ADN program. I have evening classes on Tues and Thurs (3hrs) and clinical every other wknd on Sat and Sun

(6 hrs) I work doing private duty on Mon, Wed, and Fri so this type of works allows for some downtime that I'm able to study and do reading assignments for my classes. I will be entering my 3rd/ final semester in jan 14, and I'm very excited! The evening/ wknd program has been a blessing! I can go to school and still have income (although not a lot) but enough to suffice while I finish nursing school!

Bojamashell · Dec 28, 2013

I am in an evening/weekend ADN program. We have class two "nights" a week from 3:45pm-7:30pm (not what I'd call evening, but close). Then we have clinical different days. It changes in our program. 1st semester it was 1 day a week on Saturdays. 2nd semester was 2 days a week - Saturday and Sunday. But then 3rd semester was a nightmare with clinicals. It varied for each clinical group. My group for example had some weeks with 3-4 days of clinical and some with only 1 day of clinical. The hours varied from 8-12 hours. I had to take off a lot of time from my full time job to complete the require clinicals because sometimes they were scheduled for 8a-5p during the week. This last semester, the evening class has an option of 2 groups. Both groups have class on Monday and Tuesday, and clinical on Friday and Saturday. However one group's clinicals are 7a-3p those days and the other group is 3p-11p those days. I prefer mroning hours because that's when I'm most refreshed and focused. However because of my job (I can't take off every Friday for an entire semester), I had to go with the 3-11. It's going to make my Fridays long beginning work at 6am and ending around midnight when I get home from clinical.

pistolfannie · Jan 6, 2014

Thanks for all the info! it seems like the "schedules" are similar. fingers crossed! I have to go to the info session in Feb, since my hubby ended up going to the ER for kidney stones the original day.

thanks again!

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Jan 6, 2014

I did that with my ADN program. I was then able to keep my day job M-F in a doctor's office. You will be stressed because there is precious little time to study if you work full time, but I did it and you can too!