Nursing school schedule

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What is/was your program's nursing school schedule like? Was it lock-step or did you schedule your own classes? If lock-step, were there days off during the week? How many clinical days per week?

Just curious! I know schedules can change a bit per semester, so just wanted a general idea of what it was like.

Thanks! :cat:

Another vote for lock-step. For this last semester, we had one class all online, self paced. Our class was split in half because it's so large (95 students). Half of the class had 2 classes all day on Thursday with sim lab on Friday (sim lab was 4 different 1.5 hour blocks, assigned alphabetically by last name). The other half of the class had sim lab on Thursday and class on Friday. Clinicals were completely random on Mon-Wed and Sat, depending initially on last name alphabetically, but with a short period during which we could switch with other students. I happened to have Monday clinicals, Thursday class, Friday sim lab. My buddy got Thursday class, Friday sim lab, Saturday clinicals.

Long story short, our class times and sim labs are set on the first day of classes, usually alphabetically by last name. Our clinical times are usually set by the next week, alphabetically initially, but with opportunity for switching.

I think our program is a little bit more disorganized than most programs, because we don't know the schedule ahead of time, but the class size is abnormally huge for the school and I think they're just doing the best they can. It also helps teach you to be patient and flexible, which is good for nursing.

Interesting reading these. Thanks for all the replies! :)

Yeah I thought it was a lot too but I'm sooo excited to do lots of hands on training :)

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I'm in a BSN program. Every semester is generally the same. The first month is lecture, M-F from 8:15am-2:30pm. On the second month, clinicals start. Our schedule then changes to Monday lecture 8:15am-2:30pm, Clinical on Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday is an off day, and Friday lecture is 8:15-12:30pm.

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