Nursing school schedule

acap2017 · Jun 15, 2017

Each nursing school is different. To be perfectly honest though, you're the one who is going to have to have a flexible schedule. Working full-time and going to nursing school at the same time is not impossible, but it is difficult. You'll have clinical's and classes during the week and nursing exams are hard, so you really need to set aside the appropriate amount of time to study. I am not saying you need to quit working to go to school whatsoever. If you do both and pull it off, more power to you! Just letting you know that you'll have to be the one with a flexible schedule and that nursing school will keep you very very busy. Good luck:)

haleyannsn · Jun 16, 2017

Nursing schools definitely vary. My first semester of nursing school I had skills class on Mondays, Lecture from 8-12 on tuesday, and clinical on wednesday from 6-3. I had the rest of the week off.

Applejack · Jun 16, 2017

If you can stay with your parents, and not work, or work less then that's what I would recommend.

Jeniele, ADN, RN · Jun 16, 2017

You might find a school that's flexible but the schools around me are not. We have a set schedule, lecture on Monday and Wednesday from 8-12 followed by lab in the afternoons on those days. Clinical is on either Tuesday or Thursday, you don't get your schedule until the start of the term and it may include an occasional night, weekend, or both days on a given week. Additionally, we have our exams every other Friday. My advisor had me sit down and calculate out the numbers of hours I would be sitting in or attending class, followed by the "recommended" number of hours to prep or study for each class. This totaled to about 60 hours per week that we would have to devote to school. After writing that down, my advisor told me that the school doesn't recommend that we work our first term so that we can develop a study plan that works for us before trying to work.