Possible to do 2 clinicals in 1 semester?

labman · Jul 15, 2007

Well in my Bachlors Degree program I took a community clinicals and a peds clinical. The community clinical was three credits and the peds clinical was one credit and seven weeks. I remember it was A LOT of work.

donlind · Jul 15, 2007

labman. Thanks for answering. I'm entering an ADN program and was just looking for ways to speed up the clinical process since I've already finished most of the non-nursing related courses.

soontobenurse2 · Jul 16, 2007

I just graduated from an ADN and I know that we were not allowed to do 2 clinicals rotation in one semester. In my ADN program we were assigned to different units every semester. Med/Surg, Peds, OB, Cardiac.

On my third semester we did have PEDS/OB clinical on Tuesdays and Psych Clinicals on Mondays.

You might want to check with your school's program manager.

Hope this helps!!!!

Lisa CCU RN, RN · Jul 16, 2007

We took adult health and psych clinicals in the same semester and we took OB and PEDS clinicals in the same semester. Even crazier, some people in our program are taking THREE clinicals: adult health, psych, and OB in one semester, so yeah it's possible.

MikeyJ, RN · Jul 16, 2007

In my accelerated BSN program, we do at least 2 clinicals per "semester" (we actually do trimesters) from the 2nd thereon (we are in a 4 semester, 14 month program).

*2nd semester consists of OB, Peds, & Geriatric clinical rotations

*3rd semester consists of Med Surg I & II and Psych clinical rotations

*4th semester consists of ICU, community health, management, AND preceptorship clinical rotations

StudentNurseAbby · Jul 16, 2007

I did Med-Surg and OB/Peds in one semester. That's how it is at my school. It's an ADN program.

marilynmom, LPN, NP · Jul 16, 2007

We *always* have 2 clinicals per semester in my BSN program.

AnnaN5 · Jul 16, 2007

We *always* have 2 clinicals per semester in my BSN program.

We also have 2 clinicals per semester as well in my ADN program except for the very first semester. The first semester is just Fundamentals, then we have Med/Surg & Maternity, then Peds & Mental Health, then Advanced Chronic & Advanced Acute Care.

MB37 · Jul 16, 2007

Can you ask a counselor at your school? Different states may have different requirements as to what order everything can be taken in. I'm in an accelerated program that doesn't "accelerate" until the last two semesters: semester 3 is Med surg I and II (integrated clinical) along with psych, and semester 4 (the killer) is peds/OB/women's health/community/leadership/preceptorship. Some of that is integrated as well, and preceptorship is last after we cram the first bunch into 7 weeks. I think it's 3 total clinicals that semester, with community which we do offsite and leadership somewhat less time-consuming than the rest. Our whole program is set in stone unless you fail somewhere and become "out of sequence," and most classes must be taken in seuence - can't progress to semester 4 curriculum unless you've passes both med-surg sections.

Cristhian1986 · Jul 18, 2007

Has this ever been done?
Don

I am having Peds, OB, Psych, all in summer. Pretty crazy, but thats how my program is.

SoulShine75 · Jul 19, 2007

We are only allowed to do one clinical rotation at a time. Our clinicals follow what we're learning in lecture/theory. Plus the school has contracts with the hospitals and we have to abide by their schedule for us to be there, the contracts and when a clinical instructor can be present to oversee your work. Our first semester our clinical was at a LTC facility because we were learning basic nursing care and assessments. 2nd semester we had Med Surg I and our clinical was on a Med Surg floor (mish mosh of illnesses/surgeries etc..) 3rd semester we had Med Surg II and psych so our clinicals were divided between those 2 areas and next semester (my last, hooray!) Will be divided between OB and Peds.

Speak to the program coordinator about this if it's an option. Good luck to you!