kate8716

Yes, anything is do-able. :) There are clinicals beginning your first semester but I wouldn't really call them clinicals. The first semester you go to the hospital just a few times to perform assessments on patients. The second semester you have clinical once a week from 7-1. From then on it's 2 days a week from 7-3. The hardest courses during the first 2 semesters were definately the patho/pharm classes, but still do-able.

What's hard for me is the amount of knowledge we are expected to gain in such a short time... you're thrown into the program and are expected to understand how to chart like a nurse, how to do an assessment, etc after the first 1 or 2 classes. The first 2 semesters consist of mostly "foundations" type classes, skills labs, and your 2 patho/pharms. Those in the acclerated program take the same courses as everyone else, they just have to go during the summer months as well as regular term. To be in the program you must have a degree in something (even accounting... ) Here's some more info: http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Nursing/don_index.htm

I go to SLU's NS. Yeah, it is hard, but I feel like we're learning alot. I don't have any other experience to compare it to, but the nurses where we have clinicals are always very impressed by our knowledge (compared to students from other schools). The first 2 semesters of actual nursing school is in Hammond and the last 3 are in BR. Clinicals are pretty much all BR, with the exception of psych, which could be in Mandeville. People in the accelerated program go every semester (including summer) and graduate in December (wheras those in the normal program who start at the same time graduate in May). Of course if they start in the Fall this is different...