Question for everyone who started this fall

[Adams_Mama_07]

I will be starting nursing school in January and have a question (ok two) for those of you in the thick of starting nursing school right now. I see many of you had your orientations right before you started the program--which kind of worries me because my employer needs to know my availibilty at least thirty days prior. So basically by December 15th I need to know if I will have any clincials in January and when my orientation will be if it's in January). I know, I know, I need to get up with my school--and I will--but I was just curious as to what everyone else's experiences were.

1. How soon do your clinicals start? (Or at least when did you find out when your clinicals would be??--my school lists times as TBA for clinicals).

2. When were you told your orientation would be?

~Melanie

(formerly, Adams_Mommy_07)

[everlasting]

My clinical started the first week in. It was a bit intimidating at first, but it will give us a good 16 weeks of clinical practice.

When I got my acceptance letter in the mail, the date and time for the orientation were included within the packet of information I was sent.

Hope this helps!

[lorba]

I received my acceptance letter in June, which told us the August orientation date. I found out at orientation what my schedule would be like which included clinical day as well.

[SierraMoon, ADN, BSN, RN]

I got my orientation information a few weeks after I was accepted. We start clinicals in October, times were posted with the fall schedule back in the spring.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

My orientation was day before classes but schedules have been up for us since June/July on our Nursing Website, (first day was August 24th) we have our schedule for the entire semester for everything, our clinicals start 3 weeks in and are same day each week and same time.

[craziechiq, BSN, RN]

1. Our clinicals start on the fifth week of school.

2. Our orientation was back in May and I started classes early August.

[sweetiepeas]

My orientation was several months before I started. Might have been because of summer though. Ours was at my school.

[Mossback]

At my school orientation was five days before the start of school. However, information and schedules were available on the school website for several weeks prior to the orientation.

Clinicals start in the third week of the program.

[Lajimolala, BSN, RN, NP]

1. Our nursing school orientation always started the week before school starts, so it was easy to predict that.

2. We were told that we will be doing clinicals at the hospitals 8 weeks into the semester. Also, right on the class schedule it listed the changes in time for clinicals if there are any.

[Lennonninja, MSN, APRN, NP]

Orientation was mid July, I started classes Aug 24th. My first clinical day is Sept 22nd.

[cingle]

Orientation info was included in the "Welcome to the Program..." letter. The dates were included, but the actually speakers/times/subjects was refined over the intervening weeks.

Clinicals start right away and we were sent our schedules in (I believe) June. Basically we all were informed that a full-time student should plan on being either in class or at clinicals at any time Monday through Friday between 6:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. If you get some time off in there anywhere...celebrate!

[bananimal]

We had an orientation a month after we received our acceptance letters-- then pretty much the whole first week of school in september is going to be "orientation." At the orientation in May they gave us the entire schedule for September-- and told us we wouldn't be starting clinicals until the first week of October. Since May, they have posted online the ENTIRE schedule from September to December-- so we have months and months and months notice for our jobs and private life.