Schoolcraft Nursing Program

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Anyone out there entering the Schoolcraft program? Or anyone currently enrolled or recently graduated? I wanted to get some insight!

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing; Geriatrics.

Hi there! I am currently in my second year of the nursing program at Schoolcraft. What would you like to know?

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Hi!! Congratulations on your second year!! Good luck to you :)

My question is basically about the hours of clinicals, I just have no idea what to expect. I see that fundamentals has the hours posted for the clinicals but the other classes don't. Are the clinicals done on campus for fundamentals? How far in advance do you find out? Being a mother of 2 with a husband that works crazy hours, I have to do alot of planning! I am so excited to start but I am definitely a planner.

I'm starting informatics and pharm this winter. I'm excited about that.

I know its going to be a ton of work and I'm ok with that. I'm more concerned about the balancing of everything.

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Hi!! Congratulations on your second year!! Good luck to you :)

My question is basically about the hours of clinicals, I just have no idea what to expect. I see that fundamentals has the hours posted for the clinicals but the other classes don't. Are the clinicals done on campus for fundamentals? How far in advance do you find out? Being a mother of 2 with a husband that works crazy hours, I have to do alot of planning! I am so excited to start but I am definitely a planner.

I'm starting informatics and pharm this winter. I'm excited about that.

I know its going to be a ton of work and I'm ok with that. I'm more concerned about the balancing of everything.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing; Geriatrics.

Congrats on starting Pharm. and Informatics soon! Informatics is a breeze and Pharm. is a lot of work but I'm sure you'll do great!

As far as clinicals go in Fundamentals, you spend the first portion of the semester in the skills lab two days a week learning all of your skills. You begin real clinicals in October. When I started last year we had our clinicals at a nursing home but this year Fundamentals students are starting out in the hospital setting instead. My schedule in Fundamentals last Fall was Monday: Lecture 8-1pm Tuesday/Wednesday: Skills lab/Clinicals from 8am-2pm, just to give you an idea. Afternoons are also offered as an option.

All of your classes throughout the nursing program will be three days per week- one lecture day and two clinical days. As far as when you find out where/when your clinicals are, sometimes we don't find out until 2 weeks before they begin. This can be VERY frustrating when you're trying to plan babysitters, work schedules, school schedules, study schedules, and everything, but they tell you in Informatics that your new middle name is "flexible" and they mean it! Everything is based on a lottery system. You will receive a list of lecture and clinical options via email for every class and you will have to list your order of preference. Based on your lottery number, and then your preference form, your lecture/clinicals/day/time is assigned to you by the nursing office. After Fundamentals, which is 15 weeks, every other class is 7 weeks long, so literally your schedule will change every 7 weeks. It can be crazy but honestly, there are people in my program who work full time, have children & family, and are still making it through the nursing program. If there's a will there's a way! It's hard work but it will definitely be worth it when we graduate in May!!! :nurse:

My key advice to you is to keep up on the reading and don't fall behind! Always come prepared to class and clinicals ... and take everything one chapter, one day, one test, one class, one semester, one year at a time!!!

Let me know if you have other questions or anything and feel free to send me a PM if you'd like to! :D

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Thank you so much for the info! I am very excited to start! I know I will figure the whole balancing thing out but its nice to know what to expect.I probably will have more questions :) But unfortunately I can't PM because I haven't posted enough yet.

Good luck to you :)

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing; Geriatrics.

No problem at all! Feel free to ask any other questions you think of (even not via PM)! I'll try my best to answer them.

I wish you the best of luck! :)

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Thank you :)

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