Schools with clinicals backloaded all into one semester?(Texas is where I am looking)

[preciouspkgs]

I am trying to find out what ADN schools out there offer all clinicals in their final semester. I was just in orientation with some new grad nurses from Houston and Dallas who told me they did all the didactic classes first and then they basically just went to work for clinicals the last semester. Because we were in orientation I didn't really get time to ask them what schools, and now I am curious. (I didn't get names and we don't work in the same department).

Anyone know?

[preciouspkgs, ASN, BSN, RN]

16 weeks of full-time (40 hrs/week) clinical works out to 640 hours. That's the roughly amount of clinical I had in the first year of my diploma program, when we only had two clinical days a week. The second year, we had clinical three days a week and, the third year, four days a week (an additional 960 and 1440 hours, roughly, respectively, for a rough total of over 3000 hrs).

But I suppose most anything is an improvement over what most nursing programs are doing nowadays.

Most of the BSN programs I looked at don't even think about clinicals until the end of 1st semester/beginning 2nd semester of their third year. So it sounds like you had a great program, but thats not the norm.