SDSU Undergrad Nursing- Where does clinicals take place?

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Hello, for SDSU undergraduate nursing students, where are clinicals located in which hospitals specifically? Like Sharp, Scripps, Kaiser?

Also, are all students together in one hospital or spread out through several hospitals?

Are they on a rotation basis then between several hospitals? If so, does it matter where, say, sophomore students do clinicals in one place and junior students do clinicals in another place?

I am wondering because if I have to find my own additional clinicals in the future for this....

Thank you so much for your time!

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Hello, for SDSU undergraduate nursing students, where are clinicals located in which hospitals specifically? Like Sharp, Scripps, Kaiser?

Also, are all students together in one hospital or spread out through several hospitals?

Are they on a rotation basis then between several hospitals? If so, does it matter where, say, sophomore students do clinicals in one place and junior students do clinicals in another place?

I am wondering because if I have to find my own additional clinicals in the future for this....

Thank you so much for your time!

Specifically:

Scripps La Jolla

Scripps Chula Vista

Sharp Memorial

Sharp Grossmont

Sharp Chula Vista

Sharp Mary Birch

Sharp Mesa Vista

UCSD

Kaiser

VA

Balboa Naval

Aurora Behavioral

Rady Children's...

Students are placed in clinical groups of about 8-10 every semester

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They'll have it set for you so you won't have to worry. SDSU is among the most established in clinical placements. Doesn't hurt that there is an abundance of teaching facilities in San Diego.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to response, umad!

May I please ask if you happen to know if say...... say, sophomores and juniors undergrad does clinicals in different places (do they even run into each other)?

And do you happen to know how often rotations occur? Or is the group of 8-10 students stagnant in one location for an entire semester and then change places to another hospital the next semester?

Thank you!

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Thanks for your reply and encouragement! :)

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Thank you so much for taking the time to response, umad!

May I please ask if you happen to know if say...... say, sophomores and juniors undergrad does clinicals in different places (do they even run into each other)?

And do you happen to know how often rotations occur? Or is the group of 8-10 students stagnant in one location for an entire semester and then change places to another hospital the next semester?

Thank you!

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors have different clinical placements because they are taking different courses. It is not likely they will see each other.

And you are placed at a specific hospital for the whole semester.

You are also not in the same clinical group every semester.

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Thank you again for your reply! Also, do you happen to know if clinicals will ever take place on a weekend?

And if clinicals will ever be more than one day in a single week? I thought toward the later years it would extend to 2 days a week of clinical but I'm not sure?

Thanks again!

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Thank you again for your reply! Also, do you happen to know if clinicals will ever take place on a weekend?

And if clinicals will ever be more than one day in a single week? I thought toward the later years it would extend to 2 days a week of clinical but I'm not sure?

Thanks again!

There are no clinicals on the weekend.

Med Surg 2 has 2 clinical days a week, and they are scheduled back to back (ex: Tues-Wed or Thurs-Fri)

You may also have clinicals for different classes. For example, Peds clinical on Mondays and OB clinical on Fridays.

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Thank you very much for taking time to reply to me, umad!

There are 5 semesters in 2.5 years of the program, right? May I please ask if you happen to know which kind of clinicals for each semester? Like med surg clinical for first semester, then peds the second, mental health the third semester etc etc?

Thanks again!

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No problem.

1st semester:

Fundamentals (Med/Surg I)

2nd semester:

Med-Surg II

3rd semester:

Peds

OB

4th semester:

Psych

Community health

Gerontology

5th semester:

Critical care

Leadership

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Thank you again for your reply! I appreciate your time for me. :)

Best wishes to you in your program. :)

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