Typical nursing school schedule?

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Hello!

I have been in the financial services industry for the last 20 years. I'm facing a possible job elimination for the 3rd time in my career so at 37 I've decided to go to school for nursing. I'm currently in my first semester of biology.

At my school, nursing class meets two days a week on Mondays and Tuesdays one day around 4-5 hours then about 2 hours the other day, which doesn't seem like a whole lot of class time to me (I'm sure they pack a lot of information into those two days though!) I know it's still a ways away, but I'm curious as to how much additional time is spent in clinicals and at what point in an ADN program clinicals start.

Thanks!

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Our clinicals were 1 12-hr day, and we started either the 4th or 8th week into the semester (I can't remember which).

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This semester we have clinicals on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8-12/1, then we have lecture on Thursday from 9-12. Next semester our clinicals are 8-2 and we have 2 days of lecture, I think from 9-12.

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At my school lecture is 3 days a week 0830-1300 and clinical twice a week 0700-1300. When we have open lab it is usually between 1400-1500. During my first semester we started clinical on week 4, but 2nd and 3rd semester we started the second week.

Next semester (which can't come quick enough) there will be 1 lecture day and 3 12hr clinical days.

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Wow that's like a full time job! Gets you used to a real working schedule though.

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Yes, you should expect nursing school (as a full-time student) to be at least the equivalent of a full-time job. In addition to whatever class and clinical time is listed in the school handbook/literature, you will have lab time and clinical prep time that don't appear in the printed schedule (some schools require students to go to the hospital the afternoon/evening before clinicals to gather info on your assigned client(s)). And, of course, you'll be spending plenty of time just studying.

Best wishes for your journey!

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Specializes in PACU.

I have lab for 4 hours, clinical for 5, and 10 hours of lecture every week .

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For my lpn program we went 40 hours a week, two 8 hour lecture days and three 8 hour clinical days.

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My ADN program is one 4 hour lecture a week. Additionally we have an 8 hour clinical followed by a 4 hour lab. We had the option of either having our lecture Thursday morning or evening. We also got to choose which clinical day we wanted, any day Monday through Saturday. Second semester we have a similar schedule but lecture is 6 hours. For third semester I believe we get 2 lecture days on top of our clinical

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Specializes in ICU.

It depends on the semester and school. You start out with mainly lecture and lab then work into a little clinical. By your last semester, you should have mainly clinical and little lecture. Our first semester only required 90 clinical hours, but our last has about 200 scheduled. The amount of work you put in though outside of the classroom can be crazy sometimes. Like elk park said expect it to equal at least a full time job.

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My ADN program has clinicals for 6 hours over 2 days, lab is 2 hours, and clinicals is 12 hours over 2 days. Next semester clinicals are either 2 six hour days or one 12 hour day. For the first time they are also offering weekend clinicals, 12 hrs Saturday and Sunday every other weekend.

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