Typical week in nursing school?

I'm in an evening/weekend ASN program at a community college, so my schedule may be different from others... but 4 days a week I get my kids ready for school, go to work for about 5-6 hours, get my kids home from school and 2-3 days a week the babysitter comes because I have to go to class/clinical before my husband gets home from work. I don't work on Fridays so I still bring my kids to school but then I can get school work done while they are there. Other than Fridays, I rarely do homework or study until my kids are in bed because we don't get enough time together as it is.

Our clinical schedule rotates so it isn't always 3 nights a week. The two nights a week that I have lecture it is from 5-9 pm. If its clinical on a weeknight than it is 3-11 pm. Then every other Saturday I have clinical from about 7 am - 4 pm. Depending on the rotation I may have clinical on Sundays as well. It is doable but hard to manage my time. I need more time for studying but I also don't want to take more time from my kids. So far I am making it work! Most of the people in my program are also parents so it helps to have others around who know how it is.

At present I am a full time nursing student. I am in an execrated program, ADN. I carry 12 credit hours & will continue until I graduate.

At work I'm a Surgical Technologist. I work as much as possible. I have the luxury of having a great boss who can usually help with my schedule.

Some weeks I work 4-20 hours a week. My Outpatient surgical facility is only open M-F, no weekends or holidays.

I get up most mornings at 4:30 am no matter where I'm going school/work/clinicals.

This Quarter's schedule:

Monday: *Exam Days, No work. Up at 6:30, School 8:00. Meet with Study Group at 10:00 until 1:00*

Up 4:30

Work: 6:30-10:30

10:30-1:30 study/lunch/exercise/travel time

Nurse Theory Class: 1:30-5

Home 5:30-11:00 Study/Dinner/chores

11:30 sleep

Tuesday:

Up 4:30

Nurse Lab/Nurse Theory Class 8:00- 5:00

Home: 5:30-11:00 Study/Dinner/chores

11:30 sleep

Wednesday:

Up: 4:30

Work: 6:30-? (3:30-5:30)

Home: whatever time Study/Dinner/Chores

11:30 sleep

Thursday:

Up:4:30

Clinical: 6:30- 3:30

Home 4:30-11:00 Study/Dinner/Chores

11:30 sleep

Friday:

Up: 4:30

Clinical 6:30-4

Home: 4:30-11:00 Study/Dinner/Chores

May/June Friday's

Up:430

Work 6:30-? (3:30-5:30)

Home: whenever... Study/dinner/chores

Saturday:

Up: 7:00-9:00

Exercise 9:00-10:00

10:00 Shower

10:30a-11:00 Study/Assignments/Chores/dinner...

Sunday:

Up: 7:00-9:00

Exercise 9:00-10:00

10:00 Shower

10:30a -11:00 Study/Assignments/Chores/dinner...

That's my life for the next 12 weeks....

Hope this helps.

Thank you both so much!

I am just finishing up my first semester in an ADN program.

This has been my schedule for pretty much the whole semester:

Monday

8am-10am lecture

12pm-2pm seminar

I usually study between lecture and seminar or work on whatever assignments are going to be due throughout the week.

After class is over I go home and take a nap then study for about 5-6 hours with breaks.

Tuesday

7am-11am clinical

12pm-4pm skills lab

After class is over I do the same as I did Monday, I might even study less depending on how I did the night before.

Wednesday

12pm-2pm lab

Same thing as the previous :)

I work part time as a tech in the ED and usually work Thursday-Saturday so I don't study at all on those days but then I usually have time to study on Sundays.