UMDNJ ABSN HOURS

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From any UMDNJ ABSN Alumni, do you know how many hours per week the program requires? I know the website said 60 hours a week, but how accurate is this? And if this is accurate, does this include homework or strictly classes and clinicals? Open to any other comments from UMDNJ current students or hopefuls as well! Thanks!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Hello!

I'm currently a level one student in the program at Stratford - it is definitely not 60 hours a week. Our schedule (plus one online course consisting of mostly discussions):

Tuesday:

Class 8-10:50, 12-1:50

Wednesday:

Class 8-1050 (only like half the time), 11-12:50

half the class has lab 1:30-4:30, other half has it 4:45-7:45 (depends when your clinical is)

Then either Thursday/Friday/Saturday (we have a large class so we are split into 3)

lab first 6 weeks from 9-3ish (sometimes we get out early), rest of the semester: 6:30am-2pm clinical in the hospital

So as you can see, nowhere near 60 hours a week. However, it is very intense. When not in class, I am doing homework/studying a lot of the time, as are a lot of my other classmates. Yet, I still work one day a week and am able to see my friends and family, so it is not unbearable. Plenty of my classmates have families and have no problem with the schedule. Not sure how the other levels are though.

Although this doesn't show clinical dates, it is a helpful reference: http://sn.umdnj.edu/studentsonly/ABSNSchedule2012Fall_Stratford.pdf

Let me know if you have any other questions! Feel free to email me - [email protected]

-Lindsay

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Thank you so much! This is by far the most resourceful thing I've seen on the internet as far as Stratford's schedule for the ABSN! I can't thank you enough!

Ashley

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I just realized, it looks like once you get past the first semester the program decreases in intensity by a lot! I know you are still in your first semester, but have you heard anything about this being true?

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Happy I could help :) I don't think it decreases in intensity as you progress through the levels, from what I've heard anyway. Level 1 you only have one clinical course, whereas in levels 2/3 you have more, even if the amount of days of classes decrease. I have heard from multiple people that level 3 is by far the hardest just due to the classes taught and the amount of clinical courses. Also, level 4 seems to be a little more laid back though as compared to the others.

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Hey Lindsay! Just seeing how things are going. Are you still in Level 1? Do you think it's a good program and are the teachers helpful and knowledgable? Also I wanted to see if you know of anyone in your cohort or in another that has children and is going through the accelerated program. I have a 2 year old. By the time I start the program she will be three. I am just curious if you think it is still very doable with having a child and balancing school. I won't be working and my husband will take over all the bills by that point, but I'm still concerned I won't have enough time to keep my grades up and still have some time with my daughter. Let me know what you think!

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