What clinical rotations does your nursing school offer?

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My school offers geriatrics, psych, l&d, medsurg, icu, er, and public health. We have no peds rotation. I wish my school had an oncology rotation because that's a major interest of mine *sigh*.

Just curious to see what other schools offer so what does clinical rotations does your school curriculum include?

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Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

My program was med-surg, Psych/Physical Rehab (split quarter, the latter being a glorified med-surg rotation in a specialized environment), Critical Care (ICU), OB/Peds (split quarter), and will finish with Community/Senior Internship. Since I started the program has added a geriatrics clinical to the beginning of the sequence as part of the intro class.

I'm surprised that you got an ER rotation - my understanding is that most schools forgo that rotation to the point that I think they actively avoid incorporating it into the curriculum. I'm equally surprised that you don't have a peds rotation at all - do you at least have a didactic class for peds?

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

My program has a Foundations I & II class. In Foundations I we are in a nursing home and in Foundations II we transition to the hospital setting. Afterwards, we have adult med-surg, gero med-surg, OB (postpartum and L&D), mental health, public health (communities), peds, critical care and our preceptorship. We don't have a specific "oncology" rotation but I know for my peds rotation the instructor I have is on an oncology floor so I will be there the whole time.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I'm in a 4 year program, and our clinicals/courses consist of:

Professional Nursing 1 (theory only)

Foundations of Nsg practice (theory only)

Fundamentals - geriatric/nursing home clinical

Health Assessment - theory only

Psych - inpatient and outpatient clinical sites

Maternity - L&D for half semester, postpartum for second half (along with one day each in NICU, fetal monitoring clinic, and women's health clinic)

Peds - school nursing for 1/3, inner city clinic for 1/3, and childrens hospital for last 1/3 (floors vary- oncology, PICU, etc)

MedSurg 1 - medsurg floors at local hospitals (oncology, respiratory, tele, ortho, etc. with one or two clinical days in the OR)

Leadership - theory only

MedSurg 2 - local hospital clinicals

Community - local clinics, visiting nurses, etc.

Transitions - students pick a clinical focus (peds, maternity, medsurg, etc.) and have a clinical rotation in that area; some students have done their transitions clinical in the ER, working with a midwife, etc, etc....

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Specializes in NICU.

My school is transitioning to a new program, but with similar clinic rotations.

Old Program:

---Foundations (nursing Home)

---Psych

---Med/Surg

---OB/Peds

---Community

---Management

New program (the one I'm in)

---Foundations (nursing home)

---Med/Surg I

---OB/Peds

---Community/Psych

---Med/Surg II + Preceptorship

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Specializes in mental health.

it's a 4 semester accelerated program...

1, 'intro' (i got lucky and was in an acute care setting)

2, psych & med-surg

3, peds & ob

4, community & practicum

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My accelerated program clinicals are like K.P.A.'s.

Semester 1: Basic Skills

Semester 2: Psych/Med-Surg

Semester 3: Peds/OB

Semester 4: Community health/practicum

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Specializes in ED.

Semester 1: Fundamentals (all 16 weeks)

Semester 2: Med surg 1 (GI/GU systems- first 8weeks), Peds (2nd 8 weeks)

Semester 3: Psych (just a half a semester-6 weeks- and other half we're off)

Semester 4: OB (first 8 weeks), Med surg 2 (Ortho/neuro-2nd 8 weeks)

Semester 5: Med surg 3 (Cardio/Respiratory-1st 8 weeks), Perceptorship (2nd 8 weeks)

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Specializes in NICU & OB/GYN.

in Canada I am in a 4 year program as well (and in my 4th year now..yay!)

Year one: intro to clinical-random placements mostly at personal care homes dealing with geriatric clients

Year two: "Health promotion of older adults" (again geriatric rehab etc.)

& "Restoration" (basically acute care and surgery)

Year three: "Maternity" (hospital-l&D and postpartum...and community-home visits to new moms) & "Maintenance" (chronic illness-medicine ward)

Year four: Mental health & palliative combined (you do half the term in one then switch to the other) & lastly Communities and Public health.

We then have final practicum as well which we choose a site and work full-time for 3 months.

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I'm in a 2 year ADN program with 10 week quarters

year 1

Fall quarter-fundamentals, we went to independant living facilities where clients had their own appartments/condo

Winter quarter-geriatrics in a LTC facility

Spring quarter-Med Surg I

Summer practicum- (no class all clinicals) Med Surg 2

Year 2

Fall quarter- OB/Peds

Winter quarter- Psyc inpatient, home health, and hospice (3 weeks of each)

Spring quarter- Managment stepdown type floors in hospitals

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It's interesting to see how different everyone's clinicals are and the way they are taken. This is for a BSN program.

Semester 1: 7 week Geriatrics (hospital setting)

Semester 2: Psych, L&D/OB

Semester 3: Med-Surg 1, Pediatrics, Management

Semester 4: Med-Surg 2, Community, Preceptorship (10 weeks) in our specialty of choice.

All of our clinicals are seperated so none of the specialties are combined and aside from the Geriatrics, the other clinicals are all the full 15 week semester length.

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My program is accelerated as well, and has a higher amount of clinical hours than average

1st Semester

- Nursing Home

- Hospital Setting (ER/OR)

2st Semester

- Psych / Corrections

- Maternity / Pediatrics

- Community Health

- Management

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