This week during my pediatric clinical the students from the local ADN program was also on the same floor as my school was. (I am in the BSN program for those who do not know). I was talking to one girl from the ADN program and we were comparing our programs and it was quite interesting. It seems like my classmates and I are getting ripped off compared to what they are getting clinical wise.
AT my school we have 3 weeks of OB, 3 weeks of Peds, 4 weeks of Med-surg, 4 weeks of ICU, 4 Weeks of Med-surg, 2 weeks of long-term care, 1 day of public health, 2 days of home health, 12 weeks of community divided into 2 semesters, 2 days of OR, 3 weeks of school screenings, 6 weeks of clinical in the hospital (It varies from clinical group some of us were on orthopedics, some were on skilled nursing/rehab, others were on pulmonary.) Then our last semester in our senior year we have a nine week senior capstone in the area of our choice.
We have clinical 2 days a week from 630pm-2pm and one day a week we stay for post clinical conference from 2pm-3pm.
Just out of curiousity what is your clinical set-up like in your program. I just find it really interesting how so many programs vary in major ways.
