What hours do you do your clinicals?

Bicycleboy · Oct 18, 2005

Mine will be starting this Friday at 7:00 to 11:00 at LTC. I don not know what to expect since this is my first semester of 8

stressgal, RN · Oct 18, 2005

7am-4:30pm, I'm in quarter 5 of 7.

Lisa CCU RN, RN · Oct 18, 2005

Do they require you to get there before 7:00 to prepare or can you do this at home? I have heard that some students must report at 5:30 or 6:00 to prepare to take care of their patient. Is that just a recommendation? I have children and I'm a single parent and I don't know if I can get there that early without a daycare that is open around those times. I wantd to know if I should use a private daycare so maybe the hours are more flexible and would allow me to drop off my children earlier.

betsyMT2003 · Oct 18, 2005

My school gives us the choice of clinical times - I have chosen the typical day shift clinical, which goes from 7:00 to 3:00. I'll have to go the hospital the day (or night) before clinical to get the paperwork and get the care plan going, and then when we report in the a.m. we begin with a preconference and check for any patient changes overnight. They also offer evening shift and even Saturday clinicals as options.

mattsmom64 · Oct 18, 2005

My school has 2 options: 0630-1430 or 1400-2200. Clinicals meet two days per week. Also, you need to go the day before to pick out your patient and have your care plan written before the clinical starts......

sonja77 · Oct 18, 2005

we go from 0640 to 1615 two days/week. we usually leave the unit around 1445 and have post-conference.

RedSox33RN · Oct 18, 2005

Do they require you to get there before 7:00 to prepare or can you do this at home? I have heard that some students must report at 5:30 or 6:00 to prepare to take care of their patient. Is that just a recommendation? I have children and I'm a single parent and I don't know if I can get there that early without a daycare that is open around those times. I wantd to know if I should use a private daycare so maybe the hours are more flexible and would allow me to drop off my children earlier.

We go the day before to pick up pt. info, then write the care-plans at home the night before clinical. We have to have gotten report and be ON the floor by 7am, so it usually means getting there around 6:40 or so, depending on how report is given (by tape or in-person. We've done both).

Also, it may sound strange, but don't forget traffic/parking issues. At one hospital we were at, the students were made to park in the furthest, most out-of-the-way lot they could possibly find. It made it a GOOD 10 minute walk from the parking lot and into the building and up to our floor - no kidding! And traffic in this area was horrible with all the shift changes around that time. Best advice there is to do a trial run and see how it might be around that time, especially if you're like me and have to travel a good distance.

Our clinicals SAY they run from 7-2pm, but I find each instructor is different. We had pre- and post-conference in my first rotation, and she always let us go early. Others did not, and kept us late sometimes, even for those students who had to get back to campus for a class (and they'd end up going in their scrubs - YUCK!).

klone, MSN, RN · Oct 18, 2005

First semester: 7 am - 1 pm

Second semester: 7 am - 3 pm

Third semester: 6:30 am - 7:30 pm

devi, ADN, BSN · Oct 18, 2005

For the first half of this semester, my class was divided into days and evenings. Half of us (myself included) went 7:30 am - 1:30 pm and the other half went 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm. This was for two days per week.

Now that we're starting psych clinicals, my group is doing 7:00 am - 7:00 pm on Mondays only. Seems like an awfully long clinical day to me, but oh well...guess it will get us ready for typical nursing shifts once we're out of school.

CallMePatti · Oct 19, 2005

I'm in first semester of an ADN program and my clinicals are 7:30 am - 3:30 pm every Saturday.

S.N. Visit, BSN, RN · Oct 19, 2005

We have to be at clinicals @ 6:15 am -2:30 p.m on Wed & Thurs for first year and PN students. 2nd year goes to clinical on Monday's & Tuesday from 6:15-2:30.