What is the Norm? (ADN Clinicals)

[Linz8]

Our clinicals for the first semester is supposed to be W/F 8 am - Noon. I'm thinking to myself that surely we won't jump right into clinicals without some kind of training.

I have my last orientation tomorrow and then class starts Monday and I'm sure this question will come up, but am curious as to what other programs entail. Thanks.

[kasia2]

We have a short Cna course which is called politically correct " Nursing skills". It lasts about a month, we have skills checks off as well as two theory tests and one final exam, it is expected of us to achieve 77% for that class and then in October we start the fundamentals and have our first experiences in clinical settings, I love my clinical schedule thought, it is split up into two days and it last five hours, I think it is quite logical for the 'freshmans".

[nurz2be]

We have 3 weeks of preparation then off to LTC/Nursing homes. We spend 2 months there. I don't know beyond that yet.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

It's about 8 weeks of classes and training before we start having clinicals in a clinical setting. Though we start having lab time next week, and they do consider lab time to be clinical time.

[puresass]

we have four weeks of class/lab before we start clinicals.

[StudentNurseAbby]

In my first semester we did lab during our scheduled clinical time...Tuesdays and Wednesdays 8am-2pm. 4 weeks in we started at a LTC facility on the schedule but every other week, 1 week lab and the other LTC clinical. Second semester, we did lab for 2 or 3 weeks, I don't remember and then we jumped in to OB/PEDs and Med-Surg and we did clinical every week until the end of the semester Thurs & Fri...7:30am to 2:30pm.