Ok, so I know that nursing school is time consuming. I am assuming that much of what is so time consuming is home study. I am wondering what some of your nursing school schedule/home schedules are like. When do you go to school, when do you go to clinicals, when do you study? What year are you in, does it change by semester, is it RN or LVN school?
I have a couple of options for two community colleges to either side of my city. I am thinking of doing the LVN then RN program at the school I am at now for pre-reqs or just going straight RN at a CC I have also done pre-reqs. The LVN, then RN route would be summer through fall, with summer being four days (2clinical/lab and two lecture) and the rest of the year being three days (2 clinical/1 lecture) and a two hour lab day, then RN being three days for spring and fall. The other school would be straight RN, spring and fall semesters only, for four sem. It is three days first year and four days second I believe. I plan to apply to the first and then the second application period would shortly follow. I prefer the first only because I really would like to have the option to take a break if I really need it after the first year of school (I have five kids). I really hope to just go on through though. All my pre-reqs for both programs will be done before I apply to either. 4.0 so far, so I am hoping I won't have a problem getting into the first one.
Anyway, I know this is long but I am wondering with these two options how much time I would be studying in addition to school/clinical. How much time will it really require? I'm willing to do the work, just want to be prepared and have a good idea what I will be in for. What is your schedule like? How much time do study or do home work on top of that? Do you schedule your study time or do you fit it in whenever you can? Thanks for the replies.
I must admit, some of your schedules seem way less strenuous than the two schools I'm looking at. Mainly to do with the lecture I think. I don't think the ones I'm looking at are bad, it just seems some of yours are easier.
I guess, if pre-reqs are done, not sure why I would be sitting in lecture for a two full days a week during the summer and 1 full day a week during the week, plus a couple of hours for lab, if others are just going to lecture two, two hour sessions a week.
I started an ADN program at a CC yesterday. Our schedules are:
Monday
Theory lecture- 9 am-11 am
Practicum lecture- 1 pm-4:50pm
Tuesday-Clinical day (right now it's from 9a-5p, but will change in a few weeks to 7a-?)
Off on Wed. and Thurs
Friday-
Theory lecture 9a-11a
I have all of my pre-reqs done. Some of the other girls in my class are still doing theirs so their schedules are a bit more hectic than mine. I have two kiddos, so basically I've been going through my notes and the texts at night and then I plan on doing major study on Wed and Thurs when kids are at school
ImThatGuy, BSN, RN
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It looks like
Mon: Foundations I from 9-11 and then Assessment from 1-4.
Tues: Pharm. from 9-10:30 and Geriatrics from 10:45-12:15.
Wed: Skills Lab or Clinical with the latter being an eight hour day, I think
Thurs: Pharm. from 9-10:30 and Geri. from 10:45-12:15.
Fri: Found. I from 9-11
Doesn't seem bad. I had much worse back when I got my first B.S. degree.