When you are in NS do you do anything during the summer?

i have to do a co-requisite for the first month of summer uuuggghhh :-|

but then it's all R&R for me:smokin:

I have all my co reqs done (well I will have them done in 2 more days WOOHOO)

We don't have any commitments this summer. They said that they would post drug cards for us at some point so we could work on them if we wanted to but I dont know when that will be. Other than that, summer off woo hooo!! (although I have an externship and another class I have to take)

Summers are required, two weeks off then summer quarter starts.

Summers are required, two weeks off then summer quarter starts.

Are you in an accelerated program?? Our program you don't have regular classes during the summer. You have Fall and Spring, but I am not sure if their is anything else they do have you do during the summer, I just know it's not actual classes.

I have pharmacology this summer. Could have taken it this term and had the summer completely off, but decided to spread it out some.

It's a standard 2 year AND program. 7 quarters total with summer required.

my school doesn't and i'm off for 4 months!!, it's gonna be hard knowing that i still have 1 more grueling year left, i kinda just want to finish it off and not spend 4 months thinking about the hell that's ahead. i have med-surg my last year of nursing school so i'll be reading my med-surg book over my summer vacation, sadly

At my community college, the nursing program is two years long, with two Fall and Spring semesters. The summer is yours unless you want to take the NCLEX-PN exam. Then you take the LPN transition course the summer after your first year, and after passing it, you can sit for the NCLEX-PN.

Nothing required of us, though we have an informal "reading group" formed; we plan to read most (or all) of our med/surg stuff, and possibly some of the OB/peds text, so we'll be somewhat prepared for the fall. I'm in the Denver area.

My program has no summer requirements, but many of the required courses (Psych, Soc, English) and some of the electives are offered then. I took advantage of that so I only had the core nursing requirements to worry about during regular sessions. That may not be the ideal for many people (because it seems like you're in school ALL the time), but it worked for me.

That is exactly how I have done it, except I didn't do it in summer, I have done it before. One our Nursing Schedule we have Nutrition and Pathophysiology put into different semesters, and elective in the last semester needed to graduate. But you can do those before hand, all of mine are done. Just took my Nutrition Final tonight and have my Pathophysiology Final tomorrow, already took care of my Elective requirements and all my other classes, so when I start in August I will have only the nursing core classes to take and we have to follow the schedule for them.

I have a 2 year ADN program with 2 Fall and 2 Spring Semesters. We can't take any of the core classes in the summer.

I guess I will just do what I planned and prepare for the Fall semester over the summer to help ease the load, unless I find out we have to do something else that is.

It seems bitter sweet to me though, on one hand it's nice to get a nice break after all the hard work. At the same time though to have like 3.5 months off can sort of get you out of your stride you had going on.