X-Post - I Must Be Misunderstanding This Schedule?!?

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I originally posted this on the student forum but am hoping some HFCC Students/Grads can help me clarify this

...ok so i'm prenursing right now (on "the list" ) but i'm moving out of my gparents house so i was looking ahead to make sure i will be able to handle working full time once im in the program

so i looked at the schools reccomended course of study and compared it with the schedule to get ideas of the amount of time ill be in class and this is what i came up with

one semester i will only hafta take 2 classes (NSG 150 and 155) which is a total of 10 credits, but each class is only half a semester. so i will only have lecture (for exp) on thursdays from 9:10 am - 12:00 pm and then 12 hours of clinical a week (which ive heard is usually all in one day) and thats basically how every semester seems; (about 4 hours of theory and 12 of clinical)

i finished all of my pre and corequisites already so all i will be taking are the nursing courses, but still this just seems like way less class time than i was expecting.. someone explain to me where i messed up (because i know i did somewhere) .... oh and i know about the TONS of homework, but still this doesnt seem like much time spent at school/clinicals

thanks so much

btw my school is Henry Ford Community in Detroit

If you go/went to HFCC can you tell me a lil about the schedule/classload/times etc. I'm trying to get a feel for how i will be able to work in the program to determine if i should move.... :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Ortho-Trauma 1 year, MOHs surgery 4 year.

I am about to graduate from HFCC (this May). Don't be thrown off by the hours at school, you will be there PLENTY. In the beginning, especially, they build-in additional class hours and lab practices which are all mandatory.

Unless there have been changes that I don't know about (and there very well could be), you are in class two days a week (for 3 hours at least) and clinicals two days a week (for about 6-8 hours each). It doesn't seem like a lot of time on paper, but if you add in the reading and homework and tests and the much-hated PAPERWORK, trust me, you are plenty busy. I don't work and I applaud anybody that can or has to because the program is tough.

What are they saying the "wait" list is at right now?

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thats a really good question... one that the school is avoiding answering... i've heard one to two years but who knows?

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