In our college search for a freshmen direct admit nursing program, CWRU website says that the BSN program
provides 1600 plus clinical hours which is double the average of clinical hours. Also, clinicals begin the 3rd week of
freshmen year. Question: 1st - is that asking alot of new freshmen who are still acclimating to being away from home
in a new city, adjusting to college life and workload to start clinicals that soon? How stressful is this for the freshmen? Granted, most students have already done volunteer work at a hospital during high school so they are most likely familiar with the hospital environment but is it too soon to start clinicals? Also, how do the 1600 clinical hours get broken down each year and semester? Do the students have to do clinicals at night or on the weekends to get all the hours in? How are the clinical and sim hours broken down per semester? Does all the clinical hours take away from their other important nursing classes, having time to study and a little fun? We can not find another direct admit nursing program where the clinicals start freshmen year or even have close to that mant clinical hours. Even in higher ranked direct & junior year admit [per U.S. News & World Report graduate nursing programs] such as UPenn, UMichigan, UPittsburg, UWashington & Oregon Heath, clinicals start sophomore or junior year. Other big name schools such as NYU, Georgetown & BC don't start clinicals until sophomore or junior year. CWRU has a great reputation but so does alot of other schools that provide less clinical hours. Also, a nursing assistant job in the summers can provide valuble hospital/clinical experience as an adjunct to the nursing program clinical hours.
2nd question - how many total clinical and total sim hours in the following freshmen direct admit nursing programs:
U Pittsburg, Duquesne, UPenn, NYU, Georgetown, Villanova, UMichigan, UWisconsin [early assurance], Boston College, UUtah [early assurance], Loyola-Chicago, Saint Louis, Marquette, UMinnesota, UDelaware, UVirginia,
UPortland, UTennesse [Knoxsville], San Diego State, UMiami.
Sorry for the long list of schools but we are trying to narrow it down to 10 schools. Thank you so much to all the posters who share their knowledge of these nursing programs in order to help the next generation of nurses make decisions.
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