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Mackenzie
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How many rotations are required to become a nurse?
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Suzanne Swain Brint
Nursing
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Suzanne’s Answer
Hello Mackenzie,
All nursing programs require "clinical hours" in order to earn your degree. These clinical hours will be held in both the inpatient (hospital) and outpatient (clinic or doctor's office) settings.
The specific rotations are generally: medical/surgical, geriatric, pediatric, women's health and reproduction, mental health, and community health.
Nursing education is generalized. Once you pass your state board examination, you will have the opportunity to work in specific areas of interest to you.
As a student, I was extremely interested in learning more about cancer nursing (oncology) and went on to spend my entire 35 year career as an oncology specialist in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
Here is some more information for you regarding what a nursing education entails. Please copy and paste the URL into your browser:
https://nursejournal.org/bsn-degree/anatomy-of-a-bsn-degree/
I hope this answer is helpful!
Sue
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All nursing programs require "clinical hours" in order to earn your degree. These clinical hours will be held in both the inpatient (hospital) and outpatient (clinic or doctor's office) settings.
The specific rotations are generally: medical/surgical, geriatric, pediatric, women's health and reproduction, mental health, and community health.
Nursing education is generalized. Once you pass your state board examination, you will have the opportunity to work in specific areas of interest to you.
As a student, I was extremely interested in learning more about cancer nursing (oncology) and went on to spend my entire 35 year career as an oncology specialist in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
Here is some more information for you regarding what a nursing education entails. Please copy and paste the URL into your browser:
https://nursejournal.org/bsn-degree/anatomy-of-a-bsn-degree/
I hope this answer is helpful!
Sue
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Cheryl Sell
Registered Nurse
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Roseburg, Oregon
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Cheryl’s Answer
Hello Mackenzie,
there are differing concerns with each and every program. Clinical hours are different right now, but most programs require multiple hours of clinical on site such as inpatient (hospital) and outpatient hours (long term nursing, doctors office, clinic, imaging and more) to get your degree. Although each program should have an application and lay out of the current program hours required and what the schooling schedule looks like. Coming from a community college our schedule consisted of regular days in classroom, and two days a week of clinical hours from 0630-1430 every semester. This was worked straight into the schedule and was already a factor for your schooling days. These days differed only in our Practicum classes in which we were required 150 hours over a 3 month course working twelve hour shifts with one nurse.
Different programs do things differently but that is how my course was when I did my schooling 3 years ago. Graduating my hospital that I was hired into then placed the new hire nurses with an orienting nurse for 3 months in order to help gradually move them into the new process of being a nurse in the hospital setting, although there are many different areas to be a nurse, and your clinical hours will help you find which area you enjoy the nursing the most.
there are differing concerns with each and every program. Clinical hours are different right now, but most programs require multiple hours of clinical on site such as inpatient (hospital) and outpatient hours (long term nursing, doctors office, clinic, imaging and more) to get your degree. Although each program should have an application and lay out of the current program hours required and what the schooling schedule looks like. Coming from a community college our schedule consisted of regular days in classroom, and two days a week of clinical hours from 0630-1430 every semester. This was worked straight into the schedule and was already a factor for your schooling days. These days differed only in our Practicum classes in which we were required 150 hours over a 3 month course working twelve hour shifts with one nurse.
Different programs do things differently but that is how my course was when I did my schooling 3 years ago. Graduating my hospital that I was hired into then placed the new hire nurses with an orienting nurse for 3 months in order to help gradually move them into the new process of being a nurse in the hospital setting, although there are many different areas to be a nurse, and your clinical hours will help you find which area you enjoy the nursing the most.