Meeting Times
Meeting times vary between campuses. All six credit-hour courses require both classroom and clinical/lab hours. Days of the week for the nursing classes and clinicals can vary per session. All six credit-hour nursing courses meet four times a week: two days a week for lecture and two days a week for clinicals. Clinicals will consist of 7-hour days.
As part of NURS 213, extra class time is required. There is a mandatory seminar that meets on 3 Fridays and additional/extra hours are required for demonstration of nursing skills (masteries).
Faculty reserve the right to change the calendar with advanced notice to meet the needs of the program.
Each nursing course is composed of a classroom portion {2 days a week (5 hours total)}, and a Clinical/Skills Lab component two days a week (No separate clinical component for Mental Health and Pharmacology) for seven hour shifts or 14 hours per week. Day clinicals typically begin at 6:30 a.m. Evening clinicals typically begin at 2:30 p.m. The starting times for clinicals are patterned after the typical shift starting times for many of the hospitals/facilities. Each nursing course typically has two day groups and two evening groups. The clinical groups are dependent on space the clinical facility can accommodate our students and is subject to change.
Exceptions to standard meeting times (both campuses)
Some clinical rotations involve alternative-learning experiences that may require clinical times that vary from the norm. Some courses include clinical experiences that can only be completed during the day. Students who are assigned to evening clinicals may need to switch to days for certain experiences.
Some examples include: observing the Missouri State Board of Nursing hearings, observing in the operating room (OR), or various community-based learning experiences such as observing the role of the school nurse.