Accelerated BSN Clinicals Provide Experiential Learning
Unlike with many professions — where you likely don’t get real-life work experience until starting your first job — clinical learning experiences are part of your nursing education. For your Accelerated BSN clinicals, you’ll be able to build your clinical judgment skills in a variety of clinical settings.
With a wealth of clinical hours, interacting with real patients and providing care under professional supervision, you’ll graduate from our 16-month Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing ready for a life-changing and rewarding career. You’ll also finish our ABSN program ready to sit for the NCLEX-RN®, the nationwide exam all nursing graduates must pass to practice as a licensed, registered nurse.
To ensure you gain enough nursing experience over such an accelerated time frame, you’ll begin clinical learning experiences in your first semester. Don’t worry, though. You will have time to grow and build your nursing practice throughout each semester of the nursing program.
Clinical Learning Experiences
Accelerated BSN clinicals provide opportunities to apply the information you learn in your online coursework into a variety of clinical environments alongside professional nurses.
Still, that doesn’t mean you’ll immediately start inserting IVs or evaluating patients’ responses to complex nursing interventions. At first, you’ll perform basic care skills, learn how to assess and communicate with diverse patients, and document nursing interventions. Other skills you’ll focus on at the beginning of your nursing clinical experience include safe patient-handling practices and assisting patients with activities of daily living (ADLs).
As the content of your online coursework becomes more complex, so will your clinical learning experiences. Later in your accelerated BSN experiences, you’ll find yourself taking on additional responsibilities and learning more complex skills. You will also spend time reflecting on your own emerging performance, which is an important part of your growth and development as a professional nurse.
While the length of your Accelerated BSN clinicals will vary, you can expect to gain experience in a variety of modalities and settings, preparing you to provide safe and holistic care as a professional nurse.
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