Meeting Times

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.

The home campus in Columbia, Mo., and the Lake of the Ozarks campus have different meeting times. See the details below for each campus.

Lectures are held two times a week:

As part of NURS 201, 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.

Clinicals are held on two days a week different from the lecture times. Clinicals involve two eight-hour shifts/rotations per week. As long as class size permits, day and evening clinical hours will be offered on a space-available basis. Day clinicals typically begin at 6:30 a.m. Evening clinicals typically begin at 2:30 p.m. These starting times for clinicals are patterned after the typical shift starting times for many of the hospitals/facilities.

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.