Class and Clinical Experience

The TSTC ADN Program utilizes an online and hybrid teaching-learning environment. The course content, presentations, and lecture may be delivered online via TSTC’s Learning Management System (LMS), distance learning, or video presentations. Labs and clinical experiences will include face to face experiences.

Each semester a schedule with lab, exam, and clinical days and times (hours and times may change every semester) will be provided to the student. Experiences vary between semesters and are achieved through lab, clinical simulation, and patient care settings. Students are RESPONSIBLE and EXPECTED to check email daily for the entire program (due to possible changes in scheduling). Information to access instructors, including email, is found in each course syllabus, and posted in each nursing course within the learning management system.

Generally, classes and clinical experience will be scheduled so that the student shall not exceed 12 hours of class or clinical per day. Clinical experience may be offered during the day, evening, night, or weekend shifts to provide a well-rounded, realistic and varied view of registered nurse practice. When in the clinical setting, all students will have 30 minutes for lunch, and two (2) fifteen-minute breaks for clinical 8 hours or greater (this allotted time breakdown will be determined at the discretion of the clinical instructor). Hand-off reports to responsible staff will be required when the student leaves the clinical setting. Students will follow the rules of the health care facility as outlined by the facility during the orientation.