Courses are taught employing a combination of didactic, laboratory, and experiential or practical learning. The lecture, laboratory, and externship/clinical hours for a course are identified on the syllabus. Lab hours may be scheduled differently from classroom hours and may vary throughout the program.
Lecture classes are delivered by qualified instructors in a traditional residential classroom with appropriate learning resources.
Lab classes constitute learning activities either led, guided, or supervised by an instructor, or performed by students in groups or individually. Such lab activities may take place in a laboratory, classroom, or simulation with appropriate learning resources.
Clinical and/or externship courses typically take place at a qualified clinical/externship site, and students perform tasks under the guidance of a site supervisor and/or a clinical instructor.
There is no online or distance education instruction at St. Paul's School of Nursing.