High school student in WA looking to become LPN

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hey!

so I justed joined this website to help get some of my questions answered! and any help would be great!

Im still in high school (a senior) and i am trying to get every thing lined up for next year. I would love to be a LPN but i am really bad at math and science is this going to hold me back a lot? Does anybody know of any good LPN schools in Washington im in the Tacoma area? would it be better for me to go into medical assisting since math and science are my weak points? What is the average pay of a LPN in my are?

sorry i know thats a lot of questions but any help would be awesome:)

Thanks!

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For the MA program you will have the same math (dosage calculation) as LPN.

I'm not much of a math or science person but I've always loved biology and did well in dosage calc.

In your area there is Tacoma Community College

Clover Park

Bates Technical College

also Olympic College in Kitsap has an LPN program.

good luck

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dude i sucked at math in high school...but somehow i had like a 96 average in med math. even if you think you're bad at something, go for it anways and just try your hardest. and nursing is more anatomy and physiology

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

many nursing schools require an entrance test which assesses your math and science abilities. most people who want to get accepted into a nursing school bone up on the areas they are weak in to get accepted into the school. these tests generally address 4 subjects

  • math covers whole numbers, metric conversion, fractions, decimals, algebraic equations, percentages, and ratio/proportion
  • reading covers paragraph comprehension, passage comprehension, and inferences/conclusions
  • english covers knowledge of punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, contextual words and spelling
  • science covers science reasoning, science knowledge, biology, chemistry, anatomy and physiology, basic physical principles and general science

there are study manuals that you can buy from any major bookstore to help you pass these tests. the math you need to perform medication calculations needs to be to the level of 8th grade math or pre-algebra. you need to be able to do calculations with fractions and ratios. you need to have had biology in high school. if you want to see the kinds of math problems student nurses do, look at these two threads on the student forums:

here is information about location of nursing schools in the state of washington and wages (national):

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