duckzoom75

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1. Grading - academic integrity CCRI

   duckzoom75 replied to duckzoom75's topic in General Nursing

   Hey Bill - I doubt I will be finishing my degree at CCRI anyway. But may have just as much a problem getting in elswhere now. I thought that the nursing program did not take grades that were curved?...

2. Grading - academic integrity CCRI

   duckzoom75 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I posted this to the Student Nursing forum - but since it is local (Meaning CCRI) I wanted to post here and see if I could get some reactions: I recently found out that a fellow student will be...

3. Pre-adn Student Question

   duckzoom75 replied to PREMALERN's topic in General Nursing

   Hey PRE - Youngins? I though I was still a youngin! Nursing students ages run the gammut from traditional high school grads to 50+ Night and weekends you will find will probably be mostly older...

4. Pre-adn Student Question

   duckzoom75 replied to PREMALERN's topic in General Nursing

   Hey There - Congrats on starting your classes at ccri. I am currently finishing up my pre-reqs there as well. The thing you have to remember is you need to do really well, since ccri admittance...

5. Jobs worked to get through school

   duckzoom75 replied to nursethelma's topic in General Nursing

   Right now I work full time (40hrs/week) in marketing while I am taking my core classes (bio, psych, etc..) when it's time for clinicals, I expect I will leave my job and get a lot of loans! If they...

6. Finding my "nitch" as a nurse.

   duckzoom75 replied to snowfreeze's topic in Nursing Career

   I have many reasons for changing careers and going into nursing. I am almost through my first semester and am just so psyched to be finally working toward it. I am so excited for the variety of the...

7. BA, RN or BA, BSN what do I do?

   duckzoom75 replied to 7-7-2004's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   I have a BA in Art History and have decided to go the Associate's Degree to BSN to Masters route. I know it will take longer but I am prepared for that. I live in RI and looked into the BSN program...

8. Nursing as Second Career

   duckzoom75 replied to duckzoom75's topic in General Nursing

   Hi Krissy - Thanks for the suggestion, I will check that out. Although I guess I wouldn't consider 30 years old "late in life"

9. Nursing as Second Career

   duckzoom75 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just curious, I would love to hear from any nurses/nursing students/etc. Is nursing a second career for you? If so what did you do before, when and why did you decide to go into nursing? I will be...