Taylor13 CNA

Hey! Did you end up continuing with L&D at Edmonds? I will be starting my residency there this August and I am wondering how it is!

The alternate form is not first come, first serve. If you are close to making it (maybe 34th and they allow 32 then you would be 2nd alternate after the 33rd person) then they will have you decide if you want to be considered as an alternate if one o...

There is no minimum to be considered, they just take the people with the 32 highest point totals. This varies from quarter to quarter and Fall usually ends up being the highest. The minimum for my cohort was above 105, but I have seen lower recently....

If you have time, try to up your volunteer/work hours since that is a big section to get points in! Another big point area is experience in a setting addressing health inequities. Another thing you could look into is other schools if that's possible ...

Thanks! And congrats on your acceptance! This quarter our first quarter students are still doing some classes online, so that may change in the Fall, but they have classes every day. Mondays are usually clinicals 0600-1100 at a hospital or long term ...

OB! My unit will have L&D, postpartum and a special care nursery so it’s a fun mix!

We didn’t pick the speciality, but they give you 4 hospitals to choose from each quarter and you rank them 1st to last choice. Then most hospitals have a few units you can see, but they are usually randomly assigned. Sixth quarter is the only one whe...

First quarter is long-term care, second is med-surg (I did ortho), third med-surg again (I did neuro plus one day OR observation), fourth is med-surg and psych (I did stepdown/telemetry and general medical plus an inpatient psych facility), fifth is ...

There just isn’t one! Most schools you have one set up for you and you focus on clinicals and transitioning to practice whereas shoreline is still very theory-intense in the end and we just did another round of med-surg clinicals. We do 4 med-surg ro...

I 1000% recommend Shoreline. My only complaint is that we don’t get a preceptorship/senior practicum like other schools do, but financially it’s a good option. It was about $12,000 total (or less) for the 6 quarters. I started in September 2020 and g...

I think I had 106ish! The NLN has no impact on getting in, it’s just required to apply. GPA impacts getting in since it is part of the points, but there are so many other ways to build points, so it is just based on overall points!

I am graduating from Shoreline's 6-quarter program this June if you have any questions!

I got my offer on the spot (paper sheet with intent to offer info) at the interview and then I got the official email offer a week later!

Have you still not heard back? I applied to both around March 21st and have already interviewed with both and received an offer from Swedish. I only applied for perinatal though, so not sure if that makes a difference!

I would check your state's rules on this, but as the above poster said, usually nurse techs are already in nursing school. In my state, you need to have completed at least one term of clinical rotations in nursing school to apply for a nurse tech lic...

So far I am liking the program! Just be prepared for the "flipped classroom" model (I was definitely not since we did not do this where I did my prerequisites). Theory classes have switched to a hybrid format now, so some content is online, but tests...

Hello! I am currently applying to schools in Washington and I was wondering if anyone else on here is applying for the RN program at Shoreline. If you are, what are your points and what other schools are you applying to?

I got my CNA license in WA the same week I took my exam. I also took the NAR route to get experience sooner and that license was also pretty quick to obtain, but I don't remember exactly how long it took. I'm pretty sure I was able to work as an NAR ...

I absolutely recommend getting your CNA. I was a CNA before nursing school and it made me way more confident in the clinical setting. You learn the basics of patient care, so when it's time for clinicals you have more time to focus on the new nursing...

I don't think that is worth it, but it is up to you! ADN is much cheaper and it takes around 21 months to complete then you could do an RN-to-BSN bridge while already working as an RN. Most employers will also pay for the RN-to-BSN, so you would just...

I think you could do a light review, but I wouldn't worry about an in-depth one! Some nursing schools are different, but mine reviewed A&P before each topic so that we could refresh on the basics before learning the in-depth disease processes. Nu...

I would give it some more time! My first quarter of nursing school was the worst. It was so busy and as you said, unappealing. I hated everything we did and I thought I would hate nursing. It got a little better in the second quarter and then way bet...

I think it would depend on the school you are at! I know a lot of schools around me prefer students who have worked as CNAs, but it is not necessary to work in the medical field. I looked around at the job descriptions for a sterile processing tech a...

This looks pretty similar to my fundamentals class as well! We did not dive into every topic, but it was mostly broad subjects such as sexuality, spirituality, ethics, development, and nursing history with some basic nursing knowledge like eliminatio...

I am in the Seattle area, but the schools I looked at were all around Washington.