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  1. CNA Scope of Practice - colostomy bag WA

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hello, I am trying really hard to find whether it is legal or not for a CNA (NAC) to change an ostomy bag in Washington State. I have looked at the DOH site, but I can't seem to figure it...

  2. Is anyone doing Intro to Inorganic Chem or General Cell Bio Fall?

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I thought it might be neat to have a long distance study buddy. I'm doing both in Fall and I'm a little bit nervous. I took intro to chemistry in Spring and my class was really disorganized (our...

  3. Is anyone doing Intro to Inorganic Chem or General Cell Bio Fall?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Taking it slow is probably a good choice! My GPA suffered a little from a B in chem and an A- in Psych 100, so I'm hoping I get lots more A's to balance everything out, haha. That's interesting that...

  4. Is anyone doing Intro to Inorganic Chem or General Cell Bio Fall?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hi! I ended up deciding against Chem because I wanted to focus on bio. So this quarter I'm doing General Cell bio, Communications 101, and Library Science (lol it's 2 credits, I just needed to be full...

  5. Tacoma Community College Nursing

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Washington Nursing

    Wasn't sure if it belonged here or in the nursing student section ? So I figured here was better. Does anyone have any success stories from graduating TCC and getting hired. I read something on...

  6. Tacoma Community College Nursing

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Washington Nursing

    Thank you so much for the detailed reply, I really appreciate it. How far into the program did you start clinicals? Was it the first quarter? Are you worried at all about them potentially losing their...

  7. OBGYN field

    RaggedyAm replied to Maree87's topic in Ob/Gyn

    CNA is a good idea. Have you considered maybe taking a Doula class if you want to want to be involved in L&D, just to make sure that's interesting to you

  8. I'm scared

    RaggedyAm replied to fyrephish's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Congrats!!!

  9. Tacoma Community College Nursing

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Washington Nursing

    That's exactly what I ended up doing with financial aid. Thankfully everything is being paid for! I'm now on quarter two of my prerequisites with only a couple more to go. (Should be done next spring,...

  10. I think I'm going to end up with a B in chem, how to get over the guilt?

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This is mostly just a rant, when I talk to my family about it they make me feel worse lol so I'm just venting here. So it's only my first quarter back to school since I dropped out at 16, I'm 23 now....

  11. I think I'm going to end up with a B in chem, how to get over the guilt?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thank you :) I do have a lot of prereqs left so hopefully I can score high in those. I'm just so surprised at this B and for some reason I feel super guilty about it, which is a weird feeling....

  12. I think I'm going to end up with a B in chem, how to get over the guilt?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks for your reply! That makes me feel better, every nursing student I have spoken to is like "If you can't get a 4.0 in all your prereqs, you wont be able to handle nursing school" so it's...

  13. I think I'm going to end up with a B in chem, how to get over the guilt?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    That's really sweet, thank you. I hadn't heard "B's get degrees" haha, that is cute. It's nice to hear that B students exist in nursing school, I'm just so worried because chemistry seems so...

  14. I think I'm going to end up with a B in chem, how to get over the guilt?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was mostly asking if a B is going to screw me over. I was *mostly* asking if that B in the GPA is going to be so terrifying to a nursing school that they're like "uh, no get out of here" I see SO...

  15. Would a 75% NCLEX pass rate scare you away from a school?

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I thought I saw a similar thread and I can't find it so...here we are. I'm trying to plan as much as possible what schools I want to apply to after I finish my prereqs. (Mostly because I want to make...

  16. Lifespan Psych - an observation

    RaggedyAm replied to Zooey72's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm in a psych 100 class right now, which is intro to psych...praying that 200 is a little bit more interesting. It's all just memorization with literally zero emphasis on learning or understanding....

  17. Would a 75% NCLEX pass rate scare you away from a school?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Their minimum TEAS score is very low, but they just raised it and changed the curriculum a lot, so I dunno. I've heard a lot, and when I asked the head of the nursing department about it she said that...

  18. Would a 75% NCLEX pass rate scare you away from a school?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I really appreciate all the responses. I think I'm going to try to get in elsewhere. It's interesting because I have heard that employers love grads from this school (It's Tacoma Community college, if...

  19. I GRADUATED!

    RaggedyAm replied to cupcakeluver's topic in General Students

    Awwwh

  20. Would a 75% NCLEX pass rate scare you away from a school?

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    2011 was 83.5%, In 2012 it was 81.9%, 2013 67.35% (yikes), 2014 71.88%, and 2015 75.0% So it seems like it has been consistently low-ish, but it's better than it was last year, so maybe that means...

  21. Any prereqs you wish you would have taken together?

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have four quarters of prerequisites to do. I'm trying to figure out which ones to take together and which ones I should space out a bit, and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice :) This quarter...

  22. I kind of want to shadow a nurse sooner rather than later.

    RaggedyAm posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hi guys. I'm working on my prereqs right now and I have 3 more quarters after this one (so a year) to go. I want to make sure I'm making the right choice. I saw in another thread that someone said...

  23. I kind of want to shadow a nurse sooner rather than later.

    RaggedyAm replied to RaggedyAm's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I work LTC, so I get a pretty good idea of what the nurses do there, but I'd kind of like a glimpse into a different setting. I can't imagine working LTC as a nurse forever,

  24. Think a 3.0 grade is bad in a prerequisite class?

    RaggedyAm replied to WCSU1987's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Is intro to psych a factored prereq or just a pre-prereq? Intro to psyh for me (also an online class) is psych 100, and psych 200 is the factored one, not 100. So 100 will affect my overall GPA but...

  25. Prerequisites - How long do they take?

    RaggedyAm replied to AspiringNurseNY's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For me, it'll be 1 year almost exactly if I work nonstop. I can take 15 credits per quarter. It really also depends what you test into. I was lucky and tested into the highest english class and into...