Tarrant County Spring 2012 Applicants

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I am starting this for anyone who is applying for the TCC RN program in August.

After your first semester in nursing school you can be a tech at a hospital and be a nurse extern (you can start IVs!! :)) there are other things to do in the hospital but that's one of the best opportunities to really be a part of the action.

cool! I may look in to that after our first semester! :)

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Specializes in Hoping to do either L&D or Trauma.
After your first semester in nursing school you can be a tech at a hospital and be a nurse extern (you can start IVs!! :)) there are other things to do in the hospital but that's one of the best opportunities to really be a part of the action.

Oh that's perfect!! I was going to look in to getting my CNA next summer while we didn't have classes but it looks like maybe I won't have to do that? I'm so anxious to WORK in the hospital since my only experience has been as a patient. LOL :nurse:

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Oh that's perfect!! I was going to look in to getting my CNA next summer while we didn't have classes but it looks like maybe I won't have to do that? I'm so anxious to WORK in the hospital since my only experience has been as a patient. LOL :nurse:

LOL! I thought we do have classes next summer? Mental health courses right? I remember someone from fall 2011 thread say something about that... but I would really like to do a nurse extern. program, I've been working in home-health for 3 years.

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Specializes in Hoping to do either L&D or Trauma.
LOL! I thought we do have classes next summer? Mental health courses right? I remember someone from fall 2011 thread say something about that... but I would really like to do a nurse extern. program, I've been working in home-health for 3 years.

Well as usual I'm highly confused about what exactly our schedule is. LOL That's one thing I will say for Weatherford when I was looking into applying there - they laid everything out for you online so there was no question. I just think I'll be able to get a real gameplan together when I know how things will operate. Either way I'm with you, I'd love to do the extern position. Or, like I was telling my husband, Baylor Dallas has a department dedicated to IVs - IV Services. I had to use them a couple times daily while I was in there and that's all they did, IVs, and they were awesome at it. I wouldn't mind doing something like that as well.

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I know Cooks and Baylor both have external.programs but you have to be getting a BSN with atleast two semesters of nursing school...

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Specializes in Progressive Care Unit (ICU step-down).

The job description for the pcts at Texas Health Resources says that you either need a current CNA certification or have first semester of nursing school... It is to my knowledge that you should be qualified after the first semester, after all, isnt that what the skills classes are for?

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Im guessing so, since we will have some one on one patient experience we would be qualified. That would be cool to do though!

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Im guessing so, since we will have some one on one patient experience we would be qualified. That would be cool to do though!

Sounds reasonable to me, considering a lot of CNA programs only take 6 weeks or a little more.

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Sounds reasonable to me, considering a lot of CNA programs only take 6 weeks or a little more.

we wouldn't need the cna cert. after the first semester! Even if someone did get take the CNA course, the chances of getting hired are still slim because they wouldn't have any patient care experience, which is usually what they look for. Yay us!!! :) I know most of those jobs are on a " as needed basis" but something is better than nothing right? I'm so excited to start! I want to buy books so bad!!!

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Specializes in Hoping to do either L&D or Trauma.
we wouldn't need the cna cert. after the first semester! Even if someone did get take the CNA course, the chances of getting hired are still slim because they wouldn't have any patient care experience, which is usually what they look for. Yay us!!! :) I know most of those jobs are on a " as needed basis" but something is better than nothing right? I'm so excited to start! I want to buy books so bad!!!

Me too! I also want to start looking at the CID's but I learned from Chemistry it's just easier to buy them at the library. Cheaper too, so that will have to wait along with everything else. I'm not a great waiter. LOL

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I started looking at the CID's for the 2011 class..one of them is about 40-50 pages, the other is about 140 pages..maybe the smaller ones I will print from home since i have double sided printing, the other, i might as well buy, lol.

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my scrub tops and lab coat came in today!!! eeeekk!! :yeah: i was so excited! i undressed in the kitchen and tried them on! i was so giddy! My shoes should come this week also..

--any word from our fellow alternates??? I hope there is some good news coming!!!:up:

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