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We are glad you are joining us for this session because there have been a few changes to application requirements taking effect which will impact the application cycle.\nMy name is Stephanie Thompson, I am the Health Sciences Coordinator.  I work with seven different health science programs at TCC.  I also want to offer a shout out to Theresa James, the Administrative Assistant to the Nursing program.  She is your go-to person with individualized questions related to the Nursing program application process.\n*When you consider enrolling in a nursing program, it is important to know a bit about the profession.  Nursing programs are rigorous and will require a significant investment of your time and resources.  And, not everyone has a good understanding of the types of work a nurse will do in the course of his or her work.  Although incredibly rewarding, nursing is challenging and not everyone is cut out for it and you need to determine if nursing is the right fit for you.\nIn fact, we strongly encourage all prospective students to spend some time researching their future occupation of choice to ensure they have a good understanding of the career.  A great web page I recommend is Career Coach.  You can find this on the TCC website at tacomacc.edu.  Type in the words, “career coach” in the search bar and you should find links to the career center and/or the career coach page.\nOnce you are on the Career Coach site, you could enter in your occupation of choice in the search bar.  For example, if I were thinking of becoming a Registered Nurse, I would enter this in the search bar and several options would come up which include the term “nurse” in their description.  I could click on any of the options, and it would provide great detail related to the daily tasks.  Read through them and think about if you could really picture yourself doing this work.\nWe recommend this because we see a large number of students who are interested in working in health care, but many of them really don’t understand what it would be like to provide personalized services for all walks of life, when they are severely sick or injured.  Often when people are receiving services, they are not happy to be there.  They may be in pain, and/or experiencing significant stress, anxiety, or fear.  These aren’t usually good indicators for the best behavior.  Think about whether you have it within you to provide empathy to others in these types of scenarios for a 12 hour shift, and then turn around and come back and do it again the next day.  Case in point, with COVID-19, health care is not a glamorous job.  It can be grueling and at times, heartbreaking.  You may be exposing yourself to illness, and may have to great take pains to prevent bringing it home to your family and friends.  Ask yourself if you can really do it.  Every day.\nOther perks of the Career Coach site include typical educational attainment levels and wages for our area.  What I like most about this site is it provides regionalized data.  So, your research can be specialized for either the Seattle-Tacoma area, Lacey/Olympia, or Silverdale/Bremerton.    Career Coach is also updated every 10 weeks.\nIt also will list current job postings.  I think it is worth at least five minutes of your time to research the return on investment – job prospects – for the investment of your time, effort and finances to know what kinds of jobs are out there for our graduates right now.\n*There are many ways one can get into the nursing profession.  Paths can vary depending on the amount of time one has to pursue their education before entering the workforce, or it may vary depending on the type of nursing work you want to pursue.\nThis pyramid represents the various levels of nursing education, with the foundational skills listed near the base of the pyramid, with increasing levels of specialization as you near the peak.  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