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1. Galen-Tampa Bay

   saucey replied to LIBBYFACE's topic in School Programs

   Your welcome! If you have any more questions feel free to ask!

2. Galen-Tampa Bay

   saucey replied to LIBBYFACE's topic in School Programs

   We had several people who would skip a few quarters and were let back on due to family or personal issues. It's case by case basis usually. The attendance policy is you cannot miss two weeks in a row, so some people were able to handle their situatio...

3. Galen-Tampa Bay

   saucey replied to LIBBYFACE's topic in School Programs

   Hi! actually enjoyed my time at Galen. I can say now that it seems 99% of my graduating class has passed the boards and were in jobs already and we graduated October 9th. And several of those jobs were at our previous clinical sites. i really enjoyed...

4. Galen College of Nursing

   saucey replied to 111th's topic in School Programs

   That sucks cause that means your looking at two a week once you hit the end quarters, hopefully that's something they do, then decide is dumb and stop doing by the time you guys get to the last few courses

5. Galen College of Nursing

   saucey replied to 111th's topic in School Programs

   It would never hurt to ask! Even if taking it with your first nursing course foundations can happen it would be better, it's just rough with med surg

6. Galen College Tampa Class 2016

   saucey replied to nursehopeful0626's topic in School Programs

   I didn't have to take any of the general Ed classes, so my first quarter was intro to nursing once a week, and an online computer course. The second quarter was pharm and foundations of nursing, I had pharm for 4 hours once a week and foundations lec...

7. Galen College of Nursing

   saucey replied to 111th's topic in School Programs

   As far as child care, many of the moms I were with found that going to class 4 days a week worked better and they picked all the early classes so they were only away from home and kids for a few hours a day versus a whole day 2-3 times a week

8. Galen College of Nursing

   saucey replied to 111th's topic in School Programs

   If you do decide to take it at galen, I would suggest what some of my fellow classmates did and take ONLY that class. If you speak to the office and ask to have it early or on its own they will let you. They tend to place it with med surg prt 1 which...

9. Galen College of Nursing

   saucey replied to 111th's topic in School Programs

   I would take your micro elsewhere as well, I didn't take it at Galen but my classmates that did said it was pretty difficult to juggle the workload that specific instructor gives on top of the nursing course they partner it with schedule wise varies ...

10. Galen College Tampa Class 2016

    saucey replied to nursehopeful0626's topic in School Programs

    you can private message me through here! or ask on the post here! I have no fear of being blunt if need be on the public post!

11. cna to rn???

    saucey replied to missglamour's topic in Pre-Nursing

    funny enough from my experience many of the LPNs struggled a bit more with testing than the rest of us because it was hard for them to let go of the "well i do that at work, so why does the book say an lpn cant do that?" i was a CNA prior to going as...

12. Anyone dismissed from Galen?

    saucey replied to jerseyheart's topic in School Programs

    i know this is late, but for anyone who may find this later ill answer what i know. Galen policy is 2 fails and your out. you WILL fail the whole quarter lecture lab and clinical even if you fail only one portion of those such as failing clinical but...

13. Tampa Galen LPN to RN PROGRAM

    saucey replied to Stefanie40's topic in School Programs

    i noticed you had no comments, i may be a bit late! i did Galen's ADN program but for the final 2 quarters they mixed us in with the LPN bridge students so i can tell you what i heard from them atleast. they seemed to like the program, although many ...

14. Galen-Tampa Bay

    saucey replied to LIBBYFACE's topic in School Programs

    hello! im a recent grad of 2015, any questions fire away! I will say that every school will have horror stories, and from what ive heard of the others in the area Galen is the better end of the stick there.i will also say that the hospitals we do cli...

15. Galen College Tampa Class 2016

    saucey replied to nursehopeful0626's topic in School Programs

    i specifically made an account on this site because when i started at Galen i had a hard time finding information as well! i graduated a few days ago! if anyone has any questions go ahead and ill answer as best as i can for you guys!