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  1. Bombed Anatomy 1

    You can do it if that's what you want. I bombed ANP twice and passed on the 3rd try. Never failed another class again and never had much of a hard time in nursing school once I was in. IMO it was the institution that made the course exceedingly diff...
  2. Residencies that accept ADN in Georgia

    northside is good, but the dollar per hour pay wasn't as good as piedmont. the retirement plan though is better at northside.
  3. Residencies that accept ADN in Georgia

    northside also takes ASN. I had an offer there too
  4. Residencies that accept ADN in Georgia

    Piedmont definitely takes ADN. I have an ASN which is the same thing and I got hired on.
  5. Working/worked at Piedmont Atlanta?

    The drug calc is easy if you can follow a given formula for insulin sliding scale dosages. A guy that was recently hired on my floor said the tests weren't bad and they give you a retry on the math one if you don't pass the first time, but you have t...
  6. Fall Piedmont Hospital Nurse Residency

    bsn is not required. just make sure you're "safe" and you don't need to worry so much
  7. Fall Piedmont Hospital Nurse Residency

    yes you get a first, second and third pick
  8. LPN'S in GA

    If you will work part time on weekends Piedmont is hiring on the ortho floor
  9. Applied for tons of jobs but no call backs (Georgia)

    You can try for PRN, wellstar cobb, LTAC, SNF, or grady.
  10. Piedmont Cardiovascular Residency

    I have an ASN and I went through the residency at piedmont. I'm currently still employed by them and my clinical manager is also an ASN grad.
  11. What should every orthopaedic nurse know?

    With ALIFs ice chips the whole first day because you don't want to risk a paralytic ileus with little to no bowel sounds. At temps of 99 I reinforce IBE use before giving them tylenol
  12. Piedmont Cardiovascular Residency

    I heard from a guy that finished his residency that he did 2 12's on the floor, an 8 on the floor and 1 day of classroom per week for 12 or 13 weeks. Hope that helps...
  13. Endorsing CA RN license to Georgia

    I forgot, that turn around was with live scan instead of the old ink print way
  14. Endorsing CA RN license to Georgia

    They are both probably about the same. The lag is with the paperwork/filing. I did my nclex in CA as well as GA and they took forever with the paperwork. Allow about 3 months.
  15. Nurses Using Spanish In Atlanta, GA

    At the hospital I work at, we don't have to speak any spanish at all. We can call language services and they will bring up a phone that will automatically connect to a live translator (and the phone covers a wide variety of languages, it gets preprog...