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1. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Thanks for the reply. With Georgia trust me I have been neck deep in the legislation from the get go. Since this directly affected my career path I went over every line with a fine tooth comb. With the other states I was just going by what I had r...

2. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Isn't California, Virginia, and now I believe Texas total bans? I was under the impression that unless you got in before the deadlines in these states that even as a working nurse you could not get your license in these states with an Excelsior degr...

3. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Thanks for all the great feedback. RN34TX - I realize that the states and universities are a separate issue however they kind of get rolled together for me when it comes to CRNA schools. With my wife's position I would need to apply to programs clos...

4. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Helicoptergal, I see on your profile it shows you being a paramedic for 10 years and a RN for 2 months. How are you able to practice in CA? Did you do all the schooling before they changed the rules or did you find a backdoor into that state? That...

5. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Thanks for the responses. Sorry if this thread is getting too specific, I didn't mean to hijack it. Anyways, I have considered the PA route but I am actually more interested in the anesthesia side of things. After getting to work with the CRNA's d...

6. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Ok, not sure if this thread went silent because of the controversial posts or if nobody really has anything to say right now. I must say I am currently consumed with indecision. I am happy that we were able to pull some sort of a victory out of thi...

7. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   HB 475 has now passed the Senate. I guess it is off to the Gov. to become law. It passed overwhelmingly. I guess this is the new reality. Now let's just see if we can get this whole preceptorship thing figured out.

8. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   Hopefully they wouldn't change the rules again before I got to the preceptorship. Even if I complete everything I am still at the mercy of the boards whims on approval correct? So how does someone go about getting a preceptorship? I would hate to ...

9. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

   jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

   I was going to post on this earlier today. When I saw that I had a glimmer of hope "especially being a paramedic and thus excluded from HB 475". However, if you pull up the "current version" of the bill it appears they have removed the former bill ...

10. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

    I hope that it doesn't come down to some watered down compromise bill but if that's what it takes so be it. However I noticed that 475 excluded paramedics! I sometimes feel like I have two fights on my hands, to be included in the Excelsior group a...

11. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

    You can follow the link from the previous post to track SB 49. When you get to that page click on the legislation link and type in 475 under house bills. Hit search and make sure you are sitting down!!

12. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

    Oh come on!!!! Just when I was starting to get my hopes back up I went to go check out that House bill 475. I am a paramedic so this would be the end of it for me, AGAIN! I have been getting excited looking at how easily SB 49 passed the Senate th...

13. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

    Hello all, I was talking to a paramedic turned rn via Excelsior last night. She works at Kennestone which I am sure most of you know is the busiest ER in Georgia and one of the busiest in the nation. She was informing me that many of the nurses wor...

14. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

    The link in the letter didn't work but here is the link I found. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=GEORGIA_BOARD_OF_NURSING%2Findex.html&d=1

15. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    jjcnbg replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior

    Response I received from my letter to the GBON August 8, 2008 Good Afternoon! During the 2008 session of the Georgia legislature, a bill was passed that requires all applicants for licensure by endorsement to have graduated from a nursing education ...