Best nursing school in GA?

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In your opinion what is the best nursing school in GA and why?

Public and Private.

Look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on this.

"How can someone just accepted have suddenly gained all of this work experience and all of these enough to get annoyed at another person giving valid advice?"

Your perception and assumptions regarding my posts are just that. How I "sound" to you is not of any significance. You do not personally know me, you don't know ANY of my professional accomplishments before acceptance to Emory, or my affiliation with EMORY HEALTHCARE. I do not owe you any other explanation. You stated your opinion based off of your bad experience and I stated mine based off of my experience. The end. Good luck to you as well. :)

How I "sound" to you is not of any significance. You do not personally know me, you don't know ANY of my professional accomplishments before acceptance to Emory, or my affiliation with EMORY HEALTHCARE. I do not owe you any other explanation. You stated your opinion based off of your bad experience and I stated mine based off of my experience. The end. Good luck to you as well. :)

Yes, it is. You're being defensive and had this intention in your first post here. And don't pull this get the last word in stuff on me. It's quite apparent you want to start an argument. I just wanted a discussion. You could have easily responding without the mocking tone and all caps misspelled words. You weren't stating your opinion. You are trying to justify your unsupported opinion by letting your emotions get in the way instead of logic and reason.

At this point, if you want to appear at all justified, you could talk about your professional accomplishments. When you don't give an idea of your supposed "professional accomplishments" or "affiliations," it's easy to assume you don't have any. I understand concern about internet safety, but you could give a more believable reason than you have. I brought up what you said in your first post in order to lead into what experience you may actually have. From that post, it sounded as if you were a student straight out of high school (and honestly, more so now after your other posts). Which regardless of age, you may have experience, but given age limits, not as many high school students do have experience.

If you do have experience, you could share it in a civilized way (not mocking or with open ended, one unpunctuated sentence posts). Typically if people have similar experiences with differing opinions or such professional accomplishments, they are able to give somewhat of a concrete idea. In other words, back themselves up.

Good luck again, Olivia. I really mean it :)

I'm a current Emory senior with only 58 days to graduation. The program is good...tough, but good, nonetheless. For the students thinking about getting an associates in nursing: more and more hospitals are trying to reach magnet status, thus they are really slowing down on hiring ADN's. This year Emory Hospital will not be hiring any new grads with ADN's. BSN is the way to go. It takes the same amount of time to obtain as the ADN. I understand money may be a factor, but Emory is not the only school in GA that offers the BSN. Good luck to you all. I know exactly how it feels to be in this phase of the application process.

I went to Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston, GA which is a ADN program. I also just got a job with Emory University Hospital. BSN is the way to go if you don't have to take out tons of loans to pay for it. My nursing degree only cost me about $5k, and I was able to pay out of pocket (Jan 2009-Dec 2010). Working for Emory I get 80% tuition reimbursment toward my BSN... still no loans. In the end, if you can avoid getting into debt, the more money as an RN you can pocket--BSN or Not.

I completely agree with you, prettipoodle. That was an awesome plan. Congratulations on your new job as well! I have the opportunity to go to Emory without incurring any debt, and I think that it is very important to consider, especially with the current economy. With other nursing schools to choose from, Emory was my first choice to successfully reach all of my future professional endeavors in a timely manner. :nurse:

I completely agree with you, prettipoodle. That was an awesome plan. Congratulations on your new job as well! I have the opportunity to go to Emory without incurring any debt, and I think that it is very important to consider, especially with the current economy. With other nursing schools to choose from, Emory was my first choice to successfully reach all of my future professional endeavors in a timely manner. :nurse:

Wow, if you have the opportunity to go without incurring any debt, don't pass up on that opportunity at all! Sometimes if a private school REALLY wants you and you tell them you are considering another school because you have full scholarship at that school, they'll be VERY willing to bargain with you. Especially if they do have a lot of money. Congrats, Shiningstar05! That's awesome!

Hi,

I'm new to this site and still going through the thought process. I am curious to know how it's going for you. I too was interested in going for my BSN at GSU which is a 3 yr program not including my pre-requisites. Then I talked to two friends, one who is a nurse, and I started thinking that an ADN/ASN might be the better route for me too. I'm married also with a 6 year old and I work full time so at some point I'm going to have to stop working. I figured I could do the ASN and start my prereqs in the next couple of months. Apply and be finished with prereqs by the time the 2013 fall semester comes around (thinking abt Georgia Perimeter now but still not 100% sure). From what my friends tell me with the ASN and BSN once you finish nursing school you qualify to take the NCLEX for both and if you pass you'll be an RN regardless making about the same in pay. On the other hand if you want to be in management/administration, Nurse Practitioner for example then you must have the BSN first. Plus it will bring in bigger bucks being an NP or administrator. But to be able to finish in 2 years and start working/getting that experience is great and if you decide to go back it would be as an RN to BSN which is like 1-2 more years. Can't beat that I don't think.

I would love to hear what you decided and where you are with your prerequisites.

Hi, well where am I at now? I am in my last semester of pre-req's (for all ASN courses, my associate's school requires more than technical schools for their ASN, and I have also completed several BSN pre-req's).

I am waiting on my acceptance letter, but I feel confident I'll get in. I have a 4.0 and 95th percentile TEAS V.

I am going with the associate's degree because it's best for me and my family.

When I originally wrote this message I was finally beginning to feel confident in my abilities, and wanting to go to the best school out there because I had the grades for it.

However, when I really took the time to think about the time commitments for full time nursing school, and all the courses I still needed to complete, I knew I had to go the associate's route.

It will just work better for my family, and that is my # 1 priority.

I got sort of caught up in "my grades are so good, why should I settle for anything other than the best?" Then I needed to bring it down a notch to reality! There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with an ASN program! That's what I wanted from the very beginning of this journey anyway. Plus, the way I am looking at it is....I might get into nursing and love it, then get my BSN, and Nurse Practitioner degree....or I might get into nursing, find something else in the medical field I enjoy, and decide to get my bachelor's in that. Who knows, but I am very happy where I'm at right now. I should have my letter by the end of this month, I cannot wait. I know that nursing school will be hard, but I really cannot imagine life in a 5 day a week bsn program. I know it is wonderful for those that can do it, but I just cannot take that time away from the other things I need to be doing. The really nice thing is that when I go for my BSN, most of the courses can be taken online - which will work out great while working as a nurse.

Hi, well where am I at now? I am in my last semester of pre-req's (for all ASN courses, my associate's school requires more than technical schools for their ASN, and I have also completed several BSN pre-req's).

I am waiting on my acceptance letter, but I feel confident I'll get in. I have a 4.0 and 95th percentile TEAS V.

I am going with the associate's degree because it's best for me and my family.

When I originally wrote this message I was finally beginning to feel confident in my abilities, and wanting to go to the best school out there because I had the grades for it.

However, when I really took the time to think about the time commitments for full time nursing school, and all the courses I still needed to complete, I knew I had to go the associate's route.

It will just work better for my family, and that is my # 1 priority.

I got sort of caught up in "my grades are so good, why should I settle for anything other than the best?" Then I needed to bring it down a notch to reality! There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with an ASN program! That's what I wanted from the very beginning of this journey anyway. Plus, the way I am looking at it is....I might get into nursing and love it, then get my BSN, and Nurse Practitioner degree....or I might get into nursing, find something else in the medical field I enjoy, and decide to get my bachelor's in that. Who knows, but I am very happy where I'm at right now. I should have my letter by the end of this month, I cannot wait. I know that nursing school will be hard, but I really cannot imagine life in a 5 day a week bsn program. I know it is wonderful for those that can do it, but I just cannot take that time away from the other things I need to be doing. The really nice thing is that when I go for my BSN, most of the courses can be taken online - which will work out great while working as a nurse.

Which school did you end up choosing for your ASN? I am currently trying to pick between an ASN or a BSN program. Well actually I have decided to go for the ASN, but haven't pick which school to go to. I am a single mother with a 2 year old and for me, the ASN program will work the best in my situation. However, picking a school has been challenging. There are so many programs now here in GA! Any advice on your school of choice (for an ASN) and experience there would be greatly appreciated!

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Isnt that for the grad schools though?

Yes, it is. It's important to know that while no one can argue with Emory's BSN program being very prestigious, the U.S. News & World Report ranking is only for the graduate programs in Nursing.

Also, you guys may want to consider your ability to gain employment with an ADN, many hospitals in Georgia are seeking magnet status, and that means you need a BSN minimum to get hired. Just something to think about as you plan for your education.

I'm new to allnurses and I'm located in Georgia looking to get into Chamberlin college of nursing here. I had a quick question on how to find out what online public school will chamberlin accept? Does anyone know how I can find a list of online high schools that Chamberlain will accept?

I just want to throw this out there. From my research and talking to multiple other students, current nurses, faculty from multiple schools across the nation and state here is what I have come up with: When applying to nursing schools you should be more concerned about the NCLEX pass rate more than reputation. Verbatim from a DNP that works in Dallas, "I know Emory is where they sent the Ebola patients but I have never even heard about the prestige of their nursing program". Now I am by no means knocking Emory but unless you plan on working at Emory Healthcare or can afford it, I personally do not see any advantage of Emory over an other ACCREDITED public universities in Georgia that have a rather high NCLEX pass rate. My faculty members and nurses in clinical have told me multiple times that it is not about what school you went to but instead what you did while in school, the grades you made, did you pass the NCLEX, do you have faculty references, did you take time to introduce yourself in clinical. So to sum it up, start off looking into BSN programs (As it is becoming to harder to obtain new graduate jobs with anything less), NCLEX pass rates, cost and accreditation status.

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