I aM floored. I just received notice from GA Board of Nursing that they denied the endorsement of my MN RN license because I did not meet clinical practice requirements . When I called the board, they transferred me to a their Legal Nurse Consultant who stated that effective July 1, 2008 GA would no longer endorse RN license from Excelsior College students with no previous RN experience. She suggested that I go to my licensed state and work for a while then try again, but she could not give me a time frame.
Has anyone else experienced this. I thought we should at least have gotten some sort of notice/warning before this type of rule be adopted by the board. I am going to file a motion for reconsideration using an Attorney. Before I entered Excelsiors program I called GA Board to verify acceptance. I had been accepted to a traditional LPN to RN bridge program; I could have been almost finished their too. I am so sad right now. I have been crying for two days. I think I will need to see my doctor for Zoloft.
I have been an LPN for over 13 years doing Med/Surg for at least 10. I work on a hospital unit right now. THIS IS SO UNFAIR!!!:banghead:
Holy crap!!!!!! I spoke with the executive officer at the boards, she actually called me back!!!!! I am licensed in the state of georgia. She said it will be posted when the attorney general returns on monday and i'll have my license in the mail shortly there after. Omg!!! I am so excited!!!!!
I am sure the post is for real. I am the lab coordinator for the nursing and allied health program where I work. A state technical college and I hear it everyday. The instructors are encouraging their students to use us as an example for projects and writing campaigns. I feel like Custer every time I enter my work space.
Hmmm.....I wonder if they have a problem with our 90% pass rate on the NCLEX, since EC beats more than half of the nursing programs in Georgia when it comes to taking the NCLEX.
This is sounding more and more like defamation of character, discrimination, slander and libel. And attorneys live to take those types of cases....
Funny, when I was in my nursing program and I wrote a paper, I had to back everything I used in my paper with references and proof that the statements were truthful...perhaps maybe they need to learn to do there here in Georgia, as well....
Sorry,learn to do THAT here in Georgia...I had to rush out the door to take DH to work and didn't have time to reread what I had written......lol
Here is what really gets at me is that I see the labs they do and I see how the lab instructor has the students put checks in the checkoff box and then watch them do the skill as a group. Once they do that then the lab instructor signs their lab check off form.
The other thing is that I have talked with these students about their so call superior clinical experiences. One group states that they just sit around and go over charts, others say they get to do some patient care but they do not have a clinical sheet that requires them to do a set number of skills. Example: in Corpsman school we were required to take care of a set number of patients with certain conditions, we had to give so many IM injections, so many SQ injections. We had to start at least a minimum number of IV's and push so many meds. The list goes on, but they are not required to do that. They can go two years, and some have, and never start an IV or push an IV med. It is determined by what is happening on the floor when they do clinicals.
I lost count of the number of IV's, foley's, dressing changes and various drug adminstration I have done over 20 years. Now they have the audacity to look down their nose at me. Not to mention as a paramedic now I have to assess the patient on my own in adverse conditions, come to decision as to what is going on with the patient, come up with a treatment plan, stabilize the patient and supervise my partner. Yet once again I am not qualified to be a "Nurse" in Georgia. I ask you, who do you want caring for your family member when they come through that ER door?
To All the Georgia rn's to be I just wanted to tell you that I think that you are all awesome, and I admire your steadfastness in keeping up with your effort towards licensure in Georgia. You all will definitely be incredible nurses!! Good luck in your fight I will be rooting for you as one of the last Californians to be licensed!! Good luck and God speed!!
Absolutely!! Before I became a nurse (TEN YEARS AGO!), I was a CNA, a phlebotomist, a respiratory therapist, an EKG technician and a BLS/ACLS instructor. In my phlebotomy class, I was required to do 500 venous sticks before I could work as a phlebotomist. I had to do 50 EKG's before being turned loose to do that on my own, and I had to teach 5 BLS and 5 ACLS classes observed before I could do it on my own. In my traditional nursing program, on my very FIRST day of clinicals, I put in a foley catheter on a patient with BPH, started two of his IV's, changed his surgical dressings (open wounds with Dakin's sol'n)and treated his brittle diabetes. Every day in my clinicals, we were expected to do full-on, no-holds-barred care, observed by our instructor or our nurse. I was in every department from med surg to ICU to the burn unit, and never as just an observer. I delivered a baby during my clinicals because nobody else was in the room (doc was on his way to the hospital and the nurses were all tied up in other rooms), and everything turned out great! I completed all of my clinicals with top grades. I was also a tutor of all of the health sciences for students at university while in nursing school.
In four other states, I have served as RN preceptor for new grads, coming out of their "traditional" programs, looking like deer caught in the headlights, afraid of their own shadow, most of the time just spouting stuff they had committed to memory without knowing how to apply it to their patients. There is a BIG difference between memorizing and actually knowing how to apply the knowledge appropriately.
The sad thing is, the students here are being discouraged from thinking for themselves and from thinking outside the box. It's as if they are programmed to spout the same things we are hearing from the powers-that-be and not doing any investigating of their own. It's like they are a collective, with one mind, doing all the thinking for them. Kind of like the Borg from 'Star Trek'.
Florence Nightingale was a free thinker. She did NOT follow the crowd and did not receive a "traditional" education. In fact, she educated herself, against her parents' and society's wishes! She did not look down on people who were considered below her societal status. In fact, she worked hard and long to improve the care for the poor and to give them better opportunities that extended well beyond their medical care into better sanitation and educational endeavors, helping the poor to help themselves.
She did not see herself as a deity or better than everyone else, in fact, she looked at herself as a servant of God to serve her fellow man, in spite of her affluent background.
And look at the impact she had on the world and on our lives!!
The fact that she was "non-traditional", well, I believe, knowing what we have all had to do to become nurses, she would have been an advocate for us....and she is looking at us, smiling, proud that there are still free thinkers in the world who are willing to step outside the box to help their fellow man. I think she would say, "Well done!"
I am so happy to hear the positive news! Congratulations to all of you!
Please keep on letting your voices be heard to the Ga. Board, the public, and the legislators, though. This is not over yet. They may endorse EC grads for now, but S. Cooper et all are still going to try to lock out EC grads in the future.
Thank you Terri. I can not tell you what relief I feel. My employer has been holding a RN position for me for almost a year now. I was really getting embarassed by my responses everytime I was asked "have you gotten your License" , "When will you get your License". It was a wonderful feeling Friday to call my boss and basically scream "I've been approved for endorsement" She nearly began crying with me.
rjlchef!!!congrats to you!!! i am a fellow georgia grad from ec hope to be in your shoes soon!!! best wishes to you a nd your new career as an rn in georgia!! there is hope!!!
. When I called the board, they transferred me to a their Legal Nurse Consultant who stated that effective July 1, 2008 GA would no longer endorse RN license from Excelsior College students with no previous RN experience. She suggested that I go to my licensed state and work for a while then try again, but she could not give me a time frame.
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i am a fellow georgia grad from ec hope to be in your shoes soon!!! best wishes to you a nd your new career as an rn in georgia!! there is hope!!!
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Amazing!! Congratulations!
Finally, hope for us all!!!