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Anyone who has completed the George Brown Practical Nursing program, did you find you were able to work while attending school? I'm hoping to continue on to bridge-RN and wanted to get a sense of what to prepare for, especially financially. Thanks!

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I'm in my last semester of my GBC PN program, and it is NOT advisable to work part-time whilst in this program; I didn't work and my GPA is much higher when compared to my classmates who did work. You will be at school basically everyday for the first year, in your 3rd semester you might have 1 day off, so if you do plan on working work on the weekends only. A lot of student took a LOA from work in their third semester to get their GPA up for the bridging program, I got accepted into GBC's RPN to RN bridging program on Feb 1st, but it definitely took a lot of hard work and I wouldn’t have got accepted into the RN-bridging if I worked.

The program coordinators say that if you do plan on working keep it under 15 hours/week, so hopefully this helps.

For reference my GPA is in the low 80's range.

Financial wise, all of the books are apart of your tuition and will be made available to you online, so you won't need to buy any physical books unless you want the physical copies. And my Osap grants covered my tuition, so if you are provided with osap you might not have to pay back anything if your grant covers your tuition. the school also gives out different bursaries but you need to apply for them on time.

Most of the teachers at GBC are kind and they actually want to see their students succeed. In-terms of tips, study what is stated in your course outline, that's it; I wish I knew that from the beginning but literally everything that you will be tested on in each course is listed in that course outline; so if you study everything that is listed in those outlines then I don't see why your GPA wouldn't be high. Also remember to give yourself a break, semester 1&2 are the hardest material wise but if you pace yourself you'll get through it! Also remember to keep yourself motivated by remembering  why you want to become a nurse and hold onto that because in this program you will cry and you will want to give up but keep pushing through, cause it will get easier.

But yeah hopefully this helps, if you do need to buy a physical textbook it might be the anatomy one and its about $160 (cause you might need the activation key), and I'll try to answer your other questions if you have anymore and good luck! If you got into GBC for RPN then you can definitely get into a bridging program!

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On 2/13/2021 at 7:26 AM, FutureRN.2024 said:

I'm in my last semester of my GBC PN program, and it is NOT advisable to work part-time whilst in this program; I didn't work and my GPA is much higher when compared to my classmates who did work. You will be at school basically everyday for the first year, in your 3rd semester you might have 1 day off, so if you do plan on working work on the weekends only. A lot of student took a LOA from work in their third semester to get their GPA up for the bridging program, I got accepted into GBC's RPN to RN bridging program on Feb 1st, but it definitely took a lot of hard work and I wouldn’t have got accepted into the RN-bridging if I worked.

The program coordinators say that if you do plan on working keep it under 15 hours/week, so hopefully this helps.

For reference my GPA is in the low 80's range.

Financial wise, all of the books are apart of your tuition and will be made available to you online, so you won't need to buy any physical books unless you want the physical copies. And my Osap grants covered my tuition, so if you are provided with osap you might not have to pay back anything if your grant covers your tuition. the school also gives out different bursaries but you need to apply for them on time.

Most of the teachers at GBC are kind and they actually want to see their students succeed. In-terms of tips, study what is stated in your course outline, that's it; I wish I knew that from the beginning but literally everything that you will be tested on in each course is listed in that course outline; so if you study everything that is listed in those outlines then I don't see why your GPA wouldn't be high. Also remember to give yourself a break, semester 1&2 are the hardest material wise but if you pace yourself you'll get through it! Also remember to keep yourself motivated by remembering  why you want to become a nurse and hold onto that because in this program you will cry and you will want to give up but keep pushing through, cause it will get easier.

But yeah hopefully this helps, if you do need to buy a physical textbook it might be the anatomy one and its about $160 (cause you might need the activation key), and I'll try to answer your other questions if you have anymore and good luck! If you got into GBC for RPN then you can definitely get into a bridging program!

Very informative, thanks.

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@FutureRN.2024

Hi, I have had my video interview completed this week for GBC PN admission. Would you mind sharing how long did it take for you to get the offer after interview?

I got an offer from Fleming college PN program, which will expire next week. If I accept that offer now, does it mean that GB won't give me offer even if I qualify the video interview?

Problem is if I wait for GB's decision more than 1 week, Fleming might close my offer and, if for some reasons, GB doesn't send me the offer I will have no PN program for May'21 start.

What would you suggest on my situation? Thank you.

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