Georgia graduates of Excelsior colleg

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I am a recent nursing graduate of Excelsior college. I would like to here from recent graduates on how and what you did to get license in Georgia. I am an Lpn with 13 years of dialysis experience , only a year in long-term and a year in hospital several years ago. Trying to decide should I waste time with 350 hrs preceptorship or should I just test in another state and work weekends or just work at a Va hospital . Or just submit application and see I pick up and not have to complete the hours. I really would like to continue in dialysis and Stay with my current company. Any feedback would be helpful

Any suggestions?

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wow there's a requirement for preceptorship now? None when I did it in 2004! Initially licensed in MN then applied for reciprocity to GA. Goof luck!

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Yep and it sucks lol.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

If you have no intentions of moving to another state, I would suggest that you go with Georgia's requirements. As an inexperienced RN, I dare say that no facility would give you a weekend position with no recent hospital experience to show. New grad RNs are in competition with new grad BSN-RNs.

Getting on with the VA is a time-consuming and grueling process...experienced or not. One VA manager told me back in August that the VAs here were in the process of transitioning to magnet status, which means BSN-RNs only.

Ultimately, the choice is yours. But I think your best bet would be a direct approach. Fortunately for me, I had been working in the hospital for 7 years exclusively at the time I applied with EC. I had to battle with the BON anyway because they wanted me to do 700 hours as if I had NO nursing experience. I ended up doing ZERO hours by the time the smoke cleared.

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