GPC Spring 2016 Graduates

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Here is a place that we could start discussing the next part of our journey in nursing school.

Has anyone read the book they suggested in our acceptance letters? I bought it off amazon and I am excited to read it!!!

Keri

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Hi. Thanks for doing this :)

I plan on buying it for sure. Anything to help with being successful on our nursing exams, I'm ALL about lol

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Thank you for starting this page! I have been picking my friends brain today; she graduated about 7 years ago from GPC. She is now the Clinical Manager of the ICU. She made it through with 2 kids, and she promises we will all do wonderfully :)

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StephanieHawley Thanks so much for sharing that information. It made my day :) she did well! Did she eventually do her bachelors since she's a manager? Good for her!

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I am an over planner, so I am really anxious about not knowing our schedule. It is nice to have a general idea though. I wonder if we will get that information in May. I know the acceptance letter said we would receive more information at that point.

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She will be graduating with her Masters in July! She now has 5 children and went through about a year as a single mother! She said we will be very busy and will have a lot of studying. Her advice was to study away from home, school or library, as much as possible, because we all now that when we are home the studying quality just isn't the same!

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Pbjclan, I am too! I'm not sure if you saw this but it is another posters 1st semester breakdown.

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Thanks Stephanie! That definitely helps give a good picture. I wonder how often we will do clinicals in the first semester.

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Thanks kjewel36 for starting the thread. Being accepted is both exciting and scary, but I am willing to do all what it takes to get the license, including watching grace anatomy LOL.

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I have read that clinicals add every other week, bug I'm truly not sure? I am in the Link nursing class and I will ask Mrs. Crawford if she could give me more information on what our schedule will look like!

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Hey you guys, I think this page was a great idea! I wanted to see if I could get a few opinions about something. Right now, I am currently working and living in Macon, Ga as an Insurance Agent for Geico. I am a CNA but I haven't worked as one in over a year or so. I'm wondering if I should try to get a job as a CNA at one of the hospitals in Atlanta. My plan would be to work overnight 7pm until 7am. That might be a little easier than trying to maintain a job in Macon and go to school in Clarkston. What do you guys think? Geico is a great job and it pays really well. I could see myself working at Geico for a while, but my dream is to be a nurse, and I'm not sure how that will play out if I attempt to live in Macon and just drive to and from school each day. I even thought about moving to McDonough or Stockbridge so that I would be halfway to work and halfway to school... I just don't even know! I'm thinking the CNA idea is great though,It might even guarantee me a job once I graduate. I'm just hoping I could find a decent job that would pay enough for me to at least pay the bills while I'm in nursing school.

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Nursing school is only held at the Clarckston Capmus, which would probably be about a 2 hour drive! I live in rockdale county, south end, and it takes me 35-40 minutes to get to campus, that's with no traffic. I think a move would be very wise in your case. That drive would get very very old and it could be vital study time you'd be missing :)

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