Moving to Atlanta, GA - Where should I go to school for RN?

[nur4674]

Hi everyone,

I'm from FL. I graduated from the University of Florida a few years ago. My husband just got a promotion and we will have to move to Atlanta, GA over the next few months. I've submitted my applications for nursing schools in Miami so that I could start in August, but now everything has changed.

I would truly appreciate some help from this lovely community.

I want to be an RN.

Which schools should I look into around the Atlanta area?

I know Emory is on the list, but lets face it that bar is pretty high. I'll aim for it but I think a back up plan would be wise. I want to speak to locals that will steer me away from an overpriced private school with high drop out rates.

I'm open to AS or BSN programs. I just need to start working and I know I'll be able to work my way up.

I've done some research online, but it's good to hear from the people.

EX. University of Florida has a good reputation for getting students into NP schools after they were done with their RN, but they didn't have good bedside manner so they usually weren't hired by local hospitals.

I want to go to a school that has a good reputation and that has a high retention rate.

Thank you all so much

[Kmd7175]

I am an RN with an ASN with specialty in OB. I have worked the majority of my 10 years in OB. I have recently in last three years been requested to assist with some legal cases as a nurse expert. After loosing my father to poor hospital care in magnet hospital and myself having poor care its been sort of a passion God has placed in me to help become an advocate through my experiences somewhere in a hospital, law office, or within state to advocate for better care for our pts and to speak out for all the nurses that strive for excellent care but due to the overwhelming loads is making mistakes and sentinel events more and more common. I am struggling at where to start. Do I further my education and if so what and where are the best options to tie these passions together. I love my profession and it saddens me to see the shape it is becoming and nothing being done about it. Does anyone have any ideas? I am sending out to legal offices in my area but not sure if there are other ideas that you can suggest to me. Losing a parent to the same profession that you are in and love, when should have never happened is hard to swallow each day at the bedside. It makes you question everything. The stress it has caused knowing the one life I wanted to save (my father ) I was unable to but all my assumptions were right but just never paid attention to as I was labeled "just a baby nurse". My father passed away post op from obstruction that he had every risk for, three requests for abdominal scan made and all denied because I was not what the residents/professionals felt was an adult nurse. Because of that alone, and the importance of my oath, I have made it my passion now to speak out for others when they are not heard to help put an end to this mess. nurses are a special breed and we love to care but the world is making it harder to do our jobs without shortcuts... Please let me know if anyone has any ideas that may help.

[Kmd7175]

I am an RN with an ASN with specialty in OB. I have worked the majority of my 10 years in OB. I have recently in last three years been requested to assist with some legal cases as a nurse expert. After loosing my father to poor hospital care in magnet hospital and myself having poor care its been sort of a passion God has placed in me to help become an advocate through my experiences somewhere in a hospital, law office, or within state to advocate for better care for our pts and to speak out for all the nurses that strive for excellent care but due to the overwhelming loads is making mistakes and sentinel events more and more common. I am struggling at where to start. Do I further my education and if so what and where are the best options to tie these passions together. I love my profession and it saddens me to see the shape it is becoming and nothing being done about it. Does anyone have any ideas? I am sending out to legal offices in my area but not sure if there are other ideas that you can suggest to me. Losing a parent to the same profession that you are in and love, when should have never happened is hard to swallow each day at the bedside. It makes you question everything. The stress it has caused knowing the one life I wanted to save (my father ) I was unable to but all my assumptions were right but just never paid attention to as I was labeled "just a baby nurse". My father passed away post op from obstruction that he had every risk for, three requests for abdominal scan made and all denied because I was not what the residents/professionals felt was an adult nurse. Because of that alone, and the importance of my oath, I have made it my passion now to speak out for others when they are not heard to help put an end to this mess. nurses are a special breed and we love to care but the world is making it harder to do our jobs without shortcuts... Please let me know if anyone has any ideas that may help.