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Hello all! I will be graduating in May and I have been absolutely blessed to have TWO job offers on my table. These are both with a major hospital system, one in "the big house" and one in a community hospital owned by the hospital system. One on a medical short stay unit (basically medical unit for 24-72hr) and one on cardiac acute care. I went into nursing school to go into labor and delivery, but am really not ready to go so niche yet. But I HAVE started this amazing love affair with cardiac nursing. But I would be so happy with the medical floor or any medical/surgical unit. Ugh, but cardiac nursing my first year! And surgical experience. So much yes! Type of nursing aside, there's the feel of the units. The cardiac floor seems hardcore, very down to business. The Medical floor has this amazing personable nurse manager who just radiates "I'm gonna support you hard while challenging you to be a better RN." Then there's little things that would impact the day to day. The Cardiac unit is at the "big house" where parking is a pain in the butt, you pay for parking passes, and you have to park and ride. The medical unit has free and ample parking. What do you all recommend? Is it truly the best to work on these medical floors before honing in on an area of specialty? Sorry for the long post. Brainstorming here!!

I received this email in my GTCC email account: "From the desk of Dr. Windham We understand the urgency of needing your class schedule as many of you need to make adjustments/arrangements to prepare for the fall semester. Due to changes in clinic sites and other factors, we have experienced delays and will have your schedules sent to you by Monday. We appreciate your patience and understanding."

Congrats! I guess someone didn't get their clinical requirements in on time.... June15 was the deadline.

It says that, but class times are clearly different. Not three weeks ago class times were the same, maybe it's a holdover.

I've heard clinical days get shifted around kinda late in the game because of the clinical venues, which can be really hard for people who work while in school (like me, ugh), and that some of the instructors seem very "cold." But... all ADN/BSN programs are pretty rough per what I've heard. Per WebAdvisor, at this time NUR111 has two sections. One meets Tuesday 8a-10:50a with labs the same time on Monday and Wednesday. The other section meets Tuesday 12p-2:50p with labs the same time Monday and WEdnesday. All Clinicals TBA. I hope we get some say in which section we enroll in. I'm sure some folks would prefer an 8am class but I work second shift (4p-230a) so I'd MUCH prefer to do the later section and only be completely sleep deprived for clinicals! HAH!

I'll be starting an ADN program in the Fall. I have all my prereqs, so it will just be NUR courses. I have one course in the Fall, lots of labs and clinicals, 8 credit hours I think. I'm planning on continuing to work as an IBCLC 2nd shift, three 10's per week, 1600-0230. This thread has been immensely helpful! I may go down to a 0.6 position and work two 12's when things get hairy with school. Thanks for all the input here!!

Keep the faith, y'all. You know several people are going to go elsewhere (I'm about to make a DCCC alternate very happy), and others will be unable to jump the admissions hoops! (Let's be real, a couple will fail the drug test hah!) Looking forward to meeting EVERYONE on this thread (Yes Including LamChop and StellaBells!) on May 7!

Wow, competitive year!! In the past I've heard of 36-38 being the lowest.

I got in too!! 48 points. Seats have to be reserved by March 29, and there's like 100 steps where alternates could be accepted, including Orientation on May 7, so don't sweat it. Alternate #2 is pretty good.

"Ranking Review" is when you sat down with Angela and they tallied your points

I heard from Davidson CC, they make you accept your seat with a week so I went ahead and did! But now I'm going to have to renege if I get into GTCC, which I Don't like doing but they give you such a short period of time! I hope we hear from GTCC soon.

Oh man that makes me feel good, JLS80! They said expect letters "mid-March" but who even knows what that means! I also applied to Davidson CCC, they just send an email out on the 12th. I kind of like getting a letter better, but I also like having an actual date! {FINGERS CROSSED!}

OK I did my MAR last week!! 48 points. Apparently we'll be notified mid-March.

Hi there! I think I'll have 49 points for GTCC. I got a 90 on my TEAS (WHAT?!) so it really helped. I'm applying to DCCC too, with I think 14/16 but their system is vastly different.