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You can do it if that's what you want. I bombed ANP twice and passed on the 3rd try. Never failed another class again and never had much of a hard time in nursing school once I was in. IMO it was the institution that made the course exceedingly difficult to weed out applicants. I did however take the 3rd attempt at another school... Whether or not it is an option to go to another school is really your decision as a backup plan

northside is good, but the dollar per hour pay wasn't as good as piedmont. the retirement plan though is better at northside.

northside also takes ASN. I had an offer there too

Piedmont definitely takes ADN. I have an ASN which is the same thing and I got hired on.

The drug calc is easy if you can follow a given formula for insulin sliding scale dosages. A guy that was recently hired on my floor said the tests weren't bad and they give you a retry on the math one if you don't pass the first time, but you have to wait a certain amount of time before retaking.

bsn is not required. just make sure you're "safe" and you don't need to worry so much

yes you get a first, second and third pick

If you will work part time on weekends Piedmont is hiring on the ortho floor

You can try for PRN, wellstar cobb, LTAC, SNF, or grady.

I have an ASN and I went through the residency at piedmont. I'm currently still employed by them and my clinical manager is also an ASN grad.

With ALIFs ice chips the whole first day because you don't want to risk a paralytic ileus with little to no bowel sounds. At temps of 99 I reinforce IBE use before giving them tylenol

I heard from a guy that finished his residency that he did 2 12's on the floor, an 8 on the floor and 1 day of classroom per week for 12 or 13 weeks. Hope that helps...

I forgot, that turn around was with live scan instead of the old ink print way

They are both probably about the same. The lag is with the paperwork/filing. I did my nclex in CA as well as GA and they took forever with the paperwork. Allow about 3 months.

At the hospital I work at, we don't have to speak any spanish at all. We can call language services and they will bring up a phone that will automatically connect to a live translator (and the phone covers a wide variety of languages, it gets preprogrammed before they bring it up). The live translator doesn't always connect instantly. Sometimes you wait and listen to the phone ring a bit before someone else picks up. Also the person from language services does speak spanish, so they can take care of any immediate things you have to say or questions you have for the patient. I'm nearly positive that you do not get paid more for being bilingual. At least I didn't.