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  1. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Is that Manatee CC posting a solid 72.53% NCLEX-RN pass rate, with one graduating class coming in at 68.85%? Isn't that your school, Baldee? Talk about your "irreversible downward trends". EC had a...

  2. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. The trend has been for several states to stop licensing new EC graduates because of the lack of "clinical learning" in their program. Some...

  3. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    SB-49 was totally changed to a bill involving pharmacists and immunosuppressive medications. Sen Hawkins, SB-49's sponsor, then signed HB-475 as a Senate co-sponsor, and it was revised to its current...

  4. Emergency Room NPs?

    Pmdc replied to CoolhandHutch's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The Emory University ENP program is actually an FNP program with a dual concentration in FNP/ENP. Although there's no certification for ENP, the FNP seems to serve their grads well, and I've talked to...

  5. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    I didn't notice that. I've known a couple of RTs that were EC RNs and they are very good. If the Governor signs HB-475, maybe we could convince a legislator to sponsor a bill next session to include...

  6. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    For licensure by endorsement: (B) If graduated from a nontraditional nursing education program, have practiced nursing as a registered professional nurse in a health care facility for at least one...

  7. Texas Tech and Excelsior

    Pmdc replied to MsCrescentCity's topic in Online Distance Learning

    What leads you to think that they wouldn't accept it? All schools that I have seen requirements for RN to BSN stated that the school where the ASN was awarded must have been a regionally accredited...

  8. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    If you have a year or more experience in another state, then none of the other stuff should even matter. You should just be required to file your paperwork and endorse right in. This business of...

  9. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    I hope it doesn't come to that type of arrangement. A new grad shouldn't be having to call or run around the city looking for a preceptor when the state is the one who wants to change the system....

  10. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Wow, now that is

  11. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Good question. It seems to me that if the state institutes this as a requirement, then they should be the ones to make sure it's available to you. I picture something like a preceptor program designed...

  12. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    You're right, SB 49 now only mentions pharmacists. I read over HB 475 again. It doesn't exclude paramedics, but it does say that if you enroll and/or graduate from a non-traditional program after the...

  13. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Funny she has time to write in to her local neighborhood paper, but she has yet to answer a single e-mail from a tax-paying Georgia RN wanting to discuss this issue. After seeing how she's handled...

  14. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    That document from the Board of Regents actually sounds pretty encouraging. If Georgia has a problem with EC's methods, then they should say so and then provide supporting evidence. Then, figure out a...

  15. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Well, this is what we're up against. I have no ill will towards the poster. I simply ask that they open their minds, and spend a little time researching the program before you judge it based on...

  16. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    I sent a letter to the AJC in response to Keeton's. It's a lot longer than they say they usually publish, but it's hard to get all of the information out to people in 150 words when they've already...

  17. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Well it definitely looks like they are authorized to approve candidates for licensure on an individual basis. Will they? I hope so. I think they like adding extra clauses to legislation that say...

  18. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

  19. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    I faxed my letter to most everyone on the H&HS Committee last night. Of those who didn't provide a fax number, I sent an e-mail. I also sent it to the Speaker, Lt. Governor, and Governor. I am an...

  20. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    It may be a scary thought to some, but apparently not to Cooper and Keeton. Keeton said in the AJC that losing the EC grads would not affect the nursing shortage in Georgia. Okay, take your current...

  21. EC info from North Carolina BON

    Pmdc replied to bnc1143's topic in Online Distance Learning

    "lately major NC healthcare systems are not hiring EC grads" I've heard this kind of thing several times before. It always seems to be a case where they can't or won't provide the names of specific...

  22. ENP programs

    Pmdc replied to camjones's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    With Emory, you take the FNP exam. Much of your ER clinicals are at Grady in

  23. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    I guess Sharon Cooper's answer would be: "You don't!" It really gives me a headache to read all of the proposed legislation, but it appears that if this passes, then everything gained in SB 49 might...

  24. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    Pmdc replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    You can follow its progress here:

  25. ENP programs

    Pmdc replied to camjones's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Oh yeah. Guess I should have mentioned that. Emory's is a FNP program with an emergency nurse practitioner concentration. Here's a link to their site:...