mimiclack

Thank you!!!! I feel soooooo relieved now!!!! Lol

I was reading this so much while I was studying and just wanted to post my own experience. First of the forums were both helpful and hurtful. There was definitely some good advice and ideas which was helpful. The hurtful part came with the people posting that they studied a lot and didn't pass, definitely lowered my confidence and put fear in me! . So here was my experience... I graduated from Georgia State University in December of 2016. I kind of lollygagged and took my time with signing up and studying. I'll I didn't really seriously study until 2 weeks before my exam date. I did the Barkley Review home study--which is AMAZING. It was seriously so good. It's like he knew all of my weakest areas or the types of things that I get confused and get broke it all down for me. His review was honestly the only source I used to study. I have Like and Fitzgerald's review books but I didn't really use them to study for the boards. After listening to all of the CDs (which I took notes on the review guide as he lectured) I went back and reviewed everything in the review guide and took extra notes on an additional notebook of areas I was weak in. I did a couple apea practice quizzes before finishing the review and made high 60s... after I finished the review and studied I took the predictor test and made a 76 which predicts that you'll pass. That boosted my confidence. The exam itself was similar to the apea tests, I feel. Some questions were challenging and between 2 answers and some were straightforward. It took me about 2.5 hours to answer all 150 questions. I'm so ecstatic that I passed!!! If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask!!

Kennesaw State University is a good nursing program and about 15 minutes from Marietta. It is a University though and you would not be able to start in the Spring (you have to apply about a year in advance). Here is there website: WellStar School of Nursing Chattahoochee tech has an LPN program, that is located right in Marietta, and then there are some bridge programs at other schools from LPN to RN (you could do this in the event that you do not want to wait until next year to start nursing school). Their website is Chattahoochee Technical College - One College, Multiple Campuses, Community Focused The best bet for you would probably be Georgia perimeter college, they offer an associates degree program for nursing. The college has 6 different locations in the Atlanta area, so I'm not quite sure which one or ones offer the RN program but here is the website and you can further contact them for more information : GPC Nursing Good luck and all the best!