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Schools in the Atlanta area vary and can be very good to horrible. You'll need to look at school ratings for the area you're thinking of living in. Traffic is awful in the Metro area, so you need to take that into consideration when you're house hunt...

I work in a hospital in L&D and my resident program/orientation was 22 weeks long. Most of the units at my hospital have their residents in orientation for 12 weeks.

I work in L&D as an RN. We are required to sign up for 12 hours of call per month. We get paid a small amount for being on call and get callback pay (time and a half) if we get called in. My department is larger than yours and has more staff so w...

I work at a hospital in suburban Atlanta and we have an inclement weather policy. If a code white is called, staff is called and asked to come in before the storm hits or gets bad. You are expected to be at work for your scheduled shift(s). If you...

I am a new grad and started in L&D as a nurse in August. My residency will last 22 weeks. This is in a metro Atlanta hospital.

Our school (in GA) had us apply for the GA BON, apply for NCLEX, pay all fees, do fingerprinting, background check, everything in early April. That way, everything would be done well before the school sent paperwork to Pearsonvue. Our graduation was...

You can ask your advisor this question when you are getting advised the day of orientation. I think that you have to take med micro no later than your first semester of the second year but I could be wrong. Honestly, I'd take it as soon as possible...

They're pretty strict about attendance both years. If you miss clinical, there will be makeup work. First year's makeup work was bad, second year's was completely out of control awful. We missed a day of clinical for Med/Surg because school was ca...

Working is definitely doable, especially first year. I worked full-time (3 12 hour shifts a week) through both years of nursing school. I thought it was hard first year and I'm sure it was but it was very, very hard second year, with having clinica...

Nikki, Trying to get work in the hospital is a very good idea. If you work as a PCT at NGHS you are pretty much guaranteed a job after you graduate. New grad jobs aren't super easy to get so getting your foot in the door is a great idea. NGHS, Nor...

Dupton, please don't worry about it. I'm willing to answer any questions, as I know how scary and hard it is.

You're right, Habersham instead of Chestatee! For some reason, I thought you went to Chestatee!

Signing up for a mentor is a very good idea. I signed up for a mentor first year and the person never contacted me. I didn't feel comfortable contacting them since they never contacted me. I unofficially mentored sk8inghunny (from here on allnurses...

I got the drawstring pants instead of the elastic ones, as I don't like elastic. Our campus had a private FB group and our class had a public FB group and both were very helpful. Clinical sites for first year are NGHS in Gainesville and Chestatee. ...

If you have the time, you should try to get up to Dahlonega on a different day than orientation to get your ID and parking pass, as the orientation starts at 8am. At orientation, you sit in the big auditorium and you are introduced to the first year...

You don't have to wear your uniforms to class, just to clinical. My first year of school, we had about 7 weeks of clinical and started about half-way through the first semester. Last year, they changed it so the students did all of their check-off ...

I just graduated from UNG in May. I had to do a return on my uniform (both pants and tops) and had to pay shipping for the return. I'm not sure if they changed that in the 2 years since I ordered mine but just wanted to share that. I've never had a...

A friend of mine got accepted in July the year I was accepted, so there's always hope, ladies.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd go up or down in sizes when ordering but wanted to share what my experience was ordering. I was on the bigger size (have lost quite a bit of weight since then) and was big busted with a very short torso but long legs an...

Have you gone through orientation for the school (INTRO)? The reason why I'm asking is that I wasn't able to register for any classes my first semester before I did INTRO. The Nursing department will sign you up for your nursing classes but you wil...

I probably went overboard in my NCLEX prep but didn't want to take any chances of not being prepared. I took the Hurst Review which I thought was a great content review and had several NCLEX books that I used. A friend who had taken the Sylvia Rayf...

About the uniforms, make sure you order them with plenty of time to return them, as their sizing is strange. I measured myself and ordered the uniform according to their guidelines and had to return the tops and bottoms. The tops were so snug that ...

You don't get to choose which time or day you go to lab, unfortunately. They divided us up alphabetically my first year. We started with lab on Friday and 2nd semester, switched to lab on Wednesday. I'm pretty sure that I kept the same time both s...

The Professionalism class is not a requirement for nursing students. It was offered and anyone who wanted to take it could. I chose not to. I was working full-time, a single mom and had more on my plate than I could handle and couldn't add anythin...

I've mentioned in previous posts that I was waitlisted 2 years ago and got my letter at the end of May. My friend was also waitlisted and got her acceptance letter sometime in July, so there is still hope. Good luck!