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Eflr: I think you would be fine to work part time for the first year of nursing school at NGCSU - a lot of people did. The first semester of the first year is only Fundamentals and Nutrition and class only meets two half days a week and the last hal...

I graduated from NGCSU one year ago and I loved it!! To answer your specific questions: 1. Everywhere I interviewed told me that they love North Georgia graduates. My first job was in Mother/Baby at Northside and they hired four of us at once. 2. ...

Congrats on your acceptance :balloons: !! I'm very sorry I didn't respond to your private message back in November. After graduation, I took a VERY long break from the computer and then over the holidays, my computer crashed and I just got around t...

Hi Paul: I am a recent nursing school graduate (last May) and I live in Alpharetta. Hospitals in this area pay new graduates around $20-22 per hour. I have worked at Northside Hospital for the past year, but also have classmates that work in all of...

No, I'm sorry, I don't feel that way at all. I enjoy reading posts on this forum and I have learned alot over the past three years by doing so. I began reading and posting as a nursing student and now I am a "working" nurse. Am I an "experienced n...

I graduated from NGCSU on May 13th, mailed my paperwork on May 15th and got an ATT on May 18th. I'm taking the test on June 8th!! Quite a few people in my class already have a test date, but there are still some waiting on their ATT. One of our cl...

Gansu: I know exactly what you are feeling. I LOVED doing my prereqs at GPC. I adored my micro teacher, made great friendships at the Lawrenceville Campus and I also talked often with the nursing advisor at that campus. I was thrilled when I got m...

My school uses ATI. We had to take a computerized ATI test at the end of each semester. We took one for Fundamentals, OB, Peds, Med/Surg, and Psych. Each of these tests counted for 10% of our course grade!! The last week of nursing school, we had...

Nurse Bunky: Congratulations:balloons: !!! I have been following your story for a couple of years and even though I don't know you, I am so proud of your accomplishments!! We have had similar stories, coming from GPC (only I got out before you did!!...

I am begging you guys to please listen to the students who are currently attending GPC and exercise all of your options!!! Today is one of the happiest days of my life - I just took my last final in nursing school and I KNOW that I'm graduating next...

Hey everyone! I totally remember the feeling of waiting for that letter!! I have no idea if GPC has changed their timetable for letters since I was accepted, but I thought I would write just to let you know when I received mine! I was accepted to G...

Sweet tooth: You know you can't please everyone, so I'm sure there are some with complaints about NGCSU, but I've never met anyone who is unhappy. We do have some stressful moments in our program - this week alone we have taken 6 computerized ATI te...

You had to have been chatting with one of my classmates from GPC.....because that is what it is like on my end!!!!!! Beannurse: You are so right!! I was chatting with a GPC student. I just didn't want to mention the program because I didn't want to...

Blessone Sorry, they really don't take into consideration where you live. For example, I live one exit from Northside Forsyth Hospital, but they sent me to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville for Med/Surg. However, you can be somewhat a...

Our pinning ceremony is in the evening and at a local church. The women are wearing black dresses or pantsuits and the men are wearing dark suits with ties! We are following the same dress code of the class graduating before us and I think it made ...

Blessone: NGCSU has a great financial aid department. I found them to be very helpful. I actually applied for and got the Georgia Service Cancelable loan. With this loan, I don't have to work for any certain hospital - I just don't have to pay it ...

Hey everyone! I just got home from a very LONG day at Dahlonega! Two oral presentations and two ATI computerized tests:barf01: !!! Almost done though! I'm trying to remember some of the unanswered questions I just read.... We do have to go to Da...

I just posted to someone about NGCSUs program. See the above post asking for NGCSU students to reply and let me know if you have any other questions! Congrats!!:balloons:

Congrats for being accepted to NGCSU:balloons: !! I think you will love it there! I am graduating from NGCSU in about two weeks !! I wrote you this long post and somehow it got lost and I dont have the energy to do it again, so I'm going to make it...

Sorry - I didn't mean to insult - I should have said SOME Dekalb schools are not so great!!:selfbonk: When I moved to the Atlanta area I just found out the hard way about the differences in school districts! The website is a great resource to help g...

I just finished my med-surg semester and I found Prentice Hall's "Medical-Surgical Reviews and Rationales" to be the most helpful. Our med-surg book is over 2,000 pages and next to impossible to read. The reviews and rationales book sums up the mos...

If you are moving to the Stone Mountain area - be sure to try to get into Gwinnett (Dekalb schools are not that great). Parkview and Brookwood districts are the ones that EVERYONE tries to move to when they live around there. Forsyth County schools...

I am about to start the LAST semester of the ASN program at North Georgia, so I can pretty much tell you what to expect. The LPNs have to take (and pass) a drug calculation test at the beginning of the summer. If they pass - during the summer they ...

Nursing school has by FAR been harder than my previous Bachelor's degree!! I definintely was one of those who "partied" my way through college the first time AND I had two part-time jobs!! I have had absolutely no social life in nursing school and ...

Atlanta 6789 is right about first year, but second year is a different story. We have clinicals two days a week right off the bat and class pretty much all day on the third day (this semester I'm 1 pm until 5 pm, next semester will be 8 am until 12 ...