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I believe the nurse-patient ratio on the floor is around 5:1, but I've seen it as bad as 7:1. It's in the older part of the hospital if I recall correctly, so the rooms are a little bit of a tight squeeze. I think the floor also does oncology patient...

futureRN2015, I was interviewing for CVICU and was told they were no longer accepting interviews after the group before me finished. I was pretty bummed and they offered for me to interview with MICU/SICU or neuro ICU. My first choice was MICU at tha...

I interviewed with critical care yesterday and was offered a position in the progressive care unit today. I turned it down, so hopefully one of you guys will be offered the spot!

I also have an interview there this week, so I'm not really sure about how much they pay! I know Rockdale typically pays nurses a little more, and they start new grads around $23. I've been involved at Newton for around 5 years and can tell you that ...

Newton Medical is a small community facility with only three floors and nothing too ground-breaking in terms of technology. 3 floors, typical units (med surg, tele, micu, pacu, er, etc.). That doesn't make it a bad hospital, though. The staff is wond...

Rockdale is 21-23 base pay depending on the unit from what I've heard

Piedmont and Rockdale still have their residency applications open

@breezy7 I applied in January to the Clifton campus and haven't been scheduled for an interview yet.

No, they want to be an L&D nurse but are having trouble getting interviews for the specialty, so they branched out to med/surg. L&D apparently very rough competition with limited available slots from what I've heard from my cohort!

Was it for Atlanta? They have multiple campuses so it could have been for Fayetteville. A friend of mine just interviewed at ATL for Med Surg today so the ball is starting to roll!

I've been told that Piedmont and Emory are the slowest in the Atlanta area to get their process rolling. Many of Piedmont's residency applications are still open, so I'm guessing it'll be several weeks before they start making calls. No one I know ha...

I suggest using ATI's RN Adult Medical Surgical Nursing Edition 9.0 review module book from the content mastery series. It gives you the bare-bones info for what you need to know in each med-surg topic along with a lot of NCLEX-style practice questio...

Hey there, I'm a senior at GBCN and pretty much everything meeep said is 100% accurate. My class started out around 140, but I believe we've dropped down to about 130 or so. The class before us was a bit smaller, but it still seems to stay around tha...

Just search for the "GBCN Class of 2016" group and request to be added. The cover photo of the group should be members of the senior class holding signs that spell out "GBCN" in black and orange. I believe we got our financial aid award letters in mi...

Congrats :) Welcome to GBCN!

You'll find out mostly everything you need at orientation, don't worry too much :) Just make sure you are BLS certified through the American Heart Association, your titers and vaccines are up to date, and you've had a PPD done (and chest x-ray if it ...

State will not take your nursing courses and you will have to restart within the program. I'm fairly sure this hasn't changed since I was there a year ago. So, yes, you can transfer, but you will have to start over.

Don't stress about registration, it's impossible to not get your nursing classes. You'll find out which classes to register for at orientation, most likely, or you'll receive an email with instructions :)

Last summer, we were able to choose which orientation we attended, but we had to sign up in advance because they can only accept a certain number of students per orientation. I would double check with Mrs. Flemons or Bailey about it, because I know t...

I actually just shot you an e-mail :)

A lot of us are paying for part of our tuition out of pocket or with loans. Some of us have HOPE, which covers a small portion, and I know pretty much everyone gets an equalization grant worth around ~$500. Many of us, myself included, get need-based...

Just to confirm what meeep said, faculty or GBANS will set up the Facebook group for you, and you can take your CPR course anywhere as long as it's BLS and American Heart Association certified. The card will be white and blue with the AHA symbol on i...

A&P is a lab course, and some nursing schools in Georgia will not accept online lab courses. I would take it in the classroom setting just to be safe.

Professor Kamp will either give you information at orientation or during the first week of classes about nurse packs, since she's dependent on the company that ships them. And yes, the other professors don't mind if you record at all! They keep a tab...

You'll receive instructions on how to order your nurse pack, which includes all the medical supplies you need for campus clinical and validations. I believe the first semester pack was $75 if you ordered it early at the discounted rate. You also need...