Excelsior Nursing Program?

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Hello,

I am just wondering if anyone has any info regarding the Excelsior AAS/ADN nursing program. I had never heard of an online RN program (only RN-BSN/MSN programs). Is this program legit? It appears to be an expensive route, but wow it would be nice to be able to work a program around my schedule (I'm a stay-at-home mom).

Thanks for any info you may have. :)

I'm from Nevada and also attending Excelsior. CA won't accept for initial license but will they for ebdorsement?

Ncmomof2: thank you for your reply it really helps to have perspective from someone in the program. Do you find the provided study material is sufficient to learn the material and pass the exams? Also did you previously take micro and life span development? Thank you again for your advise it is really helping my decision to choose EC:)

The program.

Angela, If you go to Excelsior web site and navigate through to the location of what states accept Excelsiors degree immediately after successful completion of the NCLEX. What I found is 13 states ( except Florida just changed) require a range of clinical hours after becoming an RN. Some said 750hrs others were up to 2,000hrs. It seems many people are working in other states that don't require additional hours then transfer back. Hope this helps:)

Is that clinical hours as a student or as in a job?

She means as in a job. These states require paid work hours as an RN in another state to be considered for licensure. Really unfortunate if you look at it from a practical and historical standpoint. These same states never had unreasonable requirements in the past.

It is very unreasonable to require one of your residents to move out of state with all the expenses involved to work elsewhere to prove absolutely nothing.

I'm on their website and I can't find it. Is there a direct link?

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Try this: https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_College/School_Of_Nursing/Accreditation_and_Licensure/State_Board_Requirements

Where do you get pricey and nerve-wracking?

I've been banging out a test every few weeks. The total cost is going to come in under $6k. Where can you get your RN for less?!

Good point, Suesquatch.

Where do you get pricey and nerve-wracking?

I've been banging out a test every few weeks. The total cost is going to come in under $6k. Where can you get your RN for less?!

Good point, Suesquatch.

Specializes in Geriatrics.
:nono:My Advice on the Excelsior Nursing Program is - - - don't go there!!

It never occurred to me that one could get an ADN from an online program without a basic nursing clinical component. So when we hired a newly graduated nurse from Arizona, we assumed she had basic nursing skills. We just didn't know what questions to ask!! Over her months of orientation, it became apparent that she was unable to demonstrate basic nursing assessment and the documentation that goes with it. What a waste!! She is bright and wants to give great patient care. But, her previous experience as an R.T. did not prepare her to skip the clinical component that formal colleges offer. Don't give this college the opportunity to short circuit your nursing career!

Fisherman'sdaughter (A.K.A. Nursing Educator)

:trout: FISH ON!!

on another note...my company has hired MANY nurses who have gone through a traditional nursing program & although they may know nursing on paper in a reality they knew nothing! A's on paper look good but if you can't apply it to real life it's no good to you. Just because EC isn't sitting in a classroom letting someone else read chapters of a book to you doesn't mean that it isn't a good school....you just have to be dedicated enough to be able to read to yourself. The reason they don't require clinical hours is because the people they allow into the program already have clinical hours....I get 32-40 every week at my job! Maybe she just wasn't a very good nurse.....some people are just book smart...I see it all the time. You can't judge an entire program based upon one person's failures. You get out what you put in.

on another note...my company has hired MANY nurses who have gone through a traditional nursing program & although they may know nursing on paper in a reality they knew nothing! A's on paper look good but if you can't apply it to real life it's no good to you. Just because EC isn't sitting in a classroom letting someone else read chapters of a book to you doesn't mean that it isn't a good school....you just have to be dedicated enough to be able to read to yourself. The reason they don't require clinical hours is because the people they allow into the program already have clinical hours....I get 32-40 every week at my job! Maybe she just wasn't a very good nurse.....some people are just book smart...I see it all the time. You can't judge an entire program based upon one person's failures. You get out what you put in.

This is the reasoning that people fail to use when judging the Excelsior College nursing program.

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