Getting started with Excelsior College - Page 8

I've been an LPN for 4yrs and let me tell ya, if i could go back and do this ALL over again, i would have started fresh out of LPN school when my head was crammed full of info instead of re-learing things along the way. What the previous poster said about taking the gen eds and the two nursing exams BEFORE enrolling is true. You should go ahead, apply to the school and send all your transcripts from both the college and lpn school in, it will take them 2-3 wks to go through it all and let you know what credits you still need. In the mean time, start on Health & Safety! It's honestly a pretty good overview of LPN school in my opinion touching on the nursing process, communication and med dosage questions. Since i was out of school for so long i had to re-read everything to help it all come back and got an A on the test. I ONLY used the recommended textbooks and some of my LPN school textbooks i still had.(they had notes in the margins that jogged my memory from school lol) Check through this board as well there are lots of hints and tips...go through Excelsior's website and read and click on different links to get familiar! I started this over 2 yrs ago and gave up and gave in, not realizing how to go about doing things. I was used to deadlines and due dates so i took the content guide for the test i was taking and assigned myself due dates (usually a week per section) and then paid for and scheduled the exam so i would have "final exam" date. This kept me motivated and moving along, that way i didn't end up slacking off cause life got in the way!

Hope this helps!

TAsha

Thank you SO much for the awesome reply! I'm going to post again, but I'm running around at this very moment. I will be back! Your reply/post was really encouraging. I wish I had known about this college ages ago.

Oh yeah!...PS. You receive actual letter grades @ Excelsior? If so, that's fantastic. I'd take it either way, but I would love to aim for A grades in that case!

Yes, for all of your nursing exams, and for any gen ed courses or exams you take you get letter grades. When you take the exams at pearson, you walk out and they hand you a printout with your letter grade on it. You don't have to wait to see if you passed like for the nclex. And each nursing class is 3 credits so you can raise your gpa a lot if you get a bunch of A's. Your cpne, fcca, and information literacy class is pass/fail, so no letter grade for those, you just earn credits for those if you pass them. I agree with what the above poster said about the Health safety class. It's a very basic class, so you probably won't have to review too much for it, you should check out the excelsior website and find the content guide for health safety and see how familiar the material is for you, then take the exam while you're waiting for excelsior to approve your transcripts and such.

Congratulation!. Do you have any Rue or Chancellors study guide for Health and Safety?

congratulationsss! Do you have any Rue or Chancellor Study Guide?

Not as far as i know, they give some people scholarships

I studied on my own, and made my own notes. sorry.

You do not need to go thru Rue or College Network or ANY of that! In fact, I encourage you to STAY AWAY. Everything you need can be found on eBay - New more at low prices.

Type in Excelsior and whatever the title is that you are looking for. There are people selling the study tests, notes, and guides on CDs, etc. Stay FAR away from ANYTHING that requires you sign a contract. Excelsior does not endorse them or support them.

Thanks

I used Saunders NCLEX review for RN's it helped me on my exams and study group 101