CPNE Advise

Editorial Team / Moderator · Mar 6, 2016

Which hospital, Grady? You can search this forum for experiences, they're here.

bgriffin32 · Mar 6, 2016

I wanted advice about all 5 clinical sites in GA.

Editorial Team / Moderator · Mar 6, 2016

I wanted advice about all 5 clinical sites in GA.

There are actually only four sites â€” the CHOA location is where the Grady testers go for the peds patients. No one is going to be able to provide you with advice on all the sites, and you can Google journals all day long and still get one student's opinion. Your best bet is to focus on your own preparation; the sites will be very similar, and in Georgia the CA/CEs rotate between sites so you'd probably get some of the same people administering the test anywhere you go. You can look at the websites for each hospital if you want to get an idea of patient population: Excelsior College | Finding a Test Site

You will see good and bad about EVERY site. If you want to decrease your wait time, don't limit yourself to a handful of sites.

bgriffin32 · Mar 6, 2016

Yeah I kinda figured that it seems everyone does their CPNE in Ny I have read so many reviews on all the places up there, guess the south is not so popular lol

MedicFireRN · Mar 6, 2016

If you are going to take a workshop to help you prepare, I wouldn't wait to do it the weekend before your CPNE. You should already be set to test the weekend before. I would give yourself time.

I took a workshop in April 2015 and I tested July 10-12, 2015. I felt like that was the perfect amount of time to apply what I had learned from the workshop to what I was already doing. I wouldn't have wanted to have less time because I may not have been able to really soak in all that I had learned from the workshop.

I tested at Southern Regional. It is a nice test site. I think it seems like the northern sites are more popular because there are more of them. I have seen plenty of people post in the facebook groups and on the EC community boards that they tested SPAC.

bgriffin32 · Mar 9, 2016

Thank you for the feed back I really wanted to test in GA because it's closer and cheaper but I had just heard nothing about them, I did read that it takes longer to get a test date in the SPAC?

MedicFireRN · Mar 9, 2016

I don't know that it takes longer. There are only 4 sites so perhaps, but that was the first date I was offered and it was a comparable wait to those who were waiting for NPAC dates.

bgriffin32 · Mar 10, 2016

thanks for the input I truly appreciate it I am just ready to have it done lol

SnowballDVM · Mar 14, 2016

I was at the same workshop as MedicFireRN and tested and passed about six weeks after she did, so about four months after the workshop. I agree with her that you shouldn't take a workshop the weekend before you test. I'd say a month or two ahead of time is better, since then you have plenty of time to practice things you learned at the workshop, but not so much time that you start forgetting what you learned.

Good luck!

bgriffin32 · Mar 15, 2016

Did you test in GA as well? I have decided I will be done with FCCA on April 24th last day to take final and Sherri Taylor has a workshop the weekend of May 20th I am going to go ahead and sign up before it is full, at first I really wasn't stressing finishing I guess because I know I have the time with my school, but my job is now wanting me in a RN position they are holding for me by August.

SnowballDVM · Mar 15, 2016

No, I tested in Wisconsin before they closed both test sites.