I tend to go on and on about my love/hate relationship with Excelsior, but today something happened that made me stop and realize just what EC has done for me.
This is purely anectdotal, but then so is most all the information on this board. I do want to say my situation is the gospel truth.
For anyone who thinks being an Excelsior graduate makes you unemployable, or makes people doubt your abilities, I want you to know that within two weeks after I graduated I had three job offers. One agency has called me every week wanting to give me a job.
I was able to get a job in a field I was really ineterested in: home health. I am making (conservatively) about $54,000 a year after taxes. In Tennessee that is a good salary and I have found out today that just to be "on call" over a week I will get $150 extra. Big whoopie, you may say, but there aren't many fields where you can do this with an associates degree from a distance learning school.
At the risk of sounding like a corny tv commercial...thanks Excelsior.
I think the moderator has already spoken. Wouldn't the competence/incompetence of traditional nursing school grads best be discussed under a new thread with the appropriate title? There's a procedure here for reporting objectionable posts.
I don't find criticism of traditional grads or programs objectionable. In fact, people are entitled to their opinions and I welcome the debate. BUT ... I wasn't sure if responding in kind would violate the moderator's warning ... hence my question.
Maybe a separate thread would be the best solution.
just beat the nclex about the head and ears in one hour and 10 minutes, 75 questions. what a piece of cake! the licensing exam is a joke compared to the cpne. perhaps that's where they need to tighten standards.[/quote
Uh ... I thought we weren't supposed to be debating the EC issue here.
Or, has this now become a traditional grads are incompetent thread. Because if it is, I'm mighty tempted to respond. But ... I would also like to comply with the moderators wishes ...
Moderators?
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If it hadn't been brought up I wouldn't have responded. Since the person felt it was an issue I told them an experience I had.
Hardly a slam on traditional grads.. I don't know where she went to school. It could have been Joe's School of Nursing through the mail, for all I knew. :penguin:
BTW, thanks Excelsior!!!
I used to think I would be hiding my Excelsior diploma in the closet and changing the subject when people asked me where I went to school.
I know now that back then, I looked at Excelsior through the eyes of a fool.
and i'm not trying to slam traditional grads either. there are many wonderful nurses that graduate from traditional programs. in my opinion, it's not a guarantee that you'll wind up with a better nurse vs alternative routes such as ec.
excelsior allows medics, lpns, rt's and midwifes who couldn't do it any other way to become rn's. it's a great benefit for society and a true blessing in their lives. i know, because i'm one.
EricJRN, MSN, RN
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I think the moderator has already spoken. Wouldn't the competence/incompetence of traditional nursing school grads best be discussed under a new thread with the appropriate title? There's a procedure here for reporting objectionable posts.