Excelsior Advice needed

You need to go on the website, the information is there although hard to find. The fees change yearly, increasing. You can finish the program as fast as you care to. The only holdup is getting a date for the CPNE at the end. You can make that process faster by accepting a cancellation date. Many people finish in less than a year. It can be done. You need to factor in hotel costs and travel costs for the CPNE. Currently the fee for the test is just over $2000, I remember when it was $900. There are no clinicals. The clinical examination is the CPNE. It is an intensive weekend venture that you can read about here, on the EC yahoo group sites, and on the EPN on the EC website. Three tries at the CPNE before you are dismissed from the program, then you can reenter after five years if you want to wait that long for another try at it.

There are no clinicals, just the CPNE -- the whole idea of the program is that you're already an experience healthcare provider. The search feature on this forum will also yield a lot of CPNE information. Good luck, whatever you decide to do. :)

Again, the whole point of EC is that the students already have clinical abilities. Are you working as an LVN?

Most people get their clinical practice legs on their first job out of school whether it be from EC or a traditional school. Some traditional programs are very lacking in the clinical component. The important thing you get from nursing school is getting your paperwork signed so that you can take the NCLEX. That is the same for EC and all traditional schools.