Excelsior CPNE workshop vs. Sherri Taylor

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I will be approaching FCCA next month and then on to CPNE. If anyone has takenCPNE workshop through excelsior or Sherri Taylors please share what you thought about them and your experience. Ive heard about both, just not in great detail... Thanks

Specializes in geriatrics, hospice, private duty.

I'm doing Sheri's online and I love it. I don't plan on doing the in person though; I am what is called an "isolated" studier which means I learn better by myself (yay introverts!). I've heard that the Ec workshop is terrible with like 29 students, 1 instructor and little to no hands on, but that is nursing grapevine.

The above post was the first negative thing I have ever heard about Sheri's live workshop (though it wasn't all bad).

Guess if I was to do an in-person, I would go with Sheri because the complaints for both workshops seem to be the same but Sheri's is cheaper!

Has anyone done the Ec conferences? I am curious about those and I haven't heard too much about them. I will probably just stick with Sheri's online workshop and let that be that.

i went to sheris it's true she has a nice personality and is good with care plans but the class was too big.

i thought we would get to practice assessments and aoc's but didn't. i did the wound once but there were too many people to allow us a decent amount of time in the lab.

i went there because on her class schedule it states hands on time after each lab etc...but we didn't get that. oh well.

her sidekick Greg passed the CPNE the second time around and still is not an RN he said he has to do clinicals first.

i have a friend that went to EC he said there were 20 students with 2 instructors who put the students in groups to do assessments and areas of management on each other.

i say if you're going to a workshop. Go to one that doesn't have large classes and will let you practice during the workshop.

Hey guys, has anyone done a workshop with Chancellors? It is very expensive, but it's a five day workshop. I'm looking for some advice because I need major help if I'm gonna pass this CPNE.

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
Hey guys, has anyone done a workshop with Chancellors? It is very expensive, but it's a five day workshop. I'm looking for some advice because I need major help if I'm gonna pass this CPNE.

A friend of mine took the Chancellors workshop a few years ago and had nothing but good things to say. She passed on her first try.

i went to sheris it's true she has a nice personality and is good with care plans but the class was too big.

i thought we would get to practice assessments and aoc's but didn't. i did the wound once but there were too many people to allow us a decent amount of time in the lab.

i went there because on her class schedule it states hands on time after each lab etc...but we didn't get that. oh well.

her sidekick Greg passed the CPNE the second time around and still is not an RN he said he has to do clinicals first.

i have a friend that went to EC he said there were 20 students with 2 instructors who put the students in groups to do assessments and areas of management on each other.

i say if you're going to a workshop. Go to one that doesn't have large classes and will let you practice during the workshop.

What do you mean by her sidekick isn't a RN yet because he has to do clinicals first? What am I missing here? If he passed the CPNE, what is left clinical wise?

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
What do you mean by her sidekick isn't a RN yet because he has to do clinicals first? What am I missing here? If he passed the CPNE, what is left clinical wise?

He lives in Georgia, and Georgia has some extra requirements before EC grads can take the NCLEX.

He lives in Georgia, and Georgia has some extra requirements before EC grads can take the NCLEX.

Ahh..yes. ;)

I went to Chancellor's in Indiana. Small classroom, 5 days of CPNE prep, And lots of hand on. Sherri is wonderful also, all I hear are people passing from her. Many people use her online only and pass first time round no problem. EC wants you to go there but from what I heard the classes are huge and the student is left still confused. I never went that way so I'm limited with information. No matter what we do, we get out of it by how much we put in to it. For me nerves are the toughest part to overcome.

Sheri Taylor is not a teacher from Excelsior, and not a student, she created her own business, its only her own approach how to pass Cpne test, its not approved by Excelsior or anyone. Her classes overcrowded, no labs on hand, she offers videos on line, they have a lot of mistakes and you would fail for one. She claims that its her passion to teach cpne, if that would be a case and she would care her classes would be no more than 5-7 people instead of 25, so research before you go. I failed two times, because of her teaching, wrong care plans, and wrong lab technique videos on line which she charges 147 per month.

Specializes in geriatrics, hospice, private duty.

I took Sheri Taylor's online workshop and failed. However, I had extenuating circumstances and still feel that Sheri's course was a life-saver.

I can't agree with the above poster about her labs. I flew through the labs and only failed wound because the wound was too narrow and shallow for me to adequately pack it with the feeding method and I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do the other techniques. Had I practiced an alternate backup technique, I think I would have passed my labs with no repeats.

I kind of got mixed messages about my care plans. When I submitted the message center PCS paperwork for grading, my care plans were always commented on as "excellent" and the like, but when I took the CPNE, the CA said she thought my care plans could use work. I had no idea why she was commenting on my care plans because I did not fail either PCS during the planning phase. She asked who I studied with and made a comment about non-Ec workshops. Basically she was saying I should have studied through Ec.

However, Ec workshops cost a lot more and for the most part, I've heard they are not helpful. I've mostly read that on these boards, but a few people this weekend mentioned that they studied through Ec and did not find it helpful and they were in the thick of the CPNE.

thats funny, here own staff member had to take the cpne twice lol

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
thats funny, here own staff member had to take the cpne twice lol
I really don't see how anyone failing the CPNE is ever funny... But I also know some fantastic nurses who took two or even all three attempts to pass.
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