Excelsior Grads-need your opinion!

[hiyall]

Hi, here's my concern....

I'm graduating from my LPN program this fall and looking at local bridge programs but discouraged by the amount of time it's going to take to complete them. As of now, I'm top of my class with a 4.0 and graduated with a Criminal Justice degree & a 4.0-I'm very self disciplined and feel that I have enough school hours under my belt. HOWEVER, I don't want to mess up by completing an online bridge program that employers won't accept/recognize, or even the state for that matter. I'd like to hear from Excelsior/online grads, I want to hear their stories, opinions, job opportunities they've had or lack of. Please help!

[Itshamrtym]

Thanks for replying back. I was wondering how much time it took to work with the classes, the toughest of the nursing school classes, to do well on? I get the feeling there's a fair amount of memorization, right? And on average, for the ol' 8-12 week class, Excelsior has their students only take one class at a time, right?

If one does follow this schedule, then I get the feeling that on the physiology, anatomy, and other hard science courses, it's a fair amount tougher to slog through the material, right? Everyone has their own pace, but would you say at least 1-2 hours a night in class, and study time or what?

I just thought I'd ask and see what's at stake in this whole pursuit.

I think it's like 10 clinical-non-GE classes, so that's what I'd be after.

I also have the ol' NCLEX-PN study guide, to see if I have the content retention before I take the classes.

Thanks again, and hey, if any previous Excelsior College grad. still has their academic class material, and I could pay for the postage, would people ship them my way to DC, or what? Thanks.

As you said everyone has their own pace. Some people can whiz though a class in a few weeks, others it takes months or longer. It depends on what is going on in your life. Although, I love EC, if I had to do it over I would do a bridge program. I think I would have gotten done a lot faster.

I took A& P at a community college. I did do Micro through EC, it was hard, but I did well.. I was shocked!!!! NCLEX books are a great resource. As well as RN NCLEX books. I found these to be helpful resources and start preparing in advance as to the types of questions that will be on the boards. Well good luck to you all and let us know if we can assist you further... Take Care. (oh, you can work on as many courses as you would like at the same time... but, I would recommend that you do one at a time... Bang them out!!!!!

[tallone123]

I certainly appreciate the nice responses back to me from students experienced with EC. It will be several months before I could begin taking these hard science nursing classes and was wondering if someone would still have the review books laying around somewhere, so I could pay for the postage of them to be sent to me?

This would help me out a great deal. I'm just a little leary about getting myself in over my head as they say! Thanks again!