Excelsior my only option, please help!

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hi well i have taken a few classes at the university for nursing i have all bs, but now im working and cant leave my current job i would really want info if anyone has gone to excelsior college, and if its possible to get a nursing degree from there. i am a bit confused right now i am thinkin that you already at least have to be an lvn,emtp or something to actually do the degrees online. is there a nursing degree from excelsior that i can make completly online, i mean i can do the clinicals and take days off at work or what ever but i cant just leave it 100%. i would really want to be an lvn. please help if anyone has info

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetery, gerentology.

Yes you have to be an LPN before you can do this program. I like the flexibility. Im like you, I have to work full-time and can't go to school full-time. I am a single parent. I have taken 4 nursing exams and have three to go- taking one Friday.

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Ohh ok :( I thought I might be able to get my LVN online or something, or at least another degree which I can work with and get paid a bit more that Im getting paid.

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Thirty years ago you could walk in off the street and become an RN through Regents (before the name change to Excelsior). Since then they have tightened their requirements several times to require a health care background.

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From Excelsior's website:

-Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses

-Paramedics

-Certain classifications of Military Corpsmen

-Respiratory Therapist, Respiratory Technician, Respiratory Care Practitioner

-Physician trained and/or licensed outside of United States

-Physician or Physician's Assistant trained and/or licensed in the United States

-Licensed Psychiatric Technician for Arkansas or Colorado only

-Licensed, Certified or Registered Midwife

-Students who have successfully completed at least 50% of the clinical nursing credit hours with a minimum grade of C in an associate, baccalaureate, or RN diploma nursing program within 5 years of completing their last nursing course

I have seen that some schools offer a hybrid course for the LVN program, with the academic part online/skills and clinical part in person.

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If you have taken at least 50% of the nursing classes at the last school you have attended, you can enrolled at Excelsior.

This is what I did and I do not have a previous nursing degree.

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Specializes in Trauma, Cardiac Cath/Special procedures.

you do not have to be a LPN to be accepted into this program. I was accepted into EC under the requirement of having over 50% of previous nursing school experience. I graduated from their program in 9- 2010. you should call EC and talk with an advisor or go to the website at excelsior.edu

hope this helps,

Smitty G.N.

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I went with EC on having more than 50% of an RN program completed, then on having an LVN license. You have to keep in mind that it must be more than 50% of the clinical portion. One person posted that she indeed had more than 50% of the clinical portion done, but EC said no and could not be convinced otherwise.

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Caliotter are you still doing Excelsior? How is that going?

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