Excelsior

Hey Congrats, Excelsior is a good program! I Love it. On their web site they have an online bookstore to get your books, however i recomend getting books on amazon.com its alot cheaper! Good Study tips: go to flashcardexchange.com and look at the notes for nursing concepts. I noticed that most of the notes are related to test questions. Plus taking the Excelsior practice exams are really good. I usually take them and study the rationals. Good luck and its not as bad as people think!

Not so bad; I've taken Nursing Concepts 1 and 2, Chronicity, and I will take the Reprouctive Health exam in 2 weeks... After that I have to take Life Span 1, 2, and 3.... Excelsior looks at ur edu history and let you know the classes you need for you AVN/ASN.... Good luck... Not back at all.... if you ahven't started; check out bookstore online/they have cliffnotes on each course and target what you need to know; this method is a bit cheaper than taking all courses from excelsior... Check out http://www.dlsii.com/asnprogram.htm... I use them for the books and I pay excelsior the fee for the exam and I take the exam at person vue... Good luck....

I have the books from college network. If you are interested PM me.

I have two friends that graduated Excelsior - both of them agreed that this is the most important piece of advice about the program - BUY THE CLINICAL DVD TO STUDY BY. They said the clinical is very very strict, and they wouldn't have passed it without studying the dvd over and over and over.

I think it's around $120 or so last time I checked - it's not part of the required materials.

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I just finsihed the program, waiting to take boards...I have the textbooks, older versions, if interested send me an [email protected],

I've also read on the EPN journals that one student credited Excelsior's dvd to passing the CPNE, especially the Labs Simulations. I was put off buying it at first, due to some people saying it was a waste of money and didn't teach them anything. But since I've just found out that it's not possible for me to go to a workshop, I'm going to buy the clinical dvd, just to get a feel of what the real exam is going to be like.

I have two friends that graduated Excelsior - both of them agreed that this is the most important piece of advice about the program - BUY THE CLINICAL DVD TO STUDY BY. They said the clinical is very very strict, and they wouldn't have passed it without studying the dvd over and over and over.

I think it's around $120 or so last time I checked - it's not part of the required materials.

hth

I just contacted Excelsior to buy their CPNE DVD and she informed me there was going to be a new update version coming out in mid-July. Just FYI!

What is the exact title to this DVD; wanna buy iy, yhx... Great tip..........

CPNE Video (DVD or VHS) and interactive workbook.

What is the exact title to this DVD; wanna buy iy, yhx... Great tip..........

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Use the Excelsior DVD as a guide. The DVD itself is filled with mistakes(something like 60). Its just there to show the type of format the CPNE is. I recommend Robs DVD and Lynn Fredricks LAB DVD. I used all three videos and passed in Dec 08 with no repeats.Good Luck in your studies.