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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC, Rehab, Hospice, Endocrine.

I just applied to Excelsior for the associate program! I am so excited to get started; I have already printed out the study guide for health safety, and am studying my heart out! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for posting their positive experiences with this program; this is why I chose to go through them and not wait for my community college program. Glad that I have such a great place to go and talk with other people going through the same thing. :yeah:

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Best of luck thoughout your exams. I'm curious to know why didn't you take Health Safety before enrolling? Do you have prereqs?

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Go, Kylea!

Akanini, I enrolled before taking anything. I wasn't even thinking about the enrollment fee - I knew I would be so I just bit the bullet and paid.

:)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC, Rehab, Hospice, Endocrine.

I actually have credit for all of my pre-req classes from other programs. We just moved to Wisconsin from California, so I was working on going through a junior college out there. I wanted the deadline, so to speak, of the yearly fee to help motivate myself to do it. I know if I take longer than a year it will cost me more money. I've been working on getting my RN for two years now, and I just got tired of waiting. (wait lists in San Diego are HORRIBLE!) I'm hoping that by the time the school gets all of my transcripts and the copy of my LVN license I will be ready to take the first exam anyway. Thanks for the encouragement! I am giddy inside when I think about the fact that I will have my RN!!!

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It's a good feeling, Kylea. I have the GN now. RN is soon to come.

:)

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Okay. You can take the first exam now if you are ready. I'm glad you have your prereqs. That really helps. So you don't have plans to ever move back to CA, right?

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Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.

Congratulations! You can do it! Just study hard and go ahead and schedule your first test so that you will have a goal to mark your studies.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC, Rehab, Hospice, Endocrine.

I will be moving back to California, but it will be at least three years. According to what I have read, an RN with a degree from Excelsior can apply for reciprocity with 2 years experience in another state.

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I will be moving back to California, but it will be at least three years. According to what I have read, an RN with a degree from Excelsior can apply for reciprocity with 2 years experience in another state.

Are you sure about that? Not to rain on your parade, but are you sure? That doesn't seem right.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC, Rehab, Hospice, Endocrine.

I read that yesterday from a board of nursing website....

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I think you better call CA BON and double check that ASAP! That does NOT sound right at all.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC, Rehab, Hospice, Endocrine.

Either way, I'm still going to do the program; it's not 100% that we will move back to CA, and even if we do, I am going to be here for at least three more years. I am a little freaked out, because I can't figure out where I found that yesterday. (it's there somewhere, I just have to find it again...I probably have it on my computer at home). I'll do what I have to do if the time comes and they still won't accept reciprocity. Thanks for worrying about me :) (been looking for a reason to convince my husband to move back to FL.....lol)

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