FCCA..How did you prepare?

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HI

For those of you who have completed FCCA how did you prepare and what are your thoughts?

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Specializes in Tele/Neuro/Trauma.

You don't prepare for it. It's open book! The directions are vague, but if you call EC, they will tell you if you are on the right track. You can use your Mosby's Care plan book and your Taylor's fundamentals book for it. Don't sweat it. It really is as simple as it looks. It's a nice break before the beast. :-)

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Specializes in wound care, sub-acute, community nursing.
HI

For those of you who have completed FCCA how did you prepare and what are your thoughts?

What books are recomended for this exam so I can get them now. Thanks!!

Christine

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You can use your Mosby's Care plan book and your Taylor's fundamentals book for it.

from beachie's post above.

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Specializes in wound care, sub-acute, community nursing.

Great--I don't have a fundamentals book because I didn't need to take that exam. I do have a med surg book and am going out to get the care planning book today. Honestly, I was writing that question after a LONG day of work and it went right over my head! Haha.:no: Thanks for pointing out that I didn't read carefully reebok, haha! :p

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I don't have that book either, we'll see how it goes. a guy I work with used only the mosby nursing diagnosis book and passed, so I probably won't get another book.

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Specializes in Tele/Neuro/Trauma.

Guys in retrospect, if you look over the Taylor's Fundamentals books that EC recommends for the H&S exam, you might see some very familiar things... ie every single critical element for the CPNE. The way things are explained and demonstrated in that book is pretty much word for word how they got the assessments for the PCS's. I got the book and the DVD's on Amazon.com, one edition early, for like $30. I didn't even open it until a week before I left for New York, and good Lord I wish I had done it sooner. It's all right there.

I'm just sayin.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Psych.

Beachie, I couldn't have said it any better than you did:yeah:

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Do you still have the books?

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I used SG101 and some YouTube videos but mostly the EC content from each modules. The quizzes could be hard, at least for me but the final exam is easy

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I used SG101 and some YouTube videos but mostly the EC content from each modules. The quizzes could be hard, at least for me but the final exam is easy

that makes me feel a looooot better! I'm going to PM you

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The mudules seem difficult especially SATA questions is the final like this too

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