How long did it take you?

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Specializes in Pain Management, RN experience was in ER.

I was wondering how long it took each of you to finish the excelsior LVN-RN program? I know it's at your own pace, but I was wondering how quickly or how long you had to finish. Thanks!! :redpinkhe

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

One year, one month, and one day. :D That's including a 7-month wait for my CPNE!

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It took me about a year and a half. I just got my diploma today it looks pretty!

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
It took me about a year and a half. I just got my diploma today it looks pretty!

Congratulations!! I still haven't framed mine yet. It is pretty, though! :)

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Specializes in Pain Management, RN experience was in ER.
One year, one month, and one day. :D That's including a 7-month wait for my CPNE!

So if you didnt have to wait 7 months for your CPNE you would have been done in 6 months!?!?!? That's amazing!

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
So if you didnt have to wait 7 months for your CPNE you would have been done in 6 months!?!?!? That's amazing!

Nah, 'cause I probably would have failed spectacularly at the CPNE without the extra study time! LOL!!! :D

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Two years one month to conferral of my degree, which came in the mail today.

I was done with the exams within 1 .4 years. I blasted through the first three then coasted then did the last 5 in 3 months. Then wiated for the CPNE, failed it, then waited again, passed it.

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Specializes in ER and family advanced nursing practice.

It took me almost exactly two years, but I could have done it in 14-16 months or so. I needed a humanities class for EC and decided to take Spanish. I had so much fun taking Spanish that I ended up pursing a bachelors in it. So I would go to Spanish class in the daytime and study nursing and Spanish at night. I was five classes away from finishing my Spanish degree when I followed my wife to another state (to begin her nursing education).

For me those were the two biggest benefits to going to EC: I was able to move to another state without interrupting my nursing education, and I was able to go to another college and study Spanish. I didn't get the degree, but I took enough classes that my current university (Graceland) has granted me a minor in Spanish.

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Specializes in Uromycetisis Poisoning.

Completed all pre-reqs through local college. 6 months for the EC nursing exams, then 6 more months until the CPNE date. The wait seems long for the CPNE, but most of us probably needed it to prepare. I know I did.

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Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.

I enrolled in January and my grad date is Oct 17th.

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