Never learned care plans

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I have LS 1-3 remaining and have completed all other nursing and general ed requirements via college network prep. I have read the college network materials covering each requirement , than tested and passed tests. I am now becoming pretty concerned as to how I am going to learn about care plans? are there excelsior workshops that teach from beginning to end?

Please spare me any negativity about my choice to do tests vs actually taking the classes.

I hate to think I will finish everything and be lost regarding care plans and unable to move forward. I fully expect to do excelsiors CPNE and probably Sheri Taylors workshop prior to CPNE, but i would guess that showing up to a workshop with no idea of care plans would be pretty silly.

Has anyone been in this boat, I would appreciate some thoughts.

Thank You

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To be more specific, I have LS1-3, FCCAx2, and CPNE. Does the FCCA cover care plan teaching?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OR, ICU.

Excelsior does have a course available for careplans once you are cpne eligible. Sherry Taylor also teaches about careplans. Several options out there

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I had no idea how to do a care plan was until after I had finished my FCCA.

Don;t worry about it, you can get it figured out between finishing the FCCA and when you do your CPNE. Several aids out there for that.

I used robscpne for my basis, here is his care plan class (a pretty basic one, but helps you get the jist of it).

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

There are care plan samples (the ones you will actually use for the CPNE) within the CPNE study guide. Using those and the latest recommended nursing diagnosis book to practice, you will be fine. I had never done a care plan prior to preparing for the CPNE, either.

Question: why do you feel someone would bash you for taking exams as opposed to courses? Excelsior just recently introduced courses as optional, to become mandatory next year. Had I been required to do the courses, I would have just stuck with a community college.

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There are care plan samples (the ones you will actually use for the CPNE) within the CPNE study guide. Using those and the latest recommended nursing diagnosis book to practice, you will be fine. I had never done a care plan prior to preparing for the CPNE, either.

Question: why do you feel someone would bash you for taking exams as opposed to courses? Excelsior just recently introduced courses as optional, to become mandatory next year. Had I been required to do the courses, I would have just stuck with a community college.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the feedback.

I agree that I would never be at excelsior with the requirements such as the the recently added 2015 updates

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I agree that I would never be at excelsior with the requirements such as the the recently added 2015 updates

Yup, it looses the flexibility that it currently has that makes it appealing to many.

I have 2 friends doing it, one is in the next FCCA class and should be done by March.

Another is just starting the nursing courses and he is getting his schedule set up to be able to not have to do the new courses.

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Don't feel bad, I went to a traditional BSN program and they didn't teach care plans. In clinical, we just printed out ready-made care plans from the hospital, just like the nurses. Why reinvent the wheel?

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Specializes in ONCOLOGY/ HEMATOLOGY.

I didn't know a thing about Care Plans until I started preparing for my CPNE! It's really not that difficult to learn and Sheri Taylor is good. I took her online class for 1 month before my CPNE and passed on the first try! Good luck to you!

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search apples apples on fB and cpnebootcamp has a 12 day care plan class that you can take once you get to cpne

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Okay- I am also on my Lifespan 1, 2, and 3 EXAMS! Let's stay in touch please! I have zipped through Excelsior fairly quickly only because I already had prerequisites and transferred all those in so only had to take nursing courses. I am also using CHANCELLOR study guides now - they are really good - I recommend them! However, I have heard that you probably do NOT want to test out on the prereq courses - only on the nursing courses and those are the only ones I have utilized Chancellor's for as well. Yes, the FCCE (from what I understood and from what others are saying) is where you work on care plans. We actually did quite a few care plans in the LPN program I completed. It was great. Feel free to contact me as we go through the rest of this program together!

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