Newbie to site! Excelsior student working on Chronicity!

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.

Wow! I am so glad I saw this site via facebook! I had to take many months off from Excelsior studies to sit for an exam for work and I am struggling to get back to into Chronicity! I have not looked at my notes since March and it is so hard reviewing from so long ago! I am eager to get moving again and finish this program! I am in the sensory portion now so I hope to take this exam by early November. I am using the older Chronic Illness book as well as the older Medical/Surgical book-did anyone find the new books helpful? I did scored an "A" Saftey, but worry about the time lapse now for Chronicity. Is anyone else working on Chronicity?

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Don't worry about where you were before. Just start over and give it a good effort. Good luck with getting these exams done.

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I am working on Chronicity as well - test date is 10/29 and have just really started to get in gear. I find it kind of boring but wanted to get it out of the way!! Right now I am using Study Group 101 and the practice tests to get me through it all!

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.

What is Study Group 101? I am eager for anything to help! I have done a practice exam yet. I waited until I was almost through the material last time before I took the 1st one. I was just reading through a couple of pages of the board, and there is some negative feedback about Excelsior out there! I spoke with the Minnesota State Board of Nursing before I enrolled, and they recommended Excelsior to me at the time (2 years ago). I want to get this one and it would be great to have Repo done by Christmas! Thanks for the replies!

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Specializes in Cardiac Care, Palliative Care.

Don't let the negative comments about Excelsior deter you. There will always be skeptics of Distance Learning programs. What's important, is that your state accepts Excelsior. Distance Learning is becoming increasingly popular, with hundreds of "traditional" schools offering distance learning classes to their students.

Study Group 101 sells study material for the Excelsior exams. I've personally used them and Lisa Arends study notes, as well as Excelsior practice exams.

http://www.studygroup101.com/

http://myworld.ebay.com/larends

istudysmart also sells study material. You can buy one course material at a time to see if it works for you.

http://www.istudysmart.com/content.asp?cid=11

Good luck!

What is Study Group 101? I am eager for anything to help! I have done a practice exam yet. I waited until I was almost through the material last time before I took the 1st one. I was just reading through a couple of pages of the board, and there is some negative feedback about Excelsior out there! I spoke with the Minnesota State Board of Nursing before I enrolled, and they recommended Excelsior to me at the time (2 years ago). I want to get this one and it would be great to have Repo done by Christmas! Thanks for the replies!
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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.
Don't let the negative comments about Excelsior deter you. There will always be skeptics of Distance Learning programs. What's important, is that your state accepts Excelsior. Distance Learning is becoming increasingly popular, with hundreds of "traditional" schools offering distance learning classes to their students.

Study Group 101 sells study material for the Excelsior exams. I've personally used them and Lisa Arends study notes, as well as Excelsior practice exams.

http://www.studygroup101.com/

http://myworld.ebay.com/larends

istudysmart also sells study material. You can buy one course material at a time to see if it works for you.

http://www.istudysmart.com/content.asp?cid=11

Good luck!

Thanks for the great links! Do you have a personal favorite of the above?

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Specializes in Cardiac Care, Palliative Care.

My personal favorite was Study Group 101.

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.
My personal favorite was Study Group 101.

Is the Study Group 101 CD/Download similar to Lisa Arends, or is there more detail with Study Group? I really appreciate the info! Great resources listed! I am learning that students really had a different approach to studying for these exams. On facebook, one student tested after only studying for a few days and did well! I can't even make it through the required readings in a few days!

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Specializes in Cardiac Care, Palliative Care.

What I liked about Study Group 101 is that I can print out everything that's on the CD; Lisa Arends have restrictions on what can be printed out. I also found Study Group 101 to be a little more organized and easy to read. I gave myself 2-6 weeks to study, depending on the complexity of the material. I was able to complete the entire program in 1 year.

Is the Study Group 101 CD/Download similar to Lisa Arends, or is there more detail with Study Group? I really appreciate the info! Great resources listed! I am learning that students really had a different approach to studying for these exams. On facebook, one student tested after only studying for a few days and did well! I can't even make it through the required readings in a few days!
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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.
What I liked about Study Group 101 is that I can print out everything that's on the CD; Lisa Arends have restrictions on what can be printed out. I also found Study Group 101 to be a little more organized and easy to read. I gave myself 2-6 weeks to study, depending on the complexity of the material. I was able to complete the entire program in 1 year.

Wow! That is fantastic! Do you remember which exams took you longer, and which went faster? I ordered Chronicity from Study Group 101 yesterday after printing off what I could of Lisa Arends notes. I had completed the Chronicity Content Guide late last winter (but had while I studied and sat for surgical assisting exam), and I am just starting to review and don't want to re-read everything, it takes me 3 months! I couldn't believe it when I read that one student had tested on Reproductive after only a week of studying! I am really taking too much time going through material! Hope these aides will help! :o

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You can also get them on ebay with a few on them at a time so you don't have to get each cd individually. I got the h&s, diff, chronicity and repro all on one cd for $30 and the lifespan 1 2 and 3 on one cd for $30. I did pay 10.49 for the transition cd. It comes by itself. I love them. The ladies here are all so helpful. I am new too and they told me what to do. I am only on h&s and am waiting on my test check from tcn to schedule the test. I am doing transitions next then chronicity. Good Luck. H&S is so boring to me. It kinda reminds me of nursing fundamentals. I am ready to test though and move on. I want to be done by June 1, 2011.

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.

Thanks for the info! I ordered the Chronicity Study101 CD and if I like it I will definately be getting more! I have Chronicity, Repo, Transitions and the Lifespan exams to do and my goal is to be finished with these 6 exams by June as well. I also have to a humanities class, but I will tack that on while waiting for the CPNE. I am really going to try one test a month--I have been enrolled in this far too long! I want to be done. :) For Saftely I made 2 packages of index cards worth of notes--took a huge amount of time. I also purchased the Fundamentals study guide-also perhaps over the top and time consuming (but kind of fun!) I did get an A, but the reading alone takes me forever. When the content guide states 27 hours should be dedicated to this material, for me it is way more like 40, which I think why I need the study aides vs writing down hundreds of index cards by hand. We shall see, for Chonicity I will have both :uhoh3:

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