Newbie to site! Excelsior student working on Chronicity!

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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?

Specializes in Home Health, Podiatry, Neurology, Case Mgmt.

I'm working on Chrono too right now. I test on the 28th! Good luck to you, i'm using rnbridgeprogram.com online lectures, and chancellors guide as well as the recommended textbooks. took this past week off of studying due to me having surgery but i'm back on the ball now...gotta cram alot of info for this one!

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.
I'm working on Chrono too right now. I test on the 28th! Good luck to you, i'm using rnbridgeprogram.com online lectures, and chancellors guide as well as the recommended textbooks. took this past week off of studying due to me having surgery but i'm back on the ball now...gotta cram alot of info for this one!

Good Luck to your test in 2 weeks! Let us know how it goes! :up: In your signature you state you will be doing a humanities in Feb. Are you going to do that with Excelsior, and if so, do you know what class you will take?

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Specializes in Home Health, Podiatry, Neurology, Case Mgmt.

I'm either taking Bioethics & philosophy through excelsior for the six credits that my grant will pay for, or else i may just spend the 82 bucks and take the analyzing and interpreting literature CLEP exam for the 6 credits but i haven't decided yet. =)

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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:

I am trying to do one a month also. Will be starting transitions soon and I heard it is very boring also. I am scared about the lifespan exams. A lot of the ladies say its really hard that's why I am saving them for last.

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.
I am trying to do one a month also. Will be starting transitions soon and I heard it is very boring also. I am scared about the lifespan exams. A lot of the ladies say its really hard that's why I am saving them for last.

Why are the lifespan exams more difficult? I am hoping that at some point through this process, things will flow more smoothly as we cement our study habits through this testing process. I am very anxious to be able to start putting some things to practice, like writing some care plans with case scenarios, etc.

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I don't know. I hope I can get through them without failing and falling off track.

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

I just took a peak at the EPN board at LS 1, and it seems like the students are posting more B/C grades vs A/B, and some students posting about an abudance of content. I am so eager to get there, I think I am going to try for my Chronicity exam Nov 1.

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Good Luck. I wanna have 3 exams done before the New Year. I feel like I have so far to go compared to a lot of ppl on here that are almost done and doing the cpne.

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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.

I am new to this site and reading posts. I had a rough start getting started with this program, I am taking H&S now. Do you think the StudyGroup101 was very helpful for this exam? I took the practice exams and made a 58,61. So now I am wondering what to do now, I thought I was ready but with those scores it seems like maybe I am not. Any advice woould help thanks.

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I am new to this site and reading posts. I had a rough start getting started with this program, I am taking H&S now. Do you think the StudyGroup101 was very helpful for this exam? I took the practice exams and made a 58,61. So now I am wondering what to do now, I thought I was ready but with those scores it seems like maybe I am not. Any advice woould help thanks.

That sounds like a very good score for your practice tests. I think a lot of it is figuring out how they ask the questions, not so much that you really don't know the info. Just read all of the answers on your test. For my last exam (I did fine, got an A), I got 45 for the first one and 60 on the second try. I used StudyGroup101 a lot. After you read the rationales and study a bit more. Make note of what you missed or got right, but guessed on while you read & go over weak spots, etc., you will probably be ready in the very near future.

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Thanks, I appreciate the advice. You are right about how they ask the questions, that is my main problem is reading it wrong. I think I might look into the studygroup 101. I am trying to be ready for this exam in 2 weeks. This is my first one and don't want to fail.

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Studygroup 101 is basically all the same info I have in my binder from tcn. They have a lot of practice tests. That's what I am workin on now. I also downloaded the ec content guide and did the quiz at the end and only got 5 wrong. It had a lot of the same questions from the tcn practice test online. I am ready to test and my transitions binder already came. I am itching to start it but don't wanna start it until I test out of health and safety.

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