Mudwoman

Mudwoman

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  1. Excelsior Grads...

    Mudwoman replied to GIDGET3411's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I couldn't get a study guide until I had applied to take the CPNE, so I don't know what to tell you. EC sent me an application package once I was eligible. You must have 21 of the 31 required...

  2. Leaving in the Am for my CPNE!!

    Mudwoman replied to Melody007_FNP-C's topic in Online Distance Learning

    You go

  3. $17.00 Hr. Starting Wage For RN?

    Mudwoman replied to krazykev's topic in General Nursing

    For a new RN grad with no experience, the starting wage is $17.50 hr. If you have been an LPN, they give you credit for half the time you have been an LPN, so your starting pay is higher. So, for...

  4. CPNE process

    Mudwoman replied to Boston-RN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    There is always a 4-9 month wait list for the CPNE exam. Excelsior will send you an application package when you are eligible to apply. You must have a current CPR card when you

  5. CPNE Workshop

    Mudwoman replied to nberry255's topic in Online Distance Learning

    i think it would be very, very difficult to pass the cpne without a workshop. i did the excelsior

  6. CPNE Workshop

    Mudwoman replied to nberry255's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Excelsior has workshops for $745 June 12-14 or Aug 6-8 in Dallas, TX Jun 19-21 or Aug 14-16 in Georgia Jun 19-21 or Sept 25-27 in California July 9-11 in Wisconsin July 16-18 in NY July 17-19 in...

  7. Excelsior Exams?

    Mudwoman replied to Steven McCullum's topic in Online Distance Learning

    10% is on the Nursing Process: Characteristics of the nursing process, application of the nursing process. Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, interventions, implementation, evaluation,...

  8. ashamed and hopeless

    Mudwoman replied to amc7791's topic in Nursing Career

    Your biggest problem is that you have no moral compass. False documentation......lied to get a job....taking prescription med that isn't your's. If you can join the military and be a nurse there,...

  9. Writing Up Inmates

    Mudwoman replied to Sheri257's topic in Correctional

    I don't take anything off an inmate. The first time they yell at me, I have the guard take them back to barracks. I also never write any of them up. Word gets around. I have very few problems, and...

  10. Looks a hinderance to being hired?

    Mudwoman replied to newtress's topic in Correctional

    you must not work for cms. the absolute worse boss i have ever

  11. Oncology? or Neuro?

    Mudwoman posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I just graduated with AAS and should be taking NCLEX-RN in 3-4 weeks. I have been LVN/LPN for 13 years. I have worked telemetry and med-surg and dialysis. Where I currently work, they only have one...

  12. What makes the CPNE so hard?

    Mudwoman replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Online Distance Learning

    THe CPNE is $1725. If you add in the transportations costs and the hotel for 3 days, you are over $2K. Then if you bought the skills bag for $105 and did the care plan conference (which I highly...

  13. Jehovah's Witnesses & Blood Transfusions

    Mudwoman replied to Jerry1234's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt once that was J Witness. She had been in a car accident and her Hct had gotten down to 7. Of course was refusing blood. I talked with the family about the belief and why they would let...

  14. passed CPNE!!

    Mudwoman replied to nurse1717's topic in Online Distance Learning

    YEA!!!!:monkeydance: Way to go girl! So happy for you! It is a great feeling isn't it?

  15. Passed CPNE this weekend in Plano

    Mudwoman posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    Just got home. Passed with no

  16. Passed CPNE this weekend in Plano

    Mudwoman replied to Mudwoman's topic in Online Distance Learning

    NC exams are styled like the NCLEX where you apply the knowledge to the nursing process. Each exam is 160 questions. You can get the study guides off of the Excelsior web site for free once you are...

  17. Tcn/ec

    Mudwoman replied to R0xyg4l's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Kristina, I tallied up what I have spent for Excelsior and it comes out to about $8K counting books and everything. That doesn't include the $4K I wasted on College Network. Excelsior provides study...

  18. Can you believe this?

    Mudwoman replied to ex1140's topic in Correctional

    We are the Department of Community Corrections. We do not have a DON. We do have a Health Services Administrator and she is an RN, but doesn't do direct patient care and is there from 7am-3pm. We...

  19. CMS or hospital?

    Mudwoman replied to military spouse's topic in Correctional

    Had one the other day file a grievance because we were not getting him his dilantin and we were going to cause him to have a seizure and get hurt. He had been there just 3 days. Come to find out...

  20. CMS or hospital?

    Mudwoman replied to military spouse's topic in Correctional

    I work for CMS. I don't think much of them. Recently, a guard who had the hots for one of our nurses (she refused his constant come-ons and she is engaged to be married) made false allegations that...

  21. Can you believe this?

    Mudwoman replied to ex1140's topic in Correctional

    I can't get out of prison nursing fast enough. I just graduated from Excelsior and I'm just waiting for all the paper work so I can take NCLEX. Our prison doesn't employee RN's, so thankfully, I'm...

  22. Excelsior questions :)

    Mudwoman replied to MadamMermaid's topic in LPN to RN

    Already sold my TCN study guides. Excelsior provides free ones once you have

  23. Excelsior questions :)

    Mudwoman replied to MadamMermaid's topic in LPN to RN

    I just graduated from Excelsior. Excelsior takes anyone that qualifies into their RN program. This would include LPN/LVNs, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and students that have completed over...

  24. Thinking about Excelsior

    Mudwoman replied to AmyORlpn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I graduated LVN school in Ft Worth, TX in 1994. I worked until 1999 and then hubby started getting moved all over with his job at IBM. I didn't work again until 2003 when we found ourselves in...

  25. Right Direction?

    Mudwoman replied to jbrekson's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Plan to get a job in a hospital as a