ChrisRicci

Would it be an idea to send a letter to the Dean asking for an exception because of your upcoming deployment? Maybe they would grant that you be placed at the top of the cancellation list or moved up? By the way, Thank You for your service!

So all you know about 'Alternative Medicine' is what you read on the internet? Shouldn't that be a clue for you? Allopathic medicine and Big Pharma will diss any treatment that they cannot make a billion $$ on. And they will lie to do it and plaster it on the internet and use their $$ to persecute dedicated and conscientious practitioners. 'Alternative' and herbal medicines have been around for centuries. Numerous currently prescribed medications were built on or made from such herbal medicines (think Metformin). Are there quacks out there? Of course there are. There are also some doctors and nurses whom I wouldn't let touch my dog, let alone myself or a family member. The UK embraces Integrative & Alternative medicine and their population tends to be healthier and their medical costs are a fraction of the US. Explain that. As a nurse you should know there is always more than one way to get results. Just because you have mainstream recognized 'credentials' doesn't mean you know everything.

Careplan Class

they have an audio review now that i hear is pretty good:nurse:

Congratulations!

You can do math beginning algebra through Aleks and life span development through CLEP or DSST. If you google excelsior clep you can download the student book that has the clep exams in it. You have to take a&p and micro before the nursing classes, but you could do the clep or aleks at the same time, if you have time that is. It took me 14 months start to finish and I took DSST life span & religions before I enrolled, each was about 3 weeks. Already had math and english credits that transferred. I spent about 3 weeks each on a&p and micro, I had them before so they weren't bad. The Analyzing literature clep I've heard is quite easy and is 6 humanities credits. Info lit only takes a few hours online to complete. With intense study you could probably do an exam every 2-3 weeks or so and then 8 weeks for fcca and 3-6 month wait for cpne. I didn't take any of the online courses, just the exams. studygroup101 was my key resource and they have audio now too.

You can go to the bookstore and it will tell you what books are recommended but you should buy them used on amazon or ebay, much cheaper.

Study Guides

Congratulations!

the study guides have a how to page that tells you exactly what pages are the study guide part. everyone that i used was less than 200 page, most under 100. the how to page is like page 2 or 3. the rest is for extra if you have trouble with a certain section you can use that to do more in depth studying. you should email them if you have questions, they are really good about answering questions.

It's all health promotion and prevention one area leads right into the next and they overlap. Health promotion, Pain, chronic illness, death - it's heavier on pain and sensory so know those areas.

Better too much than not enough I say. Why do you think it's too much information? It's not as many pages as the textbook and all the sg101 I've used have like 50 times the number of practice questions. They say practice questions help you learn. Thats why the they tell you to do hundreds every day when studying for the nclex. And it is actually a 2 class course, anp1 and 2 at college level. There's going to be alot of information. You can do it though just go through one section at a time and before you know it you'll be at the last section.

I've seen a couple posts where people have completed the nursing courses in 4 months (that's A LOT of WORK!!) then you'll have 2 months for fcca and you could do life span dev or english at the same time, then 4 months for CPNE - all in all if you work your butt off you could probably do the program in less than a year.

i think it all depends on your study habits, level of comprehension, and experience. Most people, i think, would say that health safety was one of the easier ones, as well as health differences (both fundamentals review from PN) and reproductive health. Some people really have a hard time with LS1, but it seems if you were in EMS or a paramedic you will breeze through that one because its cardiac and respiratory. Everyone is different.

Even if you decide to use the books, it wouldn't hurt to get studygroup101 because they have oodles and oodles of practice quizzes, like 1000 in each study guide and for $10 you can't beat it with a stick .