CaliLVN-RN

To be licensed in Arizona the clinicals must be completed after CPNE and before graduation. It's part of your transcripts just like Oklahoma. The others won't show up on your transcripts

Thank you for thinking of me. Excelsior already gave me a list of hospitals along with the breakdown of clinical hours in which areas of nursing. They were very cooperative. If any of the Arizona graduates are on here I would love to hear from them. Thanks again Pixie for the advise

Did anybody find any schools? There are refresher courses that do offer in OB but it's not a semester long. The CA BRN is miserable. They were under scrutiny a few years back regarding other issues.

They lead you on a wild goose chase to nowhere. All they want is your money and then then will tell you no.

Is there anybody out there who is a grad of Excelsior College ADN program or anybody a current student. Please PM me. Thanks a bunch

Welcome!!!!!! Best of luck

That's CA for you! They are a pain in the ass when it comes to endorsement. Ask them to give you "within reason" options to remedy the deficiency. They have authority to regulate CA nursing school but DO NOT have the authority to regulate out of state nursing schools. Don't be surprised if they refer you to BVNPT or ask you to attend a CA approved nursing program. They are notorious for that. No nursing school will take you since you already hold a RN license from another state. Someone needs to sue the pants out of the BRN for their rediculous requests.

No I live in the Bay Area

We weren't allowed to use anything on our phones for clinicals. They had us learn them the old fashioned way. We had to memorize them. It's time consuming but definitely worth it. I also recommend getting medscape on your phone because it's simple to use and it's pretty easy to understand.

You will get a list of drugs while in nursing school. But you can get a head start by purchasing a hard copy of a drug book and looking for a list of the most commonly used drugs. My drug book was Mosbys and it had a list inside. You can also do a search on the most commonly used drugs and you will find it. Start your list and add drugs as you come across them trust me this will help you save countless hours of flash card making and you can use the time your saving studying for exams. I still have most of my drug cards.

As far as knowing all the drugs YES! the drugs that you go over in class and also the ones that you come across in nursing school. I wish someone would have told me to do that before I started school. That would have saved me countless hours of flash card making. It's impossible to know every single drug out there.

Thanks for the advise CrisRicci. I am studying reproductive right now. I think it's too much information because I tend to over analyze things and assume the worse. I like how SG101 breaks the courses down into sections. I have been doing practice exams and they have plenty but I'm not doing good on SATA questions. I've missed them all so far . I know I'm retaining but I don't know if I'm retaining enough

I am using SG101 but there is just too much information. I made flash cards too and use them but I wanna prepare myself good before I take the reproductive exam.

Was anybody a surgical tech before?

If you're a BSN graduate why do you want to do a bridge program? If you're a legal resident/citizen then you should be ok for any school. FYI: 99.9% of private colleges are expensive. If the you weren't granted licensure in CA ask then to provide you with "approved" programs that will accept you as a student. Especially since they are asking you to do something rediculous as to repeat a whole nursing program. I don't know of any schools that will accept you with a nursing education already.