Registered for FCCA!!!

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Specializes in PACU.

The good news is that it is still on paper, they are sending mine out and I should have it by the end of next week!! Excited to get started on this "mystery" exam, is anyone able to share approx how long it takes? I want to make sure I have enough time set aside for it. Thanks!!

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I don't know anything about the FCCA! Finished right before the deadline! Good luck!! I hope to be the first to welcome you to crazyland when you start with the CPNE prep!

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well meg hopefully i will be right with you next week and waiting for my fcca!!! where are you going to take your clinicals? are you planning on doing a workshop?

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Specializes in PACU.

Thanks everyone!!

princess1125- I will be taking the CPNE somewhere in the NPAC. Still haven't decided where yet or if I will pick any site. I'm leaning towards Utica or York just because I am used to the smaller community hospital setting. And I don't know if I'll be taking a workshop, I know I should but I don't know if I'll have the money and time to go. Where will you be testing?

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hey meg-going to test at med central in ohio or york in pa. don't really have the money for a workshop but figure i better because it's cheaper than retaking the clinical. and i hear tina logan in pa rocks. email me cause it looks like we're going through this together.

dianna

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Specializes in LTC,acute care, and corrections.

Wow Meg, it seems just a short time ago you were talking about your last exam & now your awaiting the FCCA, keep up the good work! The FCCA won't take long to do thats why they give you 10 days, you will be able to complete in a day or two. I keep up with all the boards & within one year I have only heard of one person failing so that saids alot.

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Specializes in icu,er,w/c.

Hey MEG and Princess1125,

I am in the same boat with you guys. My FCCA will be here Tuesday and I registered for the CPNE on Friday in Lubbock, TX. I am signed up to attend Lynn's workshop in Dallas March 19/20. I hear good things hope it's worth the money. So if you guys need to vent or want to chat I am available and can completely sympathize. BTW Meg, are you an RT? I only ask because my husband has been an RT for 20 years. -christy

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I dont mean to sound ignorant but what is FCCA?? Thxs.

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Specializes in LTC,acute care, and corrections.

Sunnybrooke, its not an ignorant question at all! FCCA stands for focused clinical competency assessment. Its the final exam from Excelsior before the cpne. Right now its an open book exam that is mailed to you once you finish your nursing theory exams but they have been trying for some time to get it computerized so that you can take it at a pearsonvue but they are having difficulties & constantly delaying it.

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Specializes in wound care, sub-acute, community nursing.

God, I hope it's still on paper when I take it!!

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Everybody is on their way! :)

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