What is the difference in the EC exams?

[Italianprincess]

Is there a difference in the EC Nursing Concepts 1-7 and the new exams for 2008 with different names? Was it just a name change?

Essentials of Nursing Care: Health Safety, Health Differences, Chronicity, Reproductive Health

Health Differences Across the Life Span 1-3

Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse Role

I am wanting to use a friend's 2007 College Network Nursing Concepts 1-7 books. I just enrolled and I have all of my nursing textbooks from last year and she was going to loan me her nursing concepts.

Do you think it's worth the risk or should I buy all of the books that Excelsior is selling in the bookstore? :uhoh21:

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

It was a little more than renaming -- they added a few sections and moved some things around. Here's a quick summary:

Essentials of Nursing Care: Health Safety = NC1

Essentials of Nursing Care: Health Differences = NC2

Essentials of Nursing Care: Chronicity = NC3 + functional assessment (new) + end of life care (new)

Essentials of Nursing Care: Reproductive Health = NC3 + congenital anomalies (was in NC4)

Health Differences Across the Life Span 1 = NC4 (minus congenital anomalies)

Health Differences Across the Life Span 2 = NC5 + cognitive assessment (new)

Health Differences Across the Life Span 3 = NC6

Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse = NC7/Foundations of Professional Practice

There are a few things that I might be missing or can't remember, but that's it in a nutshell. :)