Where are each of you in the EC program?

Jo Dirt · Dec 2, 2004

Hello everyone!! I am working on NC2 as we speak!! I have only taken NC1 made a B still have all my pre-reqs and NC2-7 to complete. I will be here forever and ever.

I've just taken NC 1 too, and I also made a B.

Only prereq I have left is A&P though.

Laurie888 · Dec 3, 2004

I think taking 1&2 is an option but I am not quite sure if I need 2 if I am an LPN. Does anyone know?
I am also thinking one test per month but we will have to see how it goes.

I think you get to skip NC2 if you had a B average in your LPN program.

Jo Dirt · Dec 3, 2004

I think you get to skip NC2 if you had a B average in your LPN program.

If you made a B in the LPN program and you have graduated within the last 5 yrs. you have the option of possibly being able to skip NC 2.

opalmRN · Dec 3, 2004

If you made a B in the LPN program and you have graduated within the last 5 yrs. you have the option of possibly being able to skip NC 2.

It is my understanding one has to be a licensed PN in addition to having completed an approved PN program with at least a B in the last 5 years. The licensure would be worth checking into.

PatrickJ · Dec 6, 2004

I am registered at Excelsior. I will be more than glad to participate and offer what help I can.

A few of us in Florida have a new forum which will be focused on distance learning. I have posted on other threads about anyone who wishes to read our forum. Feel free to share stories and ideas also.

Thanks

Patrick

http://citruslocal.com

opalmRN · Dec 6, 2004

I am registered at Excelsior. I will be more than glad to participate and offer what help I can.
A few of us in Florida have a new forum which will be focused on distance learning. I have posted on other threads about anyone who wishes to read our forum. Feel free to share stories and ideas also.
Thanks
Patrick
http://citruslocal.com

Thanks, I bookmarked citruslocal for future visits. Can never have too much help along the way. :)

Thanks Patrick!

PatrickJ · Dec 6, 2004

:)

bellcollector · Dec 10, 2004

This is the most awesome thread. It has me so jazzed. I do have a quick question/need for advice. My study bud and I are on micro, having passed ethics and NC1. We are getting frustrated after only a couple of weeks. So much info, the disease processes are interresting but the rest is killing us. Do you think we should put it aside for a bit and go on to NC2 or just stay the course? Thanks a bunch and again it is great to have this thread.

BBFRN, BSN, PhD · Dec 10, 2004

I would go ahead and take Micro. Knowing those disease processes will help you with the nursing courses. Do you belong to one of the Yahoo groups that has Micro study materials? I know they're out there, because I found some for a friend. If not, it's worth a try to get them. There are notes and practice tests out there. For the record, my friend said the exam wasn't as hard as she thought it would be. She studied for about a month for this exam.

Jo Dirt · Dec 10, 2004

This is the most awesome thread. It has me so jazzed. I do have a quick question/need for advice. My study bud and I are on micro, having passed ethics and NC1. We are getting frustrated after only a couple of weeks. So much info, the disease processes are interresting but the rest is killing us. Do you think we should put it aside for a bit and go on to NC2 or just stay the course? Thanks a bunch and again it is great to have this thread.

I passed NC 1 a few weeks ago, passed A&P this past Tuesday, came right home and registered for Microbiology that same day, and have just sceduled to take that for December 23. Yesterday I sent in my enrollment form and fee for enrolling in Excelsior! I'm so jazzed I'm glowing! I have most of my prereq's out of the way, and just lack Micro and Lifespan Development. After I finish micro I'm going to get through the nursing concepts courses so I can register to take the CPNE. Then I'll worry about lifespan.

Man, you just got to plow on in and get boogeyin'! Get funky!

I'm lucky to have a night job where I just sit there 95% of the time. So I use that time to study. I'm using an old rickety Micro textbook and Cliffs Notes for Microbiology, and going through the study guide provided by EC. I'm discovering that Microbiology is a lot of fun! DO NOT give your money to a publishing company. I have a friend who paid $500 for a sociology course, studied the material and failed her exam! She said there wasn't a thing in that study guide that helped her. She is now getting ready to retake sociology studying with the EC study guide. I have also seen the study guides they put out for A&P...a bunch of gobbeldy goop that will clutter your mind with stuff you don't need to know to pass the test. What you need to know to pass the test is on the study guides provided to you by Excelsior.

Good luck!:)

crazdmomof4 · Dec 22, 2004

I passed Life Span Developmental Pscyh! :rotfl: Now it's on to Mirco, which I'm dreading.
Anyway, according to the Excelsior catalog, you can take NC1 and NC2 before enrolling, and as an LPN NC2 can be waived as long as you complete the LPN program with a B or better and the program was accredited by the NLNAC or registered by the NYS Education Dept and you completed the program within the past 5 years.
Hope that helps.

I will be starting an LPN program in September and will take excelsior's RN program right after graduation, are you happy with excelsior? Is there program, practical or is it a cake walk? I only ask because I don't want to invest in an education that isn't respected and applicable. Please don't take offense, I don't mean it that way at all. I am just fed up with being on waitlists forever.

Edith

PatrickJ · Dec 22, 2004

I do not believe it is a cakewalk. I hope not. Nobody has ever said it was easy. The word I see often is "doable".

In my 20 year career as a police officer, I was an instructor in the academy. I told my students, basic and advanced that they would learn more on their first day on the street than any classroom would teach them.

Same for nursing. In my 9 years as an LPN, I have learned tons. I see new LPN's. new RN's and the day they start to work, the learning begins.

Get your LPN, work,learn and then apply that knowledge to anything you do. Excelsior college will not make you nurse ready, only test ready. (note, learning from excelsior will help your nursing skills, of course)

I have found it to be most respected. It is the only distance learning school listed on the Florida nursing website. My hospital scholarships excelsior. Many nurses have gone this route. I also believe some are afraid to say they did distance learning.

I will be glad to tell people I did. I think it is a smart move. This method only lets me learn nursing faster as am RN.

Personally, I would suggest anyone take classes like A&P micro etc thru a regular school. The labs are helpful and nothing beats slides, skeletons, and glad happy Micro teachers hehehehehe.

To self learn the nursing concepts is a natch for distance learning. I too dislike wait lists. So I deleted the concept from my vocabulary. While you learn as an lpn, take your harder sciences at college, and then take the bare minimum from Excelsior. Again, my opinion.

Hope this helps.