kudos to SeasonedRN
To stay in business College Network had to change its name from Rue Educational because of a long history of problems and complaints, and they actually just add greatly to the expense of your nursing program- you can do better without them. All the study materials you could ever actually use can be bought hundreds cheaper at Ebay, but you will not have time to mess around with attempting shortcuts if you just do like Excelsior wants and read the book assignments like SeasonedRN did successfully. Most of all, the newly rewritten NCLEX-RN hammers you very hard on your weakest areas to see if you KNOW TOO LITTLE TO BE LICENSED (capital letters for emphasis in new test approach) rather than old testing basis which checked whether you knew just enough minimum to get a license. So, you need a system like SeasonedRN described to get ready- I used her same system to get my LPN, and I was glad when I took the new NCLEX-PN. I ran out of money while needing only 2 more semesters to finish my LPNtoRN conventional classroom program, so I am going to work and do the Excelsior nursing program directly through Excelsior without any expensive middlemen (who needs a College Network [formerly Rue] collection agency?). One advantage of Excelsior is less classroom pressures and less job problems while you are both working and studying. I do suggest that you use TN's RODP Program (Regents Online Degree Program at https://rodp.org) to do some classes thru a community college to get your prerequisites affordably and without job problems- you will get an official accredited transcript from that community college just like the folks who sat in a classroom, and you can even do accredited online Labs (Wow!) in anatomy/physiology and in microbiology, etc. Your RODP online class skills will help you later to do Excelsior online. You can work while getting your associates RN degree. It is all about an RN license. Go for it.
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