I am currently a Excelsior College nursing student and very  proud to say that !!!  After having to drop out of a brick & motar school, Excelsior was my lifeline.  Excelsior gave back to me the ability to complete my nursing degree.  Since being in this program, I have learned so much strictly from my content that I did NOT learn in a traditional school.   This is not an easy program and for someone to say its the easy way, clearly has no ideal what an EC student is.  I for one and so Thankful for Excelsior and support any endeavor they undertake. 

I as a pt have had the pleasure of having an Excelsior College RN and I have had RNs from other programs as well.  I am here to tell you, I witnessed first hand,nursing at its best with my EC RN and that is exactly where I will be too.  I don't see that my clinical experience as a student in a traditional school is any better than the CPNE EC students must endure, this CPNE takes months to prepare for when in traditional school the student just goes and performs the skill after being checked off and from the clinicals that I participated in, the student did not have to perform the skill 100% as most did not in the clinical settings (hospitals) and as a EC student perfoming the skill in their CPNE, if it is not 100% the student is not succesful and does not move on.  

It is not only EC graduate RNs performing these CPNE, there are many traditional RNs, who went they pass a student, we as EC students know that student was perfect  and what an honor!!

Please reconsider your admitting policies to include Excelsior Nursing, we all have the same light in our eyes and would never stop short of providing excellent care and treatment to any patient in our care.

Thank you for your consideration on behalf of all the qualified nurses who know what it is to be a "RN" no matter where our degree is from.

~Debra J. Alexander