The Excelsior College School of Nursing is led by seasoned nursing professionals who possess substantial practical experience and advanced academic degrees in nursing. The School is a designated National League for Nursing (NLN) Center of Excellence in Nursing Education, and eligible students can be inducted into the International Honor Society of Nursing.
In 2017, New York became the first state to mandate that registered nurses earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Called the BSN in 10 law, it requires nurses to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing within 10 years after first getting their RN license. Signed into law on Dec. 19, 2017, BSN in 10 …
Marianne Brennan Believes Being a Nurse Means Advocating for Others Marianne Brennan believes in advocating for people who can’t speak up for themselves. Now a faculty program director for Excelsior College’s associate degree in nursing program, Brennan has an extensive background as an operating room nurse, and throughout her career has always put her patients …
Phyllis St. John Believes Being a Nurse Means Always Being Compassionate For Phyllis St. John, being a nurse helps make her who she is. She says, “As soon as I started doing it, I knew it was what I was meant to do.” St. John works 12-hour night shifts, three days a week at Glens …
What is Magnet status and what does it mean to nurses? Does having the designation improve the work environment? Does it mean recognition for staff? Better patient care and outcomes? How difficult is it to achieve? To maintain? What impact on my day-to-day responsibilities will there be in a Magnet organization? What is Magnet Status? …
Associate Degree Nursing students get CPNE and class help from faculty phone calls. Nursing school resources help ADN students succeed at Exelsior College.
Lynda Yazhari passed the Clinical Performance in Nursing Examination in November 2018 at Covenant Health Systems in Lubbock, Texas, on her first attempt and at 25 weeks pregnant. With the accomplishment under her belt, Yazhari plans to move ahead in her career and fulfill her dream of becoming a neonatal intensive care unit nurse. Yazhari …
Darhon Rees-Rohrbacher’s career path has been as colorful as her personality. She has been a lifeguard, a nurse’s aide, a music teacher, a Spanish teacher, a Kelly Girl, and a registered nurse. Her wealth of experience eventually led her to Excelsior where she has been a faculty program director for the associate degree nursing program …
In 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that ethnic and racial minority groups accounted for more than one- third of the country’s population and projected the U.S. will become a plurality nation by 2048. This means that no one ethnic or racial group will make up the majority of the population. With the country’s makeup growing ever …
Patricia Posey will never forget the day that she passed the Clinical Performance in Nursing Exam; it was on what would have been her grandmother’s birthday: November 11. Posey’s grandmother was the one who had encouraged her to become an RN. She told Posey to pursue the nursing path when Posey was a young girl. …
The color white signifies purity, innocence, cleanliness, honesty, and faith. These are qualities of the devoted and caring patient-centered nurse. While white uniforms have been associated with nursing for a long time, this was not the case historically and the uniform has evolved over time. The History of White Uniforms for Nurses The first professional …
