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CPNE for BSN Students About the CPNE Educational Requirements Skills Needed Clinical Sites Registering
About the CPNE (Clinical Performance in Nursing Examination) The CPNE tests the application of the nursing process and the technical component of practice in the care of adults and children in the acute care setting. Patients in this setting are experiencing potential actual, and/or recurring health problems requiring maintenance and restorative interventions. The examination is organized around three phases of the nursing process: planning, implementation, and evaluation. The planning phase subsumes assessment and analysis of information necessary for diagnosis. Interventions bases on sound assessments and diagnoses of patients' responses to their health problems are designed to maintain, restore, alleviate, and rehabilitate and are then evaluated for effectiveness. Critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning, use of knowledge from nursing and relate disciplines, and standards of care are measured in critical elements of this examination.
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Educational Requirements Must be enrolled in the Excelsior College (formerly Regents College) BSN program. Must have completed the written nursing examinations in Health Restoration I and Health Restoration II.
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Skills Needed
Lab Skills IM, SC Injections & IVP/Bolus medications Sterile Dressing Change IV PB Drip rate
Overriding Areas of Care Asepsis Caring Emotional Endangerment Mobility Physical Endangerment
Selected Areas of Care Abdominal Assessment Comfort Management Drainage Collection & Specimen Analysis Enteral Feeding General Survey Irrigation Medications Musculoskeletal Management Neurological Assessment Oxygen Management Pain Management Patient Teaching Peripheral Vascular Assessment Personal Cleanliness Respiratory Assessment Respiratory Management Wound & Skin Management Required Areas of Care & Overriding Areas of Care are to be Implemented in each PCS. In addition to these areas you will be assigned 3 selected areas of care for each PCS.
You will be expected to pass 2 adult PCS's and 1 pediatric PCS.
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Clinical Sites Phoenix, AZ Long Beach, CA San Francisco, CA San Diego, CA Atlanta, GA Lawrenceville, GA Columbus, OH Albany, NY Schenectady, NY Syracuse, NY Dallas, TX Madison, WI Racine, WI Milwaukee, WI
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Registering Must be in enrolled in Excelsior College. Request the application for the CPNE from Excelsior College, complete it and turn it in. Due to the large number of students in the program, the waiting period for clinicals will fluctuate.
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