Welcome to Clinical Prep Exam!

 I'm Lynn Frederick, a graduate of Excelsior's Nursing Program and I understand what it takes to master this very difficult weekend. We offer a very effective and economical two-day clinical workshop to help you prepare for the Excelsior College Clinical Nursing Exam weekend. We are not a fly by night operation promising grand results in a days time.   

Everything for the Clinical Exam, required by Excelsior, is covered in this intensive workshop. When you leave the workshop you will have the skills and knowledge to pass every area of care required. You will know how to approach each Patient Care Scenario and the labs with the knowledge and the confidence to be successful. 

If you are getting ready for your CPNE and have attended my one of our workshops, please join our Yahoo group at

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We look forward to working with you and wish you well on your exam!

Let Us Help!

You have made an excellent choice for your education by choosing Excelsior University.  You have demonstrated that you have discipline and a strong knowledge base by completing your required exams! 

Join me in one of my workshops to help guide you through the requirements for passing the clinical weekend for graduation.

Once you have completed your study and think you are prepared  you may attend the Excelsior College workshop for validation. You can also re-attend our workshop at a discount.

Excelsior proclaims that their workshop is not a teaching workshop.

At Clinical Prep Exam we will teach you what it is you need to know to be successful on your clinical weekend.

Come Join us!

What to Ask Yourself when choosing a workshop!

Let me first inform you that I am not affiliated with Excelsior College. I am a graduate of their nursing program.  The Excelsior college workshop is the only official workshop for the CPNE. Anyone else stating that they are an official workshop is misleading you with untruths. We are independent companies performing a service.  No one but Excelsior college has an OFFICIAL CPNE WORKSHOP. 

The college does not endorse any other workshops but it's on. I have been teaching workshops for four years.  I am highly recommended and the most sought after workshop out there. Are there other good workshops yes, but to make sure you are choosing a good workshop ask yourself these following questions.  We, at Clinical Prep Exam want to see you be successful.  Do your homework on all available workshops before you make a choice! There are so many unqualified workshops, please make sure you choose a good one!

1) Is the instructor an Excelsior College Graduate?  You never want to take a workshop NOT taught by someone who has never been through the program! The instructor must understand your struggle and what it is the college is looking for! It is NOT possible to do that unless you have taken the CPNE. Observation or simply having RN behind your name could never take the place of the experience of taking the actual CPNE.

2) How long have they been in business? There are a lot of fly by night companies out there trying to start a workshop. Claiming to be graduates and claiming to do extensive study in unimaginable times.  Find out how long they ave been in business. You can't get good feedback if there aren't a few years behind them. Not when there is a 6 to 8 month CPNE wait time. Any company publishing a pass rate should have been in business for at least 2 yrs to establish true credibility. 

3) Can I talk to at least 5 or 6 people who have attended this workshop and get good feedback? Talk to people who can prove their graduation status. Don't just believe word through email. Verify that you are talking to a real graduate who can give you honest feedback. Talk to people on the EPN network.

4) Is the length of time right? When you add up the cost, the CPNE will end up running around $3000. When taking a workshop, make sure there is plenty of time to process the information and to ask the questions that you need answered. Cramming everything into a couple of hours to a day will prove to be non-effective.

5) Is it cost effective? Can I afford to go? In today's economy, at the cost of $3000 can you afford not to go?

6) Is there extra help if I need it? In studies it has been proven that you only retain 10% of what you hear, 20% of what you read. All of this information is overwhelming! Make sure there are other resources available to you that cover your areas of weakness.

7) What is the reputation of the instructors? Talk to students, real & verifiable EC graduates! This is where you will get your best information!

8)  Does this instructor talk over peoples head or is the material made simple enough that diverse backgrounds could easily understand it?  Make sure that the inforrmation that you are taking in is not so limited, so advanced, so accelerated and so condensed that you retain nothing of what you went to learn. A big study guide is no good if the instructor's explanation was not understood. 

9) Does the workshop  have a proven track record?  Look for feedback from students who have passed! This is where you will find what it is you need to know to make your workshop choice! Make sure there is verifiable contact information for referrals.