Excel Vocational Center

1851 N. Gaffey Street

San Pedro, California 90731

310 514-4780

INTRODUCING POPPPSS(R) TEST

For VN/RN NCLEX Examination Prep

OBJECTIVE: To utilize the 8 levels of clinical thinking orientation of the TRUTH GRAPH ™

We’d like to invite interested students about to attempt the NCLEX (-RN,-PN) to come join us and take advantage of our modified learning programs. Designed from the ground up, our different methods ensure that each individual not only strengthens their chances of passing the exam, but builds a strong foundation of test taking strategies and techniques that might just make the difference between success and failure.

Only a limited amount of slots available. For more information, click HERE!

Anyone interested can call us at 310 514-4780 or leave us your information in the comment section below, and again, space is limited!

Congratulations to batch 02 as they are the first group to utilize our Truth Graph ™ Board as part of our POPPPSS(R) Modified Learning Process!

Student impressions:As a first time student of the nursing world, it would not be a stretch when I say I had no real clue as to what would be expected of me. Sure, I’ve finished the long ardous obstacle that is high school and I am no stranger to the college lecture hall, but let me tell you, this was a bit different.

A Modified Nursing Process:Books? Check. Multiple choice tests? Check. Computers? Check (but then again, nowadays any place had better!). Not so modified right? Sounds like most anything else right? Well, this is where the norm stops and no matter how deep of a veteran you are with the state school system, your going to have to start thinking a whole new way. Not to say that anything was radically different from what I had done my previous decade plus of education, but I gotta tell you, it was, for lack of a better word, strange.

My Meeting With POPPPSS(tm):So where was I, strange right? Unfamiliar was the better word but quickly did I become a natural with the program. Before I explain about what exactly is a modified nursing program (or the ardous task of deciphering the POPPPSS acronym), let me just put it out there right now that the beauty in the system is the fact that it is different! There are so many different people from so many backgrounds that any teacher worth his pay must modify, because I can tell you LAUSD is nice but their standards and style just wouldn’t work here. Rather than having the gifted students put on a pedestal (although I do miss it), away from the not so intellectual

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Greetings from Excel Vocational Center here in the South Bay of Southern California! It has been a great privilege to be amongst an eclectic group of bright individuals as we begin to reach the final stretch towards CNA certification. Although the roads that led us here originated from all walks of life, we are united by a common goal and driven towards the same destination: Success

As a student of Elijah’s modified nursing program, I was able to learn first hand about what it takes to not only become a competent, caring and confident CNA, but to be a competent, caring and confident individual ready to succeed universally, and that is the genius to the method. it should come as no surprise to anyone the vast amount of CNA programs offered at various colleges and vocational centers, but what really sets Excel apart is again, its method.

As a former journalism major, ive had more than my share of lectures, pop quizes, midterms, finals and so on. Did they help? Well, yes and no. Obviously one has to study in order to do well in any exam, so yes, they help by making one read the material in one form or another, but there in lies the problem. The basic college exam, be they multiple choice, open essay, etc., is simply a snapshot of where the student is at that certain point. Let me be the first to admit that after a test, the last thing i want to do is spend one more second on said topic.

What makes Elijah Nacionales’s POPPPSS Educational System different is that it reinforces our basic learning skills in order to provide a strong base and build from there. Problem solving, logical analysis, and plain ol’ repetition are just a few of the techniques used.

Mario Lopez Batch 02 CNA student

My goal is to be able to measure the level of confidence, competence and caring using the existing forms already being used.

Hopefully, this will be the foundation in screening the Modified Nursing Process(R) Practitioner in the future.

Developing…..

The Excel Vocational Center is glad to welcome our new group, Batch 97. They are a great group of people with diverse backgrounds. But each one has committed to learning with our Spatial Logic: Integrated Intelligence™ method. As a result, they started our image visualization process. This will help them to visualize the steps they ar learing for different caring situations.  They will be incorporating our computer program and they will be the first Batch to use our on-line image training as well. They will also be using our synergistic model which will have them  teaching each other with our truth graphs. We are proud to have Batch 97 ready to take on the challenges of our CNA program, and look forward to seeing each of them complete their training.

August 30, 2009

To our BATCH 96 (July 16-August 30) Class

The Excel Vocational Center teaches clinical skills that are specific and deliberate actions with clear guidelines for students to follow. It is not done in a random manner nor is it a result of unintended consequences.  It is a plan called the Modified Nursing Process® that took more than 20 years to develop both in long-term care facilities, acute care settings and classroom settings. The training program followed certain guidelines that run parallel to the Cone of Experience espoused by Edgar Dale (1946).

However, to be fully successful, it requires your full participation.  The Excel Vocational Center provided the necessary tools; but you honed your critical-thinking and clinical skills by putting in the hard work: by the computer, lab practice and actual clinical practice at SunnySide Nursing Center. You interacted very well with the staff and the residents. Above all, nursing care is about caring.

When you receive your Certification of Completion and educational awards, you will know that you prepared yourself for an engaging study program that will forever change your approach to nursing care. The more you participated and completed the entire exercises, the greater the likelihood that you will master the techniques you were taught. Your ultimate reward is being employable:  Confident, Competent and Caring, the hallmark of a Modified Nursing Process ® Practitioner.

One of the concepts I have developed, and being applied at the Excel Vocational Center, is the Spatial Logic: Integrated Intelligence®.  It is best described when you say-to my enjoyment- “I got it. It is so easy.” It is the moment when you cry out “Aha!”

It has been a pleasure to see Batch 96 grow from insecurity, at the start of our class, to confidence as the program progressed. You have practiced and studied as a team, and have taught each other. You have followed the instructions fully and with great gusto.  As each technique has to work in conjunctions with others, you have taken time to practice each technique thus you have mastered the Spatial Logic: Integrated Intelligence ® critical-thinking skills protocols. You have achieved what other groups achieved and more.

I say, “Thumbs up.”  Congratulations!

Elijah D. Nacionales RN SMN

Director, Nursing Assistant Program

Founder, Modified Nursing Process® Practitioner

The cornerstone of all the work we do at the Excel Vocational Center is centered on the POPPPSS® Pyramid. It was developed on the reseach done in logic and cognitive studies by Elijah Nacionales RN MSN (Pictured above with the pyramid). Part of that has already been posted here. It represents the four areas of the human knowledge base. The process of integrating the four areas of human knowledge base is called Spatial Logic: Integrated Intelligence®. The mechanism of Spatial Logic:Integrated Intelligence® has been documented byEdgar Dale in his famous cone of experience; reseach which was done at the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science.

With a lot of perseverance and teamwork, previous and current students have overcome many learning obstacles through the use of the computer. In the early 2000’s, the use of the computer was in its infancy in relation to the development of nursing notes. Though useful, the notes were uncoordinated, thus understanding the notes took more time.

But times have changed. Today the computer has become an integral part of our program and a favorite tool of our students. It makes it easier for students to cover notes. In addition, they have access to their grades and are able to monitor their progress, making feedback fast and only a click away.

All of this didn’t happen by accident. In fact, it was the result of strategic change after we got a lot of student feedback. In other words, it is a student-based outcome. They made an important contribution to how they would review work and be tested on the computer.

“I really love your computer program” says Iris Ortega, Batch 96 (July 16-August 30) student. “It really helps me learn fast. It is the best. We get high grades.” Since students are teamed up to work in groups during the computer’s use, it fosters bonding and improves the team dynamic.

One thing the students consider a big help is the free use of our program after school hours. It encourages the students to spend even more time studying and reviewing. In the end, by the virtue of their perseverance and teamwork, they become excellent students.

To learn more about our methods and school visit us at the  Excel Vocational Center