Aiyana Hayes

Review of Fitzgerald Health Education As...

I was preparing to take my NP boards this year sin...

I was preparing to take my NP boards this year since I graduated in May 2019. This course was way too broad and the lectures were extremely long. Also the formatting of the video lectures is not very user friendly. It doesn't allow you to turn the volume up appropriately and there are several glitches with the online system. Also it's quite inconvenient that you buy the testing materials online and don't have instant access to it. You have to wait until the staff clocks in, in the morning to manually add it to your account, which wastes a lot of time when you have studying to do. Once I took the boards I didn't feel this course covered really any of the material that was on the test at all. The only thing that was helpful were the mnemonics for heart murmurs. I honestly felt if I hadn't have taken APEA's course after this one before taking the boards, that I would've failed the test. Also if you notice, this company does not have their board first time pass rates anywhere online like APEA does. I would not recommend this review course to anyone taking the boards. I don't think it's a good course for boards prep, it may be a good course for board certified new NP's. The material is way too detailed for the boards and does not focus on the content the boards requires you to know. Also the practice questions were nothing like the boards website practice questions. I honestly feel like you get way more for your money taking APEA's review course because the QBank questions are well formatted just like the boards questions. Also APEA keeps the content material concise and clear for understanding. If I could go back I wouldn't have wasted my money, time or energy on this course because it was not very helpful at all. This program is out of touch with what the certifying bodies expect you to know, especially for AANP. I think Dr. Fitzgerald is an amazing NP, but the review course needs to be greatly revised and formatted for the boards as advertised, not just for new NP practice edification.