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Advanced Placement Option - For Practical Nurses

RN Program Information Sessions are required - see schedule on homepage.

The Claremont and Keene Advanced Placement Option (AP) is designed to expand upon the previous education of the Practical Nurse. The application and selection process is the same as for the Nursing – Associate Degree (see page 42). Applicants are encouraged to meet with nursing faculty. This program begins every summer.

Applications must be received in the Office of Admissions by Feb. 28 for the application to be placed in the applicant pool. Applicants have until April 1 (prior to the summer semester start for which they are applying) to forward all application requirements. The completed application materials must be on file in the Office of Admissions by April 1 for application to be considered.

Equivalent nursing credits may be transferred from the applicants’ basic practical nursing program. A B- is required in all nursing courses being transfered in. An Accelerated Challenge Examination (ACE) a National League for Nursing Exam is available for those students whose basic practical nurse programs do not qualify for transfer of credits. If the ACE score is 80% or higher, equivalent credits of nursing can transfer. AP students enter into the second year of the Associate Degree Nursing program. Students must be matriculated into the Advanced Placement Option to enter the program of study. The following degree requirements must be completed with an achieved grade of C or better before admission to the (AP) Advanced Placement Option:

• Anatomy & Physiology I
  (High School Chemistry)  ............................4 Semester Credits
• Anatomy & Physiology II  ........................... 4 Semester Credits
• Introduction to Psychology  .........................3 Semester Credits
• Mathematics Elective (Accuplacer)  .............  4 Semester Credits
• College Composition I (Accuplacer)  ............ 3 Semester Credits
  

Microbiology, Anatomy and Physiology I, Anatomy and Physiology II, and Introduction to Psychology must be successfully completed within ten years of entrance. All general education courses must be completed with a grade of C or better to transfer into the program.