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Nursing Advanced Placement Option - Claremont (LPN to RN)

Course Requirements
ID Title Class Lab Credits
Summer Semester (year 1)
NURC210 Self - Care Nursing IV
8 wk clinical
2 18** 5
NURC118 Advanced Placement Seminar 1 0 1
Fall Semester (year 2)
ENGCxxx English Elective 3 0 3
SCIC205 Microbiology
(SCIC101 or 201 or matriculation in CLT program)
3 3 4
NURC115 Self Care Nursing: Mental Health/Mental Illness
(NURC112, SCIC202) First 8 wks
2 3 3
NURC211 Self-Care Nursing V
(NURC210)Second 8d wks
2 18** 5
Spring Semester (year 2)
NURC221 Self-Care Nursing VI
(NURC211)First 8 wks
3 15 6
HUMCxxx Humanities/Fine Arts/World Language Elective 3 0 3
NURC222 Self - Care Nursing VII
(NURC221) Second 8 wks
2 18** 5
NURC229 Issues, Trends and Management
(NURC211)
1 0 1

Prerequisite & Co-requisites are listed in parentheses.

** Second year course with a three-hour lab in addition to clinical rotation.

Students who transfer college credits for 13 semester hours for NURC112 and NURC114 or receive 80% pass rate on the NLN Challenge examination for the LPN may be given transfer credit for NURC112 and NURC114.

(CLAREMONT-Day Program)

RN Program Information Sessions are required. Click here for schedule. For more information, please contact Arlene Halsted ext. 427.

The transition option is designed to expand upon the previous education of the Licensed Practical Nurse. Students applying to this option follow the application and selection criteria for the Nursing-Associate Degree. Advanced Placement Option applicants are also requried to interview individually with the Program Director during the application process.

Thirteen nursing credits may be transferred from the basic practical nursing program. An Accelerated Challenge Examination - National League for Nursing ACE is available for those students whose basic practical nurse programs do not qualify for transfer of credits. (Students may contact admissions or more information). One year of experience as an LPN is required. Recent graduates are considered on an individual basis. Graduates of practical nursing programs who are not yet licensed are considered on an individual basis.
Qualified applicants are notified by April 1 each year. The Advanced Placement Option students enter the program in summer semester and can complete the program in three semesters. If enrollment is not sufficient to offer this option, the advanced placement applicant may be offered early acceptance to the following summer semester.

The following degree requirements must be completed before the students can enroll in the LPN to RN advanced placement option:

  • Anatomy & Physiology I
  • Anatomy & Physiology II
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Mathematics Elective
  • College Composition I