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Beaufort County Community College 2024-2025 Catalog 
    
Beaufort County Community College 2024-2025 Catalog

Associate Degree Nursing (Registered Nursing) - LPN to RN


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(A45110T)

The Associate Degree Nursing-LPN to RN curriculum provides knowledge, skills, and strategies to integrate safety and quality into nursing care, to practice in a dynamic environment, and to meet individual needs which impact health, quality of life, and achievement of potential.

Course work includes and builds upon the domains of healthcare, nursing practice, and the holistic individual. Content emphasizes the nurse as a member of the interdisciplinary team providing safe, individualized care while employing evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics.

Graduates of this program are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN). Employment opportunities are vast within the global health care system and may include positions within acute, chronic, extended, industrial, and community health care facilities.

Nursing Technical Standards

Curriculum Flow Chart 

General Education Requirements


English - 3 Credits


English - Other - 3 Credits


Biology - 8 Credits


Humanities/Fine Arts - 3 Credits


Psychology - 3 Credits


Major Requirements


Core Courses - 43 Credits


Contingent upon the student’s unencumbered practical nursing license, and being admitted into the LPN to RN transition program, credit will be given for NUR 111 (Intro to Health Concepts), NUR 112 (Health-Illness Concepts), NUR 113 (Family Health Concepts), and NUR 114 (Holistic Health Concepts).

LPN to RN Requirement - 4 Credits


In the third semester (summer), LPN students complete NUR 214 (Nursing Transitions Concepts) course to assist in transitioning to the RN scope of Practice.

Required Courses - 3 Credits


Other Required Courses - 4 Credits


Student Success - 1 Credit


Number of Credit Hours Required for This Program: 75


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