Nursing Program College Guidelines

Ashland Community and Technical College

The Systems Guidelines for Admission will be followed except that:

Readmission

To be considered for readmission to the nursing program, the student must:

1. Have support letters from two previous nursing instructors; one must be clinical and one must be didactic.
2. Demonstrate competency in the course immediately preceding the course in which the student was unsuccessful. This will be evidenced by the student achieving a minimum score, designated by the program, on a standardized, nationally normed examination for the preceding course. Testing will be scheduled by the program coordinator or designee based upon student preparation and test availability. Students may take the exam one time. If the student does not pass with the minimal score or better, the student will be given the option to reapply to Nursing 101 during the next application cycle. All standardized testing will be at the student’s expense. Once posted to the student’s account, fees are non-refundable.
3. Validate understanding of nursing clinical skills by randomly selecting two nursing skills and performing the skills with 100% accuracy from a pool learned up to the point where the student was unsuccessful. If the student is successful on the standardized exam and the skills evaluation, the student will be admitted into the semester in which he/she was unsuccessful. If the student is unsuccessful in any portion of the readmission process, he/she will be given the option to reapply to Nursing 101 during the next application cycle.

Transfer Students

The system guidelines will be followed except:

1. Applicants will not be considered that have previously been unsuccessful in another nursing program except for admission to fundamentals, Nursing 101.
2. The student will meet with the nursing program coordinator prior to consideration for admission to the nursing program.
3. The student must provide the nursing coordinator copies of the following: completed nursing classes course syllabi and student learner outcomes, completed skills performance evaluation records, grades for completed classes, and clinical evaluations. Acceptance of transfer credit will be dependent upon comparability of previous nursing courses.
4. The student must demonstrate competency in the fundamentals of nursing to be considered as a transfer student. This will be evidenced by the student achieving a minimum score, designated by the program, on a standardized, nationally normed fundamentals of nursing examination. Testing will be scheduled by the program coordinator or designee based upon student preparation and test availability. Students may take the exam one time. If the student does not pass with the designated minimal score or greater, the student will be given the option to apply for admission to Nursing 101 during the next application cycle. All testing will be at the student’s expense. Once posted to the student’s account, fees are non-refundable.

Advanced standing LPN to AND Transitions program

1. Students applying for advanced standing into the Associate Degree Nursing Program (ADN) must hold an active unrestricted license as a practical/vocational nurse.
2. The student must pass a fundamentals of nursing standardized examination with a designated minimal score. Students may take the exam one time. If the student does not pass the examination with the minimal designated score or better, the student will be given the option to apply for admission to Nursing 101 during the next application cycle. All testing will be at the student’s expense. Once posted to the student’s account, fees are non-refundable.
3. A student admitted into the advanced standing program will receive credit for the first semester ADN course.
4. On completion of Nursing 197, Transition to ADN, the student will be admitted to NSG 220 and will have earned by advanced standing, 15 credit hours in nursing.