Advanced Placement process for LPN's desiring to enter NURR 201, ADN Program.

By December 1 or June 1

Notify CSI Associate Degree Nursing Program Chair, in writing, of your desire to begin the Advanced Placement process.

1. Apply to CSI.
2. Complete and submit nursing application form to the Health Science and Human Services Department.
3. Have official transcripts sent to CSI Records Department for credit audit.
4. Provide proof of LPN status (copy of current Idaho license or current license from a compact state) to CSI Nursing Program Chair.
5. E-mail Chair of Nursing (Valerie Warner; vwarner@csi.edu) noting to her what your career goals are, plan to make that happen, what semester you want to transition into, and what semester you want to take the transition course.
6. Once approved, register for and successfully complete LPN Transition course (NURR 100). NURR 100 can only be completed in the Fall or Spring semester before you enter NURR 201.
7. Be IV certified in the state of Idaho.
8. Please remember, you must have ALL sciences complete, with a C or better, before entering into the 3rd semester of the RN program. You must have at least one year of high school chemistry with a C or better or completion of college chemistry 101 with a lab. You can take missing courses with the transition course.
9. Have all but three credits of ADN general education classes completed before entering NURR 201.

Credits for NURR 101 and NURR 103 (16 credits total) will be held in escrow until the Advanced Placement student successfully completes NURR 201. At that point, he/she must apply for vertical credit of NURR 101 and 103 at the records office. (There is a fee per credit.)

Even after an LPN completes the process,. there must be an available place in NURR 201. In the event that a place is not available, the LPN will be placed on a list for admission in NURR 201/202 the following semester.

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