Nursing Advanced Placement Program

To qualify as a candidate for Advanced Placement (LPN to RN) you must have the following:

Current resident status for the COCC college district. See the COCC website for residency requirements.
Current State of Oregon LPN license that must be active and unencumbered.
400 hours of direct patient care experience in an acute or long-term (skilled) setting, or 600 hours of direct patient care in other nursing settings such as clinics, home health, or assisted living as an LPN within the last two years.
Official copy of transcripts showing completion of the required prerequisite and support courses (or their equivalent).

Prerequisites:

You must complete all of the Nursing prerequisites before entering the program.

Course	Course Title	Credits
BI 231	Anatomy and Physiology I*	4
BI 232	Anatomy and Physiology II*	4
BI 233	Anatomy and Physiology III*	4
BI 234	Microbiology*	4
MTH 105Z or higher	Math in Society	4
WR 121Z	Academic Composition	4
PSY 215	Developmental Psychology	4
FN 225	Human Nutrition	4
WR 122Z or WR 227Z	Argument, Research, and Multimodal Composition Technical Writing	4 4
CH 104 or CH 221Z and 227Z	Introduction to Chemistry I* General Chemistry I* and General Chemistry I Lab	5 5
Choose one of the following: PSY 202Z PSY 228 SOC 204Z SOC 212	Introduction to Psychology II Positive Psychology Introduction to Sociology Race, Class, and Gender	3-4

*The science courses must have been completed within 5 years prior to admission. Older course work may be accepted by petition process on a case-by-case basis.

In addition to completing all prerequisites with a "C" grade or better, applicants must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher between WR 121Z, MTH105Z (or higher), BI 231, BI 232, BI 233 and BI 234.

Application Resources

Application to Advanced Placement Nursing Program opens February 1 - March 15.

AP Students Application