LPN to ADN Transition Requirements

Total Credit Hours: 26

Program Information:

For Program Information Contact:

Health Professions advisor at 217.786.2224 or the Nursing Department at 217.786.2445 or 217.786.4913.

Admission to the Program

  1. Submit the LLCC admission worksheet.
  2. Be a high school graduate or have a GED certificate.
  3. Have a composite score ACT of 21 or higher, or ACT of 19 to 20 with 24 college hours that includes one science course, one communication course and one social science course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C in the courses.
  4. Complete CHE 100 or CHE 101 with a minimum grade of C within the last five years or one year of high school chemistry with a minimum grade of C and not longer than five years ago.
  5. Take the LLCC Placement Test and obtain scores that demonstrate placement out of EGL 099. If this ability is not demonstrated, the courses of EGL 098 and/or EGL 099 must be satisfactorily completed.
  6. Take the LLCC Placement Test and obtain scores that demonstrate placement out of RDG 099. If this ability is not demonstrated, the courses of RDG 098 and/or RDG 099 must be satisfactorily completed.
  7. Take the LLCC Placement Test and obtain scores that demonstrate placement out of MAT 096. If this ability is not demonstrated, the courses of MAT 094 and MAT 096 must be satisfactorily completed.
  8. Have a GPA of 2.5 or higher for all previous college courses.
  9. Have a GPA of 2.0 or higher for all previous LLCC college-level courses.
  10. Send all high school and college transcripts AND A COPY OF LPN LICENSE to: Admissions and Records Office, Lincoln Land Community College, 5250 Shepherd Road, P. O. Box 19256, Springfield, IL 62794-9256.
  11. Successfully complete with a minimum grade of C PSY 101, PSY 220, BIO 220, BIO 175, BIO 176 and MAT 105. This is necessary because all nursing students beginning the second year of the Nursing Program must have completed these courses. MAT 105, BIO 220, BIO 175 and BIO 176 must have been taken within the last five years.
  12. Give evidence of satisfactory physical and emotional health required of practitioners to carry out the tasks of this occupation.
  13. Anatomy and physiology courses and microbiology courses must have been taken within the last five years.
  14. Submit the nursing application.

Required ADN Program Courses (26 credits)

NUR 283

ADN Transition for the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

5 credits

EGL 101

Composition I

3 credits

EGL 102

Composition II

3 credits

MAT 105

Quantitative Literacy *

3 credits

POS 101

Introduction to American Politics

 

 

POS 201

State and Local Government

3 credits

PSY 220

Human Development

3 credits

SOC 101

Introduction to Sociology

3 credits

Humanities Elective

3 credits