LVN Program Overview
LVN to RN Career Mobility Program General Support Classes
Our NURS 12C- LVN-RN Bridge Course (Units: 4 theory/1 lab)- upon completion student earns credit for N11A Fundamentals of Nursing Concepts, N11B Fundamentals of Pharmacology, N12A Adult Health I, N12B Nursing Care of Childbearing Families. This is designed to prepare the student to enter the 3rd semester of the Associate in Science Nursing Program and to facilitate transition from the LVN to RN role. The Yuba College Nursing Program does not take a bridge course from another school the course must be completed at Yuba College.
* NURS 12C must be completed and on the student’s transcript to apply to the LVN to RN Career Mobility program
An LVN to is offered conditional enrollment will provide their syllabi of each of their previously completed LVN courses. The syllabi will be reviewed for course content, hours of clinical (direct patient care), the depth/breath of the course. These LVN’s previously completed LVN nursing courses will be reviewed for potential placement in our program.
LVN to RN Career Mobility Program Prerequisites
Biology (minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required)
- Biol 4, Human Anatomy 4 units
- Biol 5, Human Physiology 4 units
- Biol 6, Intro. Microbiology 4 units
Minimum combined 2.00 GPA for the courses below
- ENGL C1000, Academic Reading and Writing 4 units (If you have a better grade in English 1B or 1C, you may use that GPA for your merit-based admission score)
- STAT C1000 Introduction to Statistics 4 units OR PSYCH 6 Introduction to Statistics in Social and Behavioral Science
- Chem 2A Introduction Chemistry 5 units (If you have a better grade in Chem 2B or Chem 1A or Chem 1B you may use that GPA for your merit-based admission score)
- HLTH 10 Principles of Nutrition 3 units
- PSYC C1000 Introduction to Psychology 3 units
- Arts and Humanities GE 3 units (course taken to meet the general education Humanities area requirement must, in the academic term in which it was completed, be listed as an approved course for the Humanities area in the academic catalog of the regionally accredited college at which the course was taken)
- Ethnic Studies GE 3 units (course taken to meet the general education Ethnic Studies area requirement must, in the academic term in which it was completed, be listed as an approved course for the Ethnic Studies area in the academic catalog of the regionally accredited college at which the course was taken)
- SOCIL 1 Introduction to Sociology OR ANTHR 2 Cultural Anthropology 3 units
- COMM C1000 Introduction to Public Speaking OR SPECH 6 Group Communications 3 units
- NURS 12C- LVN-RN Bridge Course (Units: 4 theory/1 lab)- upon completion student earns credit for N11A Fundamentals of Nursing Concepts, N11B Fundamentals of Pharmacology, N12A Adult Health I, N12B Nursing Care of Childbearing Families
LVN to RN Career Mobility Program Admission Criteria
- Completion of all program prerequisites:
- Pre-testing qualification- TEAS exam must be 70 or higher to apply
- Social Security Number or Active ITIN
- Valid LVN license with Current Intravenous Therapy certification
- Pass the Yuba College NURS 12C LVN to RN Bridge Course prior to applying to the program. Only the Yuba College NURS 12C course is accepted no other bridge course is equivalent *this is a California State Board of Nursing (BRN) requirement
LVN to RN Career Mobility Program Curriculum
Program Sequence of Courses grid and list out pre semester
- NURS 13A- Adult Health II (4 theory/4 lab units)
- NURS 13B- Pediatrics (2 theory/2 lab units)
- NURS 14A- Adult Health III with Leadership (theory 3/lab 3.5 units)
- NURS 14B- Integrated Nursing Concepts and NCLEX-RN Readiness (1.5 theory)
- NURS 14C- Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (2 theory/2 lab units)