DCB catalog 2024-25

92 Checklist for the Advance Standing ADN (LPN to RN) Applicants 1. Complete an application for admission to your local college (Dakota College) 2. Complete the electronic application for the Dakota Nursing Program with a current, valid, unencumbered United States LPN license number for verification. 3. Provide copy of current CPR certification for BLS Provider 4. Pass a preadmission examination (ATI Comprehensive PN Predictor). 5. If required by English as a second language (ESL) applicant, TOEFL exam results. 6. Provide 2 professional references. * All applicants will be invited to an interview if they meet all requirements and will be notified by July 30th. * Advanced Standing applicants who are qualified for admission will be on a waiting list until all internal applicants have completed the ATI PN Comprehensive Predictor during the first week of July. Incomplete applications are not able to be processed and will be refused. Associate Degree Nurse Curriculum Fall Semester Credits Spring Semester Credits NURS 224 Professional Role Development 2 NURS 228 Alterations in Health II 4 NURS 225 Alterations in Health I 3 NURS 229 Health Promotion and Psychosocial Nursing 2 NURS 226 Maternal Child Nursing 3 NURS 237 Clinical Application II 5 NURS 227 Clinical Application I 4 NURS 259 Role Transitions 1 BIOL 202 Microbiology 4 NURS 259 Role Transitions 1 Communication Elective 3 Natural Resources Natural Resource Management AAS This program prepares students to perform tasks associated with managing, improving, and protecting natural resources for economic and/or recreational purposes. Program graduates may assist in data collection and inventories of natural resources, providing conservation recommendations to managers, and developing and implementing natural resource management plans. Freshman Year Fall Spring Sophomore Year Fall Spring ENGL 110 College Composition I 3 CHEM 121 General Chemistry I 4 BIOL 150 General Biology I 4 BIOL 121 Intro to Fish & Wildlife Man 4 CSCI 101 Intro to Computers 3 BOT 211 Botany I 4 COMM 110 Fund of Public Speaking 3 Elective** 3-4 Elective** 3-4 Soc Science Elective 3 Wellness Elective 1 GEOL 105 Physical Geology 4 ENGL 120 College Composition II 3 Elective** 3-4 BIOL 151 General Biology II 4 Fine Art/Hum Elective 3 MATH 103 College Algebra or Higher 4 Soc Science Elective 3 Fine Art/Hum Elective 3 Wellness Elective 1 Elective** 3-4 **Electives must include 8 credits from the following: BIOL, CHEM, BOT, FORS, FWLD, RLS, RNG or SOIL