Practical Nursing (1 year)

General Education Prerequisites

• BIO 2101 Human Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab: GT-SC1  Credits: 4
  Coursework must be completed within the past seven years.​  
• BIO 2102 Human Anatomy and Physiology II with Lab: GT-SC1  Credits: 4
  Coursework must be completed within the past seven years.​  
• ENG 1021 English Composition I: GT-CO1  Credits: 3
  Or equivalent. Coursework older than 10 years may not transfer unless the student has earned an AA, AS, AAS, BA, or BS degree, or has achieved a score of 110 or higher on the Accuplacer Sentence Skills test.
• HWE 1050 Human Nutrition  Credits: 3
  Must be completed within seven years of admission, unless the course is part of a completed AA, AS, AAS, BA, or BS degree with HWE 1050, or an equivalent course. 
• MAT 1260 Introduction to Statistics: GT-MA1  Credits: 3
  Coursework must be completed within the past seven years.​ 

Total Prerequisite Credits: 17

Certificate Requirements

Semester 1 (Fall)

• BIO 2104 Microbiology with Lab: GT-SC1  Credits: 4
  Must be completed within seven years of admission and with a grade of C or higher in order to progress to the second semester of the Nursing Program.
• NUR 1009 Fundamentals of Nursing  Credits: 6-8 
• NUR 1012 Basic Concepts of Pharmacology  Credits: 2 
• PSY 2440 Human Growth and Development: GT-SS3  Credits: 3
  Must be completed within seven years of admission unless included in a completed AA, AS, AAS, BA, or BS degree along with HPR 1010 or an equivalent course.

​Semester 2 (Spring)

• ​NUR 1006 Medical Surgical Nursing Concepts  Credits: 7-9
• NUR 1050 Maternal-Child Nursing  Credits: 6-7

Summer Semester

• NUR 1069 Transition into Practical Nursing  Credits: 4-5

Total Required Credits: 32

Total Credits for Certificate: 49