Nursing - LPN to RN Advanced Placement Option AAS-T

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Summary

Further your education and career path by bridging from a LPN to a registered nurse (RN). Lectures, skills labs, and clinical experience prepare students for work in the public and private healthcare sectors. Graduates interested in pursuing a four-year baccalaureate degree in Nursing may apply for a RN to BSN program after completion of the AAS-T degree.

Completion Award
Associate of Applied Sciences - Transfer
Length of Study
110 Credits
Starting Quarter
Fall, Winter, Spring
Location
On Campus

  • Develop a patient-centered plan of care incorporating unique multifaceted preferences (cultural, spiritual, ethnic, developmental, psychosocial) while recognizing the patient as the source of control and full partner.
  • Demonstrate ability to coordinate and integrate care, creating continuity across multiple care environments using effective communication and shared decision-making.
  • Demonstrate effective use of strategies to reduce the risk of harm to patients and providers.
  • Evaluate system effectiveness and individual performance
  • Practice effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, using therapeutic communication, mutual respect and shared decision making to achieve quality patient outcomes.
  • Use quality measures to identify variations and formulate approaches for improving system functioning.
  • Integrate best current evidence with clinical reasoning, patient/family preferences and values using the nursing process to deliver optimal nursing care.
  • Evaluate and use information and technology to communicate, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
  • Apply technology to find, analyze, and apply evidence-based information and current resources.
  • Use APA style in academic paper writing and avoid plagiarism.
  • Demonstrate honesty, self-awareness, self-regulation, and a sense of ethical responsibility for self and others while engaging in respectful communication and collaboration to enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes, and to preserve practice integrity and safety.
  • Demonstrate professional behaviors and accountability for standard-based nursing care that is consistent with moral, legal, ethical, regulatory, and humanistic principles.

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The employment outlook is good. Registered Nurses will continue to be in demand. Employment opportunities include hospital or nursing home staff nurse, charge and home health nurse. With additional training/education, potential positions include critical care nurse, emergency department nurse or operating room nurse.

Potential employers include: The most rapid growth in the health care industry over the next decade will likely be in critical care, specialty care, home health, and long-term geriatric care facilities. Obtaining advanced academic degrees can lead to positions in administration, education and advanced practice positions, such as nurse practitioner. 

Estimated Tuition & Fees

(does not include additional program or course fees, books, or supply costs)

Per Quarter
2021-2022 		WA-Resident Non-WA resident,
US citizen, &
Eligible non-citizen
On Campus 		Non-WA resident
Non-US citizen¹ 		Non-WA resident, US citizen
Online Only
1 credit $147.42 $241.53 $330.49 $170.14
5 credits $645.10 $1,115.65 $1,560.45 $758.70
12 credits (full-time) $1,388.76 $2,337.72 $3,234.38 $1,632.56
15 credits $1,557.90 $2,518.65 $3,425.90 $1,826.60

¹ Includes all International Students, both on campus and overseas online

Additional Program Fees
Approximately $150 - $275 per quarter

Ways to pay for school

Federal aid, scholarships, grants, and more are available to help you pay for school.

Next Steps

Admission to this program is through an application process. Applicants need to meet the eligibility requirements and apply to the program as well as the College. Faculty and staff are available to assist with the process.

Next application periods for 6qtr & LPN to RN: Jan 15 - Apr 3, Aug 15 - Oct 3, Nov 15 - Jan 10 (every year)
Next application period for 10qtr: January 15, 2023 – April 3, 2023 (every other year)

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