ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSE (RN)

Applications are available December 1 – March 5 and can be found on the DNP website: www.dakotanursing.org.

Advanced Standing Students are graduates from a state board-approved PN program from an accredited college and current LPN with an active, unencumbered license to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse in the United States of America.

Internal Students are current DNP PN Students or current Paramedic to Nurse Bridge Students.

Acceptance is determined by the capacity set by each institution within the Dakota Nursing Program Consortium. Please note that total acceptance may fluctuate based on the availability of faculty at each campus. Institutions marked with an * offer the ADN program every other year.

Pharmacology 215 must be taken within the last 7 years; all other required nursing courses must be completed from an approved LPN program with a satisfactory grade of a “C” or better.

Yes, to graduate with an associate degree in nursing, students will need the required number of credits and hours to graduate.

Your local institution can help to review your transcripts and develop a plan for you to become qualified for the ADN program.

The ATI PN Comprehensive Predictor. The program requires an individual composite score which equals a predicted probability of passing the NCLEX-PN of 92%.

No, scores are valid for up to one (1) year.

Schedules are based on each institution within the Dakota Nursing Program Consortium and may vary.  Generally you can expect exams to be held on Mondays, theory and lab courses to be held on Wednesdays with and clinicals held Thursdays and Fridays.

LRSC is currently the only institution with a mobility program. Through this, students complete theory courses online, while coming to campus every few weeks for lab and clinicals.

Yes, once the semester has been completed, we will check your grades and GPA to make sure you meet the requirements of the nursing program.

Yes, any applicant born outside of the United States or Canada for whom English is not their native language or have not attended 4 years of U.S. High school and achieved a HS GPA of 3.0 or higher must meet additional language proficiency requirements for admission to the program.  English as a second language (ESL) applicants must achieve minimum scores on the TOEFL internet-based test (86 Combined; minimum individual scores of 26 Speaking, 20 Writing, 20 Reading, and 20 Listening) OR the Duolingo English Test scores (115 minimum overall score; with a content score of 90 in each of the following: Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing)

The Dakota Nursing Program selects instructors who have a background in the course content.

For example, for the maternal newborn course, there is an instructor at Lake Region State College and one at Williston State College who have worked in Obstetrics. Those faculty will teach you about the care of mothers and babies over the Teams Meeting Room technology. They can see you and you can see them on the monitors in the classroom. There are speakers and microphones so you can hear them, and they can hear you ask questions or make comments as well. This is the same model we use for foundations of nursing, health assessment, medical surgical nursing, and mental health nursing. Sometimes the faculty will be at your location if you are on the main campus and sometimes, they will be on the monitor in your classroom.

Each of our courses are built this way. It is an advantage to be able to have the expertise the faculty have in different topics to students across the state.