If you have a letter from the BRN indicating you need to take courses requiring obstetric and/or pediatric content, please contact the Health Sciences/Nursing Office at 714-564-6825 to make an appointment to discuss procedures.

Psychiatric nursing is in the 3rd semester. Applicants for those requiring psychiatric nursing for the BRN will not be accepted at this time due to the 3rd semester re-entry waitlist being impacted.

If you have a letter from the BRN indicating you need to take courses requiring medical/surgical content (regardless if other content is needed or not), you will need to complete the entire Nursing Program; therefore, you would need to apply through the multi-criteria admission process and be selected to enter the program as any other applicant. Please see the multi-criteria admission process information in the First Semester Entry Information​ link.

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Advance Placement/LVN-RN Students:​

Letters of "Continued Interest" will be e​mailed in​ May to every prospective student on the entry lists. If a student does not respond to the letter by the stated deadline, the student's name will be removed from the entry list.

PLEASE NOTE: All advance-placed students/LVN-RN students are required to pass a diagnostic assessment test. Santa Ana College utilizes the Test of Essentials Academic Skills (TEAS). Please view TEAS document​, for more details (specifically for Advanced Placed/LVN-RN students).

In order to be eligible to enter the program when space is available, you will be required to pass ATI TEAS Version ​7  with a 62% or higher, if you have not already done so. All Santa Ana College requirements regarding the timing of the TEAS test must be met.

Process for placement on the Nursing Entry List as an Advanced-Placement Student:

1. If you wish to be advanced-placed you are required to meet with the program director. Please email the Health Sciences/Nursing Office at nursing2@sac.edu to make an appointment.

• A student's name is placed on only one semester's entry list, to be determined by the Program Director.

2. Attending a Nursing Information Orientation given by the SAC Counseling Department (which can be reached here) is suggested.

3. Eligibility for placement on the Nursing Entry List is ba​sed upon completion of prerequisite classes. The prerequisites are:

• Anatomy (Biology 239)

• Human Physiology (Biology 249)

• Health Microbiology (Biology 139) {General Microbiology (Biology 229) is accepted}

• Freshman Composition (English 101/101H)

• The completed prerequisites must be passed with at least a "C" and require an overall Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.5 or higher.

• Science courses must have been completed within seven (7) years prior to the student being added to the entry list.

• All students must submit their official high school transcripts to Admissions and Records.

• ​If you have completed any courses at another college, including an LVN program, you must submit official transcripts to Admissions and Records.

4. You must become a student at SAC or SCC by completing a college application and obtaining a Student ID Number (please call Admissions & Records at 714-564-6017 for college application questions).

5. Once the prerequisites have been completed, a Nursing Prerequisite Verification form (Nursing Application) can be obtained online HERE.
• THERE IS NO SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ADVANCED-PLACED NURSING APPLICATIONS.
• All students who have had their prerequisites verified are placed on the appropriate list in the order in which the completed prerequisite verification form was received.
• Due to many students completing their prerequisites at other colleges, the verification process can be prolonged. You will be notified by letter after you have been placed on the Entry List.
• Once a student is placed on the list, if there are any changes in address, name and/or phone number, the student must notify the Health Sciences/Nursing Office in writing. If we are unable to contact you by phone and/or mail, your name will be removed from the Entry List. Additionally, it is the student's responsibility to notify the college of those same changes.
6. Advance Placement/LVN-RN students are required to complete the Role Transition course, NRN 200*. You will be notified when space is available for you to take NRN 200.

   • For the LVN-RN option, there is a total of​​ 69 units (this would include NRN 200 Role Transition- 2 units).​​​​​

The Transition Cour​​se Role: 

Once the Role Transition course (NRN 200) and ATI TEAS Version 7 exam are successfully completed, you will be notified when space is available in the appropriate semester for entry into the Nursing Program.

The Role Transition course (NRN 200) is required prior to entering the appropriate semester. The Role Transition course has content about the conceptual framework, concept mapping, roles of the nurse, communication, and fluid and electrolytes with testing of skills and nursing knowledge. Students will be contacted as to when to take the Role Transition course.​

How students are chosen from the list:​

1. Students who have completed Role Transition and ATI TEAS Version 7 exam are eligible to enter the program and will be notified when space is available in the program.

2. Space is created because a student from the previous class has not progressed for some reason, there was an unfulfilled space, or additional funding is available.

3. Re-Entry students are given priority for the first available space and then alternate with advanced-placed students for available spaces. Students are notified in the order placed on the entry list AND once Role Transition and TEAS testing are completed (for advanced-placed students).

4. Space may be available in the Traditional and/or ECP Programs.

Important things to consider for entry into the program:

• Students have only ONE chance to deny entrance into the program and remain where they currently are on the list. A second de​nial will result in the student being removed from the list.
• Students who obtain an LVN license while on the 2nd semester waitlist will be automatically moved to the bottom of our 3rd semester waitlist as 3rd semester is the entry point for LVN's. A new prerequisite verification form will need to be submitted along with a copy of the LVN License. The Role Transition course, NRN 200, is required prior to entering the program.
• Students are required to have transportation to and from off-campus clinical sites.

 

 **Please note** This is considered a full-time program. Students are advised to limit outside employment. Excessive work schedules combined with family and school commitments may contribute to being unsuccessful in the program.

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Current Advanced Placement/LVN Entry Lists:​

 2nd semester - 5 people on the list as of 08/08/2023.

 3rd semester​​ - 36 people on the list as of 08/08/2023.

 4th ​​semester​​​​ - 9 people on the list ​as of 08/08/2023.​

Webpage Updated 05/23/2023​