Tampa LPN to RN Bridge Program - About Professional Nursing Program

The Professional Nursing program integrates general education and nursing courses to ensure a balanced and well-rounded education that prepares students to face the challenges ahead. The curriculum is based on holistic nursing and incorporates Sr. Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model (RAM) and the Evidence-Based Practice Impact Model described by Brown (2009) for the provision of nursing care. Our students learn to understand the importance of addressing the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the patient in an ever-changing, complex society.

The Professional Nursing program consists of 113 quarter credit hours of education. The program is broken into five quarters, 12 weeks in length each.

 

Course No.		Course Title		Quarter Credits
PRE-NURSING PREREQUISITES
Quarter 1
GE201		College Writing for Nurses		4.5
GE202		Math for Problem Solving & Research		4.5
GE203		Nutrition		4.5
GE204		Pathophysiology		4.5
NUS201		LPN to RN Transition		3.0
				21.0
Quarter 2
GE205		Human Development		4.5
GE206		Microbiology		4.5
GE207		Sociology		4.5
NUS102		Advanced Nursing Skills		4.5
				18.0
PROFESSIONAL NURSING COURSES
Quarter 3
NU204		Essentials of Medical-Surgical Nursing		9.0
NU205		Advanced Concepts of Geriatric Nursing		6.0
				18.0
Quarter 4
NU201		Advanced Concepts of Maternal and Newborn Nursing		6.0
NU202		Advanced Concepts of Pediatric Nursing		6.0
NU203		Advanced Concepts of Psychiatric Nursing		6.0
				18.0
Quarter 5
NU206		Advanced Concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing		13.5
NU207		Senior Seminar		4.5
				18.0
Total Credits				93.0
Credit for Prior Learning as an LVN/LPN				20.0
Total Credits Required				113.0
Legend:
Courses that begin with a “GE” are general education courses.
Courses that begin with a “NUS” are nursing support courses.
Courses that begin with a “NU” are core nursing courses.
Quarter Credit Ratio: 1 Credit = 10 Clock Hours of Theory Instruction and 1 Credit = 30 Clock Hours of Skill Lab/Clinical Instruction.
* The general education and nursing support may be taken in any order and courses in quarter 3 and 4 are interchangeable

Students may transfer up to a maximum of nine quarter credits from another institution. The courses eligible for transfer credit are: (i) Nutrition, (ii) Pathophysiology, (iii) Microbiology, (iv) Sociology and (v) Human Development. In order for any courses to be eligible for transfer these courses must have been completed within the last five years, be comparable to courses as offered at the Center and students must have earned a "B" or above.  Evaluation will be based upon a number of criteria including; date course completed, grade received in course, and institution transferring the credit. The Center will only accept credits from nationally or regionally accredited institutions. Students will be responsible for providing The Center with all relevant materials required for the evaluation (including course syllabi, books utilized, transcript, etc.). If the Dean accepts the coursework completed, the student will then be required to complete a challenge exam in the subject in which the transfer credit is requested with a score of 75% or better.