Advanced Placement and Transfer of Credit Policy Into EASTERN

 

Post Graduation LPN TO RN Options:

 

Montgomery County Community College Articulation Agreement

Rationale

Both Montgomery County Community College (College) and EASTERN Center for Arts and Technology (ECAT) value the opportunity to support students in their educational endeavors. Since there are commonalities in the content taught in the nursing courses of the Practical Nursing Program at ECAT and content taught in the beginning nursing courses of the A.A.A. degree Nursing Program of the College, one means of accomplishing this goal is through an articulation agreement that recognizes previously learned nursing content. It is, therefore, the intent of the College and ECAT to establish a mutual Articulation Agreement between its two nursing program that permits students opportunities for advanced placement.

Terms of Articulation

A. ECAT Practical Nursing Program Graduates Seeking Admission into the College's Nursing Program.

An ECAT Practical Nursing Program graduate is eligible for Advanced Placement into the College's Nursing Program upon submission of all required documents, attainment of the Nursing Program Admission criteria, and completion of prerequisite courses. Admission is on a space available basis with preferential admission given to ECAT graduates.
Upon submission of documentation of satisfactory completion and graduation from the ECAT Practical Nursing Program a student accepted into the College's Nursing Program will receive 8 credits for the College's NUR 110's Introduction to Nursing course.
Upon satisfactory completion of the College's Placement Examination for LPNs an ECAT Practical Nursing graduate will receive 8 credits for the College's NUR 112's Nursing Care of Clients with Uncomplicated Health Care Needs course and enter the College's Nursing Program at the sophomore level.

B. The College Nursing Program Student Seeking Admission into EASTERN's Practical Nursing Program.

A College nursing student is eligible for Advanced Placement into ECAT's Practical Nursing Program upon submission of all required documents and attainment of the Practical Nursing Program Admission Criteria.
A College nursing student will receive credit for ECAT's Nursing 1/Nursing Skills and Pharmacology upon submission of satisfactory completion of the College's NUR 109/106's Concepts of Nursing and NUR 111/110- Introduction to Nursing courses.

Associate Degree Nursing Program of Montgomery County Community College

Advanced placement for qualified graduates is available through the Abington Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.