Nursing (LPN - B.S.)

Program: LPN - B.S.
Department of Nursing
College of Health and Human Services
Neff Hall B50 ~ 260-481-6816 ~ www.ipfw.edu/nursing

The student learning outcomes for the degree are as follows:

• Validate professionalism through awareness, assertiveness, accountability, and advocacy.
• Critique leadership skills in directing healthcare activities: influencing and adapting to change.
• Evaluate complex issues/problems in the healthcare arena using critical thinking skills
• Integrate the delivery of culturally competent nursing care in a variety of settings through the utilization of the NSM, other theories, and research.
• Justify effective, therapeutic, culturally sensitive communication techniques that are appropriate for the situation and audience.
• Evaluate the impact of generated information on healthcare outcomes.

LPN Mobility

Criteria for LPN Applicants

LPN to RN Mobility Track Seminar will be offered spring semester only. LPN applicants must meet the following requirements:

• Hold a current LPN license prior to beginning NUR 336 Nursing IIIB: Med-Surg Nursing of Adults.
• Be admitted to IPFW as a degree seeking student.
• Be a graduate of an NLNAC or equivalent accredited practical nursing program.
• Have a minimum GPA of 3.0 or higher upon graduation from the LPN program.
• A minimum GPA does not guarantee admission. The actual GPA necessary for admission varies with the GPA distribution of the applicant pool and the number of available slots for admission.
• Have completed at least 8 credit hours of anatomy and physiology within five years of application.
• Have completed CHM 104 or equivalent chemistry within 10 years of application.
• Have completed BIOL 220 or equivalent biology within 5 years of application.
• Have credit or accepted transfer credit in the 24 credit hours of identified pre-nursing curriculum with a grade of C or better in each course. Courses may be repeated only one time. Pre-nursing curriculum:
  • PSY 120
  • BIOL 220
  • ENG W131
  • CHM 104 (equivalent CHM 111 and 112)
  • BIOL 203 and BIOL 204
  • COM 114
• Applicants are required to take an Pre-Admission Examination. The examination is administered on specific dates and at specific times. Applicants pay a testing fee.
• Students who earn a grade of “C” or better in NUR 117 and NUR 336 will be awarded an additional 13 credit hours for the first year nursing courses. Student may take NUR 241 prior to NUR 336, but the awarding of the 13 credit hours does not occur until successful completion of NUR 117 and NUR 336.
• Students not successful in NUR 117 and NUR 336, will not be granted the 13 credit hours for the first year nursing courses and will need to successfully complete NUR 202 to continue in the nursing program.

Criteria for Dismissal from Pre-Nursing / Ineligibility for Admission to Nursing

• A student who earns two grades below C in the same or any combination of 2 courses required in the pre-nursing curriculum will be ineligible for program admission for a period of five years after earning the last grade below C.

NOTE:  Students who have previously been dismissed from the IPFW Nursing program, or any nursing degree program, and return under the above LPN admission will be dismissed from the program with a failure of any course required in the nursing curriculum.