LVN-RN Transition Program (LVN-RN)
APPLICATION & ENROLLMENT PROCESS 

The process for Licensed Vocational Nurses to upgrade to Registered Nurses at Shasta College has been changed effective October 1, 2012.  For information go to the ADN Application & Enrollment Process.  
 
Those LVNs who have completed all of their program pre-requisites and have taken the REGN 79 course will be allowed to apply to the LVN-RN Transition program for one last application filing period - as listed below.  After that time, all LVNs desiring to upgrade to RN through Shasta College's ADN program will apply to the ADN program during one of the established application periods.  Applicants found eligible will be added to the ADN Wait List.  As class positions become available, applicants are invited to enroll in a class.

Applicants seeking advanced placement in the ADN program are ineligible for enrollment if they have withdrawn, failed, or have been dismissed from any nursing or healthcare related program for any of the following circumstances:

• Positive drug screen for cause
• Criminal background issue during program
• Unsafe clinical practice
• Violation of Shasta College Student Code of Conduct
• Gross negligence resulting in actual or potential harm to client or family
• Verbal threat of physical harm (assault)
• Physical violence (battery)
• HIPAA Violation (breach of confidentiality)
• Falsifying the medical record
• Carrying a weapon or illicit drugs/drug paraphernalia
• Stealing from clinical site, college, or faculty
• Rejection for clinical placement by a clinical affiliate

As an applicant's position moves up on the Wait List and they are invited to enroll in the ADN program, the student will register and can then request to Challenge the courses for Advanced Placement. 

Application Filing Periods

There is one application-filing period each year. Application packets will be available at the Admissions and Records Office throughout the application-filing period during normal hours of operation. 

Next scheduled Application Information Sessions & Application Periods are:

Completion of Application Packets
Completed packets must be hand-delivered or sent by Certified Mail and received in the Admissions and Records Office no later than the final date of the application-filing period.  As application-filing packets are submitted, each applicant will receive a receipt.  A daily-randomized login number will be assigned to each packet submitted.  Once eligibility is verified, notification will be given to the Health Sciences Administrative Offices for placement on the master LVN-RN Transition Wait List.  Eligible applicants will be notified of their waiting list number by the Health Sciences & University Programs office.

Current Information
Once an assigned number for the Wait List is determined, it is the applicant’s responsibility to maintain current information (name, address, telephone number, email address) with the Health Sciences & University Programs office.  There are times when an individual on the waiting list changes his/her mind or moves, etc., and, therefore, other applicant’s may move their placement to an earlier date.  The Health Sciences & University Programs office needs the most current information in order to offer the earlier placement opportunity.

Notification of Acceptance
As enrollment spaces are determined, applicants scheduled for enrollment in the next class will receive written notification of their status.  If when offered enrollment, the applicant is unable to attend due to extenuating circumstances they have the option to request deferment and, if granted, their name will be moved to the bottom of the Wait List. The option to defer is available one time only.  ADN Enrollment Policy

All enrollment placements are based on space availability.

A Completed Application Packet includes ALL of the following: 

• Shasta College Application
• LVN-RN Transition Program Application Filing form
• Official transcripts of ALL colleges attended.  These will be used to document the successful completion of all prerequisite courses.
• *Official high school transcripts showing date of graduation, completion of California High School Proficiency Examination, or verified copy of G.E.D. test results.
• Copy of current LVN Licensure - Verification will be obtained online from the Board of Vocational Nursing
• If applicant has attended another nursing program, a letter from the nursing program director of the previous school, regarding applicant's standing in the program.

Additional Information related to the completion of the application packet:

• Shasta College work will be obtained from the Admissions and Records office and made an official part of the application filing packet. 
• Failure to include ALL other college and/or high school records will result in the automatic disqualification of the application filing packet.
• Other college and/or high school records that may already be on file with the Shasta College Admissions and Records office CANNOT be used for this packet.  
• Once an applicant has been placed on the waiting list, it will not be necessary to re-submit an application-filing packet. 
• If an applicant is determined to be ineligible, the applicant must re-submit all other college and/or high school records with each new application filing packet.
• Applicants must submit the Pre-Enrollment Policy Acknowledgment Form electronically before their application will be reviewed by the Health Sciences Division.

*Official transcripts are those that have been received from another educational institution in a sealed envelope and remain unopened.  Once an envelope containing a transcript has been opened (seal broken) it cannot be accepted by Shasta College for purposes of enrollment filing to the ADN program.

    LVN-RN Transition Program Enrollment Criteria    

Health & Safety Clinical Requirements

  Core Courses 

Pre-Enrollment Policy Acknowledgment Form 

If you are currently on the Wait List and wish to have your name withdrawn, please notifiy us by submitting the Nursing Programs Wait List Withdrawal form

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