Obtain Your Associate’s Degree in Nursing at Our School

Vaccinations may be necessary if immunity cannot be confirmed with the blood titer. The vaccine for hepatitis “B” is highly recommended. If you choose not to have the vaccine, you will be required to sign a waiver form.

• Must have a negative drug screen urine test prior to admission.
• Provide a copy of his/her health insurance card: students must be covered by student liability insurance following acceptance and throughout the program.
• Admission into the program will be contingent on the satisfactory completion of a level 2 background check consisting of a fingerprint check of state and federal criminal history information conducted through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Applicants must be free of offenses as listed in Florida Statues.400.211.
• The student must be able to satisfy, with or without reasonable accommodations, the physical, mental, and sensory requirements to perform the essential duties and responsibilities typically associated with the duties of a registered nurse, including, without limitation, possessing a full range of body motion, handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, eye-hand coordination, and walking and standing for extensive periods of time, as determined by the school in its discretion.
• Interview and obtain approval from the Program Director/Instructor.
• Two letters of recommendation.
• Upon the student’s satisfaction of all the above requirements with respect to the Nursing Associate Degree Program, the school will properly notify the student if he or she is admitted into the program of study at the school. If the number of applicant for admission to the nursing Associate Degree program exceed the enrollment capacity for the program, the applicants for admission will be ranked based on the composite score that each applicant received on the HESI examination. Applicant’s will be admitted into the Nursing Associated Degree Program in order based on their ranking up to the enrollment capacity of the program.
• PIC will only accept 25% of transferring credits from another institution. PIC will accept grades of “B” or above to be transferred for credits from another institution for the general education and nursing courses. The request for nursing credits to be transferred from another institution will be reviewed to meet the following guidelines:
  • Be comparable to a PIC technical/nursing course in content and credits.
  • Be reviewed and approved by the Director of Education or Administrator.
  • Transfer of credits completed by the first day of class.
  • Transferring of PIC credits is at the discretion of the receiving college.
  • Official Transcript and a copy of the Catalog or Syllabi on courses attempting to transfer for evaluation.

It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether another institution of the student’s choice will accept the credits from PIC.

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