Associate Degree Nursing
Associate in Applied Science
Modes of Instruction
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Kaskaskia College's Associate Degree Nursing Program (ADN) provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide nursing care to patients of various ages in a variety of settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, physician’s offices, and community agencies. With a dedicated and experienced faculty, a state-of-the-art Nursing Education Center, a simulation lab, and convenient clinical sites, students attending Kaskaskia College can earn their degrees and become practicing nurses in as little as one or two years. New students are admitted four times per year, and hands-on experience begins your first week of class. KC's program also prepares you if you wish to continue your educational career at a four-year college or university.
The Associate Degree Nursing program prepares students to pass the NCLEX-RN examination and practice as Registered Nurses. Current Program Outcome results include:
- The current 2023 NCLEX-RN pass rate is 100%
- Job placement rate as Registered Nurses 100%
- Program completion within four semesters: 27.6%
To apply to the College, please click the Apply button below. To apply to this program, scroll to the bottom of the page and under “Additional Information”, choose the Allied Health Applications link.
How to Apply to the Program
1. Apply to Kaskaskia College (see link above).
2. Fill out the Allied Health Application. The link contains applications to all the Kaskaskia College Allied Health Programs.
Questions? Learn more about the Nursing Program Application Process.
End-of-Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Provide safe, quality, evidence-based care to meet the unique needs of diverse patients, families, and community groups.
- Demonstrates therapeutic communication that is caring and respectful with the patients, families, and healthcare team.
- Practices patient advocacy.
- Utilizes evidence-based practices to make clinical judgments.
- Prioritizes organized care of multiple patients.
- Practices behaviors showing reliable, ethical, and legal responsibility.
- Utilizes evidence-based knowledge to teach prevention and health promotion practices.
Students completing this degree must also complete curriculum requirements aligned with General Education Student Learning Outcomes.
Alpha Delta Nu
Kaskaskia Colleges Alpha Delta Nu Nursing Honor Society recognizes academic excellence in Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program students. Established by the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) in 2012, the Alpha Delta Nu Nursing Honor Society encourages the pursuit of advanced degrees in the nursing profession and continuing education as a lifelong professional responsibility. Additionally, the society shall participate in recruiting qualified individuals into the nursing profession.
Provisional membership is offered to students in the second semester of the ADN Program who have earned a grade of B or better in each nursing course. During provisional membership, students are required to create and actively participate in an educational or recruitment service project designed to further interest in the nursing profession. Full membership into Alpha Delta Nu is granted in the final semester of the ADN Program to students who have completed the service project and continue to maintain a B or better grade in each nursing course.
Program Details
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