Nursing Curriculum

A nursing career provides a wide variety of job opportunities. Nurses practice in various  settings which include care of infants, children, adults, or the elderly.

Practical Nursing
Colby Community College offers a Certificate in Practical Nursing, offered at both the Colby and Norton campuses.  Successful completion of the Practical Nursing program qualifies the student to be eligible to apply to write for the NCLEX-PN exam.

Associate Degree Nursing
Colby Community College offers an Associate in Applied Science degree in Nursing.

Successful completion of the Associate Degree program qualifies the student to be eligible to apply to write for the NCLEX-RN exam. 

CURRICULUM

The nursing curricula includes nursing and non-nursing courses that help develop well-rounded, competent nurses.  Coursework includes classroom, laboratory, and clinical experiences.  The PN clinical experiences include supervised client care experiences that occur in hospitals and long term care facilities. The ADN clinical experiences include critical care, emergency care, drug and alcohol treatment, rural hospital nursing preceptors, school nursing and obstetrical care.

The nursing program is comprised of semester hours. Sixteen (16) contact hours equals one (1) semester credit hour. The theory-hour ratio is 1:1. The clinical/lab contact hours-to-credit hour ratio is 3:1. For example, A one-credit hour of theory will generate 16 contact hours and one credit of clinical/lab will generate 48 contact hours.