Military Personnel

Challenge/Advanced Placement Policy for Military Trained Healthcare Personnel

Individuals who have held Military Health Care Occupations, specifically: Basic Medical Technician Corpsman (Navy HM or Air Force BMTCP), Army Health Care Specialist (68W Army Medic) or Air Force Independent Duty Medical Technician (IMDT 4N0X1C) may achieve advanced placement into the nursing program with documentation of education and experience qualifying them for the specific Military Health Care Occupation, and proof of honorable discharge.

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Policy

1. Acceptance of Military Challenge students into the Associate Degree Nursing Program is contingent upon space availability.
2. Military challenge students who were not successful in a previous nursing program are not eligible to apply for admission to the nursing program as an Advanced Placement student.
3. Applicants must complete the National League for Nursing Pre-Admission Examination (NLN-PAX) with a score of 114 or above before being eligible for Nursing 19 or the Challenge procedure.
4. Applicants must successfully complete Nursing 19, Orientation for Advanced Placement.
5. All ADN Prerequisites must be completed prior to Nursing 19, Orientation for Advanced Placement.
6. If Nursing 19 is not offered, the applicant may choose the following Challenge procedures. 

Nursing 19 Challenge Procedures

1. HESI Fundamentals Exam with a score of 850 or greater.
2. Nursing 36, Calculations in Drugs and Solutions challenge exam with a score of 75% or better.
3. Skills competency exam

Procedure

1. Interested candidates must request an appointment with the Nursing Counselor at least four weeks prior to any application period to discuss eligibility requirements for the Associate Degree Nursing Program.
2. Applicants considered for advanced placement will include those individuals who have satisfactorily completed, within the last two years from the date indicated on the applicant’s DD-214, education and experience for the following:
3. Basic Medical Technician Corpsman (Navy HM or Air Force BMTCP) 
4. Army Health Care Specialist (68W Army Medic)
5. Air Force Independent Duty Medical Technician (IMDT 4N0X1C) 
6. Applicants applying for transfer credit must submit the following materials verifying education and experience: official copies of transcripts from appropriate education program(s), demonstrating satisfactory completion of coursework and clinical experience.
7. Documentation of experience 
8. After a review of the applicant’s documentation and upon determination that the applicant has met the educational and experience requirements as well as the additional nursing program admission requirements, the student will be required to successfully pass Nursing 19, Orientation for Advanced Placement.
9. If Nursing 19 is not offered the applicant must successfully pass the HESI Fundamentals exam, a competency skills exam, and a dosage calculations challenge exam.
10. The HESI Fundamentals exam, skills competency examination, and the challenge exam for Nursing 36 Calculations in Drugs and Solutions must be completed eight weeks prior to admission to the program, unless waived by the Director of the Nursing Program.
11. The following materials will be available to the applicant once challenge confirmation is made:
12. Nursing 36 course syllabus
13. List of skills for competency exam
14. Nursing Skills textbook used in SMC’s Nursing Program
15. If the above requirements are not met the student should attend an information session to learn more about the Generic RN program.