My Academic Plans (MAPs) are designed by faculty and displayed in a semester format showing the fastest path to finishing your certificate or degree. While this is the ideal, you can take courses as your schedule permits. Contact an academic advisor regarding your scheduling needs.
In most cases, the courses you need are available on your selected campus. However, there may be times to complete courses online or travel to another FRCC campus. Location availability is indicated at the time of registration.
My Academic Plan
Program Description
The mission of the FRCC Department of Nursing is to provide excellent education that prepares the learner to become a member of the nursing profession, meeting the needs of diverse populations.
Nursing AAS and certificates are offered at Larimer Campus and Westminster Campus.
Larimer Campus Nursing Admission Requirements
Westminster Campus Nursing Admission Requirements
What You Will Learn
Program Learning Outcomes
1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care in a variety of
healthcare settings to diverse patient populations across the lifespan.
2. Engage in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered care decisions.
3. Implement quality measures to improve patient care.
4. Participate in collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team, the
patient and the patient’s support persons.
5. Use information management principles, techniques, and systems, and patient care
technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
6. Provide leadership in a variety of healthcare settings for diverse patient populations.
7. Assimilate professional, legal, and ethical guidelines in practice as a professional nurse.
8. Promote a culture of caring to provide holistic, compassionate, culturally-competent care.
First Semester
Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.
| ENG 121 | English Composition I | 3 |
| PSY 235 | Human Growth and Development | 3 |
| BIO 201 | Human Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab | 4 |
| NUT- REQ | Nutrition:___________ | 1-3 |
| BIO 204 | Microbiology with Lab | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15-17 |
Second Semester
Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.
| NUR 109 | Fundamentals of Nursing | 6 |
| NUR 112 | Basic Concepts of Pharmacology | 2 |
| BIO 202 | Human Anatomy and Physiology II with Lab | 4 |
| MAT 103 | Math for Clinical Calculations | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Third Semester
Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.
The program offers a Practical Nursing “exit option” course at the completion of the first year. This is for students who would like to complete the requirements to be eligible to apply for the PN NCLEX®. Students completing NUR 169 and the first year of the nursing program may apply for the NCLEX® exam for practical nursing licensure. NUR 169 is only taught over the summer.
| NUR 106 | Medical Surgical Nursing Concepts | 7 |
| NUR 150 | Maternal Child Nursing | 6 |
| BIO 216 | Pathophysiology | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 17 |
Fourth Semester
Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.
| NUR 206 | Advanced Concepts of M/S Nursing I | 6.5 |
| NUR 212 | Pharmacology | 2 |
| NUR 211 | Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12.5 |
Fifth Semester
Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.
| NUR 216 | Advanced Concepts of M/S Nursing II | 5 |
| NUR 230 | Transition to Professional Nursing Practice | 4 |
| GT- ELC | GT-AH or GT-SS:___________ | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |