Prenursing (PN)

PN-120 Preparation for Nursing Success (2 credits)

This course is designed to assist the student and accelerate their readiness and potential for success in Nursing. Based on feedback from the Nursing Diagnostic Assessment (NDA), the student will develop and strengthen their college academic vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills specific to the Nursing discipline. In order to respond to their individualized remediation plan from the NDA, they will assess their prior knowledge and current capacities. They will expand their vocabulary, learn how to take effective notes, create a map of readings, identify main ideas, articulate similarities and differences in concepts, and develop memory skills. They will develop a test-taking process and apply it in answering multiple choice type questions; they will learn to articulate and identify specific test taking strategies and when to apply them. Students will use the "Capacities of a Successful Intermediate Student" as a resource for self assessment and planning. PN-120 will incorporate elements of careering. Students will take a new version of the NDA at the course's end. Only for UNN Majors who are unsuccessful in AC 120 (Nursing Diagnostic Assessment).