Nursing | Paramedic to RN Advancement Placement Option

Recommended basic skills courses are: 

  • Basic Computer Literacy
  • College Readiness in English
  • College Readiness for Quantitative Literacy

Pikes Peak State College offers an advanced placement associate degree program for certified Paramedics. Prior Paramedic course work from an accredited school within the USA and a current Paramedic license/certificate in good standing may be accepted.

Admission criteria for the state community college nursing programs are standardized and subject to change. PPSC nursing program maintains a competitive admission process. Students should complete the Paramedic to Nursing program application to the PPSC nursing program after completing all prerequisites by downloading a copy from the PPSC nursing website. Students must pass background check, drug screen, and complete immunizations prior to admission.

Declaring the Nursing AAS as your major does not mean you’ve been officially admitted to the program yet. Admission to this program is selective and competitive. There are prerequisite classes and additional steps you’ll need to complete before you can apply for program entry to be considered for program acceptance. Additional information is available on the Nursing web page.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Nursing degree program, students should be able to:

  • Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, person-centered nursing care in a variety of healthcare settings to diverse patient populations across the lifespan
  • Engage in critical thinking/clinical judgment to make person-centered care decisions
  • Implement quality measures to improve patient care
  • Participate in collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team, the patient, and the patient’s support persons
  • Use information management principles, techniques, and systems, and patient care technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, and support decision-making
  • Provide leadership in a variety of healthcare settings for diverse patient populations
  • Assimilate professional, legal, and ethical guidelines in practice as a professional nurse
  • Promote a culture of caring to provide holistic, compassionate, culturally competent care