Pre-Professional Nursing Certificate
This certificate further develops the skills of the nursing assistant—adding to the caregiver’s written communication skills and providing advanced applied knowledge of the human body and mind, computation, and nutrition. The Pre-Professional Nursing Certificate includes all pre-requisite coursework requirements for application for admission to all regional community college associate degree-nursing programs and to the NAU baccalaureate-nursing program. This coursework may also be applied to most health science degrees. (The courses in this degree require prerequisites. Please see an advisor prior to enrolling in these courses.) This is a Tech Prep articulated program. For more information regarding Tech Prep, click here.
Minimum credit hours required: 24 
Certificate Requirements: 24 credit hours
BIO 181 Unity of Life I: Life of the Cell (4)
BIO 201¹ Anatomy & Physiology (4)
CHM 130¹ General Chemistry (4)
ENG 101¹ English Composition I (3)
ENG 102¹ English Composition II (3)
MAT 142¹ College Mathematics (3)
NTR 135¹ Human Nutrition (3)
¹ Placement test and/or prerequisite required.
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