Associate's in Nursing at Delaware Colleges

Delaware Tech Terry Campus

• The Delaware Technical and Community College Terry Campus offers several nursing programs: a practical nursing diploma, and associate nursing degree and an associate nursing degree with advanced placement. The associate nursing degree qualifies graduates to become registered nurses, and includes coursework in the care of adults, children and newborns as well as clinical experience. The advanced placement program is for licensed practical nurses interested in increasing their credentials with additional training to build on their experience. The practical nursing diploma trains enrolled students in nursing basics in preparation for the licensing examination to become an LPN.

  Nursing Department
  Delaware Technical and Community College Terry Campus
  100 Campus Drive
  Dover, DE 19904
  302-857-1300
  www.dtcc.edu/terry/nurse

Delaware Tech Owens Campus

• The Delaware Technical and Community College Jack F. Owens Campus in Georgetown, Delaware, also offers coursework and clinical experience to prepare students for the RN and LPN licensing exams. Program options at the Owens Campus include a full-time daytime program and a part-time evening program. Students in the daytime program can complete their associate's degree for RN licensure in 5 semesters and their diploma for an LPN license in 3 semesters. Evening classes can be completed in 7 semesters for RN licensing and 4 semesters for LPN licensing.

  Delaware Technical and Community College Jack F. Owens Campus
  PO Box 610, Route 18
  Georgetown, DE 19947
  302-856-5400
  www.dtcc.edu/owens/nursing

Delaware Tech Stanton Campus

• The Delaware Technical and Community College Stanton Campus offers an associate degree in nursing for RN preparation only, no diploma certification for LPN preparation, and provides basic coursework for entry-level training and clinical experience for applying core competencies.

  Delaware Technical and Community College Stanton Campus
  400 Stanton-Christiana Road
  Newark, DE 19713
  302-888-5288
  www.dtcc.edu/stanton/nursing

Beebe Medical Center School of Nursing

• The Beebe Medical Center School of Nursing offers several types of nursing training, including the Advanced Placement program for LPNs to increase their credential to RN through coursework that builds upon previous nursing experience. The Beebe School of Nursing also offers a cooperative program with Wilmington University by which RN associate's degree graduates can earn a BSN with one additional year of study.

  Beebe Medical Center School of Nursing
  424 Savannah Rd.
  Lewes, DE 19958
  302-645-3251
  www.beebemed.org/bbnursing/html

Dawn Career Institute

• The Dawn Career Institute offers coursework to train students to become nurse assistants. Coursework covers patient care, safety and emergency procedures, medical termination, anatomy and physiology. Some coursework may transfer as credit toward an associate degree, but students should contact the associate degree-granting institution before enrolling to determine the possibility of transferring credit.

  Dawn Career Institute
  3700 Lancaster Pike
  Wilmington, DE 19805
  302-328-0611
  www.dawncareerinstitute.edu