Nursing for Veterans

In order to be eligible to apply to the EVC Nursing program all applicants must:

1. Complete the following biology prerequisites (with unit equivalent listed for lecture/lab), with a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or above:

Please note that to the impact of COVID-19 and the sudden transition to a virtual campus, the EVC Nursing program will accept prerequisite science courses taken online during from Spring 2020 to Summer 2022.

And please note the we cannot accept international science prerequisite coursework. All science prerequistes must be completed at regionally accredited institutions. 

2. Complete the below English requirement (or equivalent) with a grade of  'C' or better:

*Accepted starting Fall 2025

Or 

*Accepted if taken prior to Fall 2025

If you upload transcripts showing conferral of a Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university, you will be credited for the English C1000 requirement.

Policy on repeated prerequisite coursework: applicants who have repeated a prerequisite course and have received multiple letter grades for the course (or its equivalents) only the higher score will be considered.

Applicants to the EVC Nursing program must upload unofficial copies of their transcripts showing completion of prerequisite coursework to the Nursing application and send official transcripts (electronic or paper) to the Nursing Department. 

Before you apply to the EVC Nursing program, you need to verify that the coursework that you have completed will satisfy our course prerequisite requirements. If your coursework is not verified for prerequisite equivalency, you will not be credited for completing the prerequisite requirements. How to verify the equivalency of your coursework is outlined below.

If you took the courses specified above at EVC or SJCC your courses satisfy the prerequisite requirement. No further action is required. 

A score of '3' in high school Advanced Placement [AP] coursework is acceptable for the below courses.

Please note that no other AP coursework will satisfy Nursing prerequisite requirements or will earn multicriteria points. 

If you took your prerequisite coursework at any other California community college or California university, check the Course Equivalency Chart for your college and the courses you took. If your college is listed on the chart and the courses that you took are identified as equivalents of the Nursing prerequisites then your coursework satisfies the prerequisite requirements and no further action is required. 

If you completed prerequisite coursework at a university or at a community college not found on the Course Equivalency Chart then you will need to:

(1) Review and complete a Course Substitution Petition. You will need to fill out one petition for each course that you need verified for equivalency. 

(2) Locate syllabi from the courses that need to be verified for equivalency. Make sure to get the syllabus from the exact course you took, in the same term that you took it.  Attach the syllabus along with an unofficial transcript(s) showing completion of the courses in question.

(3) Submit the course substitution petition(s) with the attached syllabi and unofficial transcripts to the appropriate EVC Academic Division. Review the Course Substitution Petition Submission Guide to direct you on where to submit course substitution petitions.

After submitting your course substitution petitions to the appropriate department, you will receive an email with either an approved or declined Course Substitution Petition. If you receive an approved Course Substitution petition, make sure to upload it along with your transcripts when you apply to the Nursing Program. If you do not upload your approved course substitution petition(s) on your application, you will not receive credit for the coursework!

Please make sure that you have your prerequisite course equivalencies verified well before the application deadline, as the process is often takes a few weeks or more. If your petition is taking a long time to get approved, you may check in with the parties that you submitted the petition to. The Nursing department can not assist you with petitions sent to other departments. 

Note one legacy equivalency: If you received an course equivalency approval on the TES database, please indicate on your application that your course was approved on TES. Please note that although we will accept courses approved on TES, TES is no longer used for approving course-to-course equivalency.

1. Military Personnel and Veterans may request for advanced placement in the nursing program during application process if they have the following:
2. Honorable discharge (DD214) or current active honorable service (letter from supervisor).
3. Recency of education and experience within last five years prior to application
4. Served on active military duty in the medical corps of the United States under honorable conditions.
5. Met the same eligibility requirement for admission into the ADN program as other applicants, including completion of prerequisites.
6. Application process policy and procedures are the same for the generic and military personnel/Veteran student (please see the requirements on EVC web site)
7. Military records and transcripts will be reviewed by an evaluator and the applicant must have a DD214 showing completion of military coursework and service/discharge under honorable conditions.
8. Once you submit the application and have met the eligibility requirements (completion of Biology Pre-requisites-Anatomy, Microbiology and Physiology (with unit equivalent for lecture/lab), with a GPA of 2.5 or above for the sciences, and completion of English 1A with a "C" or better), you will be contacted to take the Nursing Challenge Exam.
9. Must pass N001 Fundamentals of Nursing Challenge Exam per policy
10. If you are planning to apply you may review the Book List, Reading List, N001 Syllabus and Lecture Schedule located on EVC's Nursing Department web page under "Forms for Incoming Students" for study material.  The exam is on Fundamentals of Nursing and content is outlined in these documents.
11. The N001 Fundamentals of Nursing Challenge Exam is scheduled in December. Applicants are notified by email.  You will be required to bring a Photo ID to take this exam, and will not be allowed to take the exam without proper photo identification.
12. After you complete the computerized exam, you will be notified if you passed or failed the exam by email. If you pass, you will go to the next step (see below).  If you fail, you will have to wait until the next application period to reapply to the program.
13. If you pass the challenge exam, you will be asked to take the TEAS test, which is scheduled during January through March. For information on the TEAS, please visit https://www.atitesting.com/Solutions.aspx
14. If you pass the Version VI TEAS test with 62% or above, you will go to the next step.  If you do not pass the TEAS test, you will have to wait until the next application period to reapply to the program.
15. If there are more students than spaces available, then you will be included in a computerized random selection (also known as Lottery) to begin the ADN program as an advanced placement student, based on space availability during the academic year.

Major Requirements: All completed with a grade "C" or better

*Associate Degree may require additional coursework per college policy

• California Board of Registered Nursing:  Supplemental sunset review report 2016.  Retrieved at rn.ca.gov/pdfs/forms/sunset2016.pdf.
• SB-466 Registered Nurses:  Board of registered nursing.  Retrieved at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov 

This policy was created December 22, 2016.