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Practical Nursing

LPN/LVNPrelicensure — leads to a first nursing license examPublic

Award: Certificate of Specialization

Program facts last verified October 6, 2026. Each fact links to the official page it came from.

Overview

One-year certificate preparing graduates for LPN practice, with classroom study, laboratory application, simulation and supervised clinical experiences.

Credential
Practical / vocational nursing
Delivery
On-campus
Study intensity
Full-time
Duration
one year
Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Credits
Not verified
Campus
Bremerton Campus — Bremerton, WA

Entry background & licensure

Who can apply
New to nursing (no prior degree needed)
Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Licensure stage
Prelicensure: prepares students who are not yet licensed for a first license exam

Admissions requirements

Prerequisite courses
ENGL& 101, PSYC& 100 and BIOL& 241, each with 2.0, completed by Aug. 31
Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026

Requirements not listed here are unknown to us — not “not required”.

Tuition & fees

Shown exactly as the school publishes it, with its fee basis. Per-credit, per-term, annual and total-program figures are never treated as comparable.

Program tuition: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Institution-wide tuition (all students, not nursing-specific)
  • Average undergraduate tuition, in-state, full-time, 2023-24: $4,197
  • Average undergraduate tuition, out-of-state, full-time, 2023-24: $9,465
  • Required fees, in-state undergraduates, full-time, 2023-24: $275
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 6, 2026

Start terms & deadlines

  • Aug. 31 (year not printed)

    Practical Nursing

    Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026
    Date not confirmed

A date without a year printed next to it on the school's page is shown as “date not confirmed”. Passed dates are never rolled forward.

Clinical, simulation & campus requirements

Simulation
Program includes high-fidelity simulation and supervised clinical experiences
Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026

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Accreditation & approval

Program accreditation, state board approval and institutional accreditation are separate. Records below cover this program's degree level at this institution as the body lists it.

Nursing program accreditation

  • ACEN— Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing

    Practical (LPN/LVN) · Bremerton, WA

    Source: acenursing.org · verified October 6, 2026
    Accredited

State board of nursing approval

  • BON— Washington State Board of Nursing (WABON)

    Scope as stated by the source

    Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026
    Approved

Published outcomes

Exactly as published, with year and population. Results for one program or campus are never applied to another.
MeasureYearResultPopulation / scope
NCLEX-PN pass rateBremerton Campus202495%21 candidates2024 test takers, first-attempt pass rate as published (Practical Nursing program)
Source: olympic.edu · verified October 6, 2026

Sources

  1. ACEN Search Programs: Olympic College — Accreditor directory, verified October 6, 2026
  2. olympic.edu/academics/academic-pathways/healthcare/nursing/practical-nursing-program-overv — Official school page, verified October 6, 2026

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BSNRN-to-BSNFor licensed nurses
  • Bremerton Campus — Bremerton, WA
  • Hybrid · Full-time · Part-time
  • 45 credits at Olympic College (35 upper division nursing, 10 upper division general electives)
  • For: RN with an associate degree or diploma

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