Overview
Career outlook
Employers hire ADN-prepared registered nurses to provide and coordinate direct patient care, administer treatments, and educate patients across hospitals, clinics, and long-term care settings.
Getting in
What Best Care College asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Interview
- Transcripts
- Background check
- Drug screen
- Immunizations
- Health insurance
- CPR certification
The only RN program is an LPN to RN Associate of Science; applicants must be graduates of an NJ-approved practical nursing program with a current LPN license and 3 months of full-time LPN work in the last two years. Unnamed preadmission exam with a $50 testing fee, $100 application fee, interview, official PN and high school transcripts, proof of legal status. After acceptance: background check, 11-panel drug screen, $3,000 initial payment, liability and health insurance, medical exam, TB test, immunizations, AHA CPR/AED. Five 15-week trimesters; total cost $34,900.
Checked Oct 2026 on the school's site. Requirements change each cycle, so confirm before you apply.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites you'll need to meet to apply to this program at Best Care College. Open a category to see each one.
Entrance exams
1
Certifications
1
Health and background checks
7
Application basics
3
Experience
1
Paths
Routes into ADN. The first step is where you enroll today.
Pre-Nursing to RN
Community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start with Pre-Nursing, find community college ADN programs that fit your goals, and get help planning your prerequisites and applications.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
Pre-Nursing to RN
HSI community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start with Pre-Nursing, find ADN programs at Hispanic Serving Institutions, and get help planning your prerequisites and applications.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
CNA Exam Prep to RN
Community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start by preparing for your CNA exam, gain patient care experience, and get help planning your path into a community college ADN program.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
Georgia CNA to RN
Community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse in Georgia? Start with your CNA, gain patient care experience, and get help planning your path into a Georgia ADN program.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years