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.
Paths
Routes into ADN. The first step is where you enroll today.
Find your next step.
Getting in starts with a path. Pick one, then follow the people who already did it.