Nursing (BSN)

CCNE Accredited

Apply for admission to East Texas A&M and be accepted.

Submit an application for the nursing program through NursingCAS.

All required documents and materials must be uploaded to your NursingCAS application, and your application must be in “VERIFIED” status no later than 11:59 p.m. CST by the following deadlines:

• September 15 for spring admission
• May 30 for fall admission

You must submit your transcripts to NursingCAS even if you're a current ETAMU student.

The following six prerequisite courses specific to the nursing program must be completed with a grade of “C” or better and an overall GPA of 3.0 or better, no later than the long semester prior to your anticipated admission into the nursing program, and you must submit an updated transcript with your final grades once the courses are complete. You cannot be taking core or prereq courses in the summer before fall admission or during the winter mini prior to spring admission.

• Anatomy & Physiology I
• Anatomy & Physiology II
• Chemistry Lecture and Lab (Intro to Chem, Gen Chem, or higher level chem)
• Microbiology
• Statistics (MATH 1342, 453)
• Lifespan Development (PSY 322, PSYC 2314): This course must specifically focus on human development from birth to death. General Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Intro to Psychology, etc., do not count for this requirement.

An ethics course (General Ethics, Professional Ethics, or Intro to Ethics) and a nutrition course (HHPH 331 or BIOL 1322) will also be required as support courses. You must receive a grade of “C” or better in both courses. Intro to Philosophy does not meet the ethics requirement.

You must submit your transcripts to NursingCAS even if you're a current ETAMU student.

Take the TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills). This test must be taken IN-PERSON at a testing center. We no longer allow remotely proctored exams. A minimum score of 58% is required in each section and overall.

If English is your second language, you must submit scores from one of the English proficiency exams listed below that are accepted by the Texas Board of Nursing. This requirement is not waivable even if you’ve completed English I and II:

• TOEFL paper-based (560), computer-based (220)
• TOEFL-iBT (83)
• TSE (50) + TWE (4.0)
• IELTS (6.5 overall, minimum of 6.0 in all four modules)
• PTE (55 overall, minimum of 50 in all four modules)
• MET (55 overall, minimum speaking section score of 55)
• OET Nursing (paper or computer, 300 in each subtest [reading, writing, listening, speaking]

Please Note:

• Duolingo IS NOT accepted
• Remotely proctored exams are not accepted.
• Passing scores must be earned during a single test appointment.
• If any of your module scores are below our minimums, we highly recommend you retake the test.

The following table illustrates the essential eligibility requirements for participation in the Department of Nursing and examples of necessary activities (not all-inclusive) which should be used to assist each applicant in determining whether accommodations or modifications are necessary.

ADA guidelines apply to all qualified disabled persons. A qualified disabled person is a person with a disability who—with or without reasonable modifications to rules, policies, or practices, the removal of architectural, communication, or transportation barriers, or the provision of auxiliary aids and services—meets the essential eligibility requirements for the receipt of services or the participation in programs or activities provided by a public entity and who can perform the “essential functions” of the position. Contact the Office of Student Disability Resources and Services for further information.

All students who are offered and accept admittance to the BSN program must pass a background check.

Background checks are required to protect and promote the welfare of the people of Texas by ensuring each person holding a nursing license is competent to practice safely. To achieve this, the Texas Board of Nursing (BON) regulations require newly admitted nursing students to complete fingerprinting and a criminal background check to gain clearance before enrollment.

An individual enrolled or planning to enroll in the BSN Program at East Texas A&M University who has actual or potential eligibility conflicts must submit a petition to the BON for a declaratory order as to the individual's eligibility for licensure. Neither the University nor its faculty can answer this question for the individual. The Texas Board of Nursing Declaratory Order Petition form can be found here. BON may be reached at: 333 Guadalupe #3-460, Austin, TX 78701, (512) 305-7400.

All students who are offered and accept admittance to the BSN program must submit required immunizations.

Proof of Immunizations will be required prior to beginning clinicals. Please make sure you don’t wait until the last minute to get them as some of them are done in a series that takes time.

• Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis (Tdap)
  • Students must have a single dose of Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis toxoids). Booster is required within last 10 years.
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
  • Documentation of completion of the 2-dose series of MMR or laboratory evidence of immunity to each of the three diseases {lgG quantitative titers) is required.
• Hepatitis B (Note: may take 6 months to complete the series)
  • Documentation of completion of the 2-dose or 3-dose series of hepatitis B vaccine or laboratory evidence of immunity to the disease (Hepatitis B quantitative antibody titer) is required.
• Varicella (Chicken Pox)
  • Documentation of completion of the 2-dose series of varicella or laboratory evidence of immunity to the disease (lgG quantitative titer) is required.