Nursing ADN

Applications will be accepted online only through this email: ADN@odessa.edu

Incomplete applications will not be accepted. To allow students to complete the application process by the deadline, we encourage students to submit all required documents. Call 432.335.6672 if you have any questions or concerns.

• Admission Guide Video
• Admission Guide ADN Nursing
• OC Nursing Application Checklist
• ADN Application for Admission

Attendance of a Nursing Program Information Session is mandatory prior to submitting an application. Failure to attend a session will result in automatic rejection of your application.

Information Session Dates for Applicants starting a program in January 2026:

• In Person: September 8th, 2025, at 9:00 AM - In the Wood Health Science Building Community Rm, 201
• In Person: September 29th, 2025, at 5:00 PM - In the Wood Health Science Building Community Rm, 201 o
• Virtual (Zoom): October 15, 2025, at 5:00 PM [Join Here] 

The nursing programs at Odessa College are designed to lead the way in preparing nursing students for practice in a multicultural community within a diverse and changing health care environment, advance the practice of nursing, and provide quality, comprehensive health care in a competent, caring and compassionate manner.

The Odessa College nursing programs will advance the practice of nursing in our diverse and evolving communities of care through increased education of our nursing workforce and fostering the application of management principles, evidence-based practice, and compassionate leadership to improve health outcomes.

• Professionalism and leadership: Demonstrating integrity, lifelong learning, accountability and responsibility while functioning within the legal and ethical scope of practice.
• Clinical Judgment and evidence-based practice: Analyzing assessment data to identify problems, formulate expected outcomes, and develop collaborative plans of care for patients and their family using information from best current evidence.
• Safety and quality: Minimizing the risk of harm to patients and providers through individual performance.
• Patient centered care: Integrating knowledge of patient and family cultural factors when providing care, including age, religion, ethnicity, economics, and gender.
• Informatics and Technology: Communicating and managing information using technology to support decision making in providing patient care.
• Collaboration: Planning and implementing care with the inter-professional healthcare team, patient and family.

*Transition Track for the LVN - The transition student receives advanced placement credit for Foundations of Nursing Practice (RNSG 1513), Clinical Introduction (RNSG 1360), Common Concepts of Adult health (RNSG 1441), and Clinical-Registered Nursing/Common Concepts (RNSG 1261).

*Number of students admitted may vary by term based on program instructional and clinical resources.
**Additional days may be required on occasion. Students will be informed in a timely manner.

TEAS Tests are being given at the testing center.

To sign up call 432-335-6620 or email testingcenter@odessa.edu 

CPR Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers (BLS) class offerings can be found on the CPR website calendar or by contacting Continuing Education at 432-335-6580 or conted@odessa.edu for more information.

Please email records@odessa.edu to request a Transfer Credit Evaluation of your transcript from another college (for the Nursing Program)