Nursing Program

The nursing program at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College prepares students for careers in hospitals, convalescent centers, clinics, home care, and physician's offices. The program focuses on knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for the sick, disabled, infirmed, or other individuals or groups. Program courses include: administration of medication and treatments, assisting and physician during treatments and examinations, referring patients to physicians and other health care specialists, and planning education for health maintenance. Get more details below including other Michigan colleges that offer nursing program.

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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (BMCC)

12214 W Lakeshore Dr, Brimley, MI

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, located in Cloquet, Minnesota, is a public two year institution founded in 1987. The school is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, and was founded through a Tribal-State partnership that also includes the school in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.  The school was created in order to meet the educational needs of American Indians in the region and is the only tribal community college in the state

Academics

FDLTCC offers a small number of degree and large number of certificate programs that allow for academic transfer or career training opportunities. Academic transfer programs allow students to pursue education at lower cost by completing the freshman and sophomore years at FDLTCC followed by applying to four year institutions to complete the final two years and earn a bachelor's degree.

Career training programs confer certificates or associate degrees, take between one and two years to complete, and provide an education and training in a high demand industry or field for the purposes of long term employment.

Programs offered include:

• Finance
• Nursing
• Liberal Arts
• Environmental Science
• Political Science

Admissions and Financial Aid

Individuals interested in enrollment at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, may do so through he school's open enrollment policy that requires students to be at least eighteen or have a high school diploma, and to provide a completed application, pay fees, and to submit transcripts and test scores if available.

If standardized test scores are unavailable, students will be asked to take a placement exam. Participation in orientation is encouraged, as is meeting with a counselor prior to the first semester. Financial aid is available in the form of loans, grants and scholarships awarded based on need as determined by a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

Students Enrolled in the Nursing Program

Get more details below regarding enrollment, academics, and school demographics. BMCC offers an associate's degree program in nursing.

Students by Gender (2019)

Students by Race (2019)

Source: IPEDS Survey 2012-2020: Data obtained from the US Dept. of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Data may vary depending on school and academic year.

Career Options for Graduates

Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Registered Nurses

Description

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

Source: Job descriptions, estimated salary and wages, and projected job growth are taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).