MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING DIVISION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ACADEMIC SKILLS

Associate Degree Nursing is a challenging applied science with a demanding curriculum. Interested students should possess strong overall academic skills and a strong science and math background. Academic skills that will be particularly helpful to you throughout the nursing program are as follows:

• Thorough recall and understanding of Anatomy and Physiology.
• Strong college-level reading comprehension skills.
• Well-developed college writing, grammar, speaking and listening skills.
• Strong basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and decimals) and ratio and proportion.
• Test-taking skills (especially multiple choice tests).
• Organized study skills and effective note-taking.
• Critical thinking and reasoning skills.

If you need to strengthen your skills in any of these areas, tutorial and self-help programs related to these skills are available in the campus Learning Lab.