NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 518

SENATE BILL 454

AN ACT TO ACCORD CERTAIN DIPLOMA SCHOOL CREDITS TO LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Upon application by a licensed practical nurse for admission to a diploma school of nursing in this State, the education, training and experience of such nurse shall be evaluated by the school for purposes of determining what credits should be accorded with respect thereto in the diploma school, and reasonable credit shall be accorded therefor. Such evaluation may include proficiency examinations in various areas of knowledge and experience. The credit accorded pursuant to this Act shall not exceed a total of nine months.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.