The Practical Nursing program prepares the students to become Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs). An LPN is a key member of the healthcare team that cares for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. Responsibilities taught include: administration of prescribed medications and intravenous fluids, patient observation, documentation, basic patient care, data collection, measuring vital signs, dressing changes, performing catheterizations, and tracheostomy care. At the completion of the program, graduates meet training qualifications to be eligible for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). Current program NCLEX passage rate is 88%.

ACT Workeys Levels required for admission: Workplace Documents Level 5; Applied Mathematics Level 5; Graphic Literacy Level 4

Program Goals

• Apply nursing concepts and critical thinking based on biopsychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and spiritual aspects of individual patients across the life span
• Utilize the nursing process in providing safe, prudent care to meet patients’ human needs and demonstrate critical thinking when performing clinical nursing skills
• Integrate theory of injury, disability, and disease processes in relationship to the biopsychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and spiritual health needs of the individual client, utilizing adaptation methods
• Demonstrate competency and critical thinking in the performance of clinical nursing skills
• Utilize effective interpersonal relationships with clients, peers, and members of the healthcare team
• Meet all requirements for application for licensure by the Ohio Board of Nursing
• Consistently demonstrate professional behavior as a member of a health care team, recognizing the importance of adhering to the Practical Nurse Code of Ethics

Courses Taught: 

Program Essentials for Success, Nurse Aide Training Program, Healthcare Terminology/ Introduction to Body Structure and Function, Healthcare Math / Dosage Calculation, Introduction to Nursing, Body Structure and Function, Fundamentals of Practical Nursing, Drug Therapy, Adult Nursing I and 2, Intravenous Therapy, Maternal Newborn, Growth and Development, Child and Adolescent, Nursing Ethics Issues and Trends, Capstone Content/NCLEX Review, Clinical Rotations