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Certificate in Practical Nursing

General Requirements

 

Program Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the Practical Nursing program the graduate will demonstrate the following in a structured setting:

  1. Relationship-centered care: provide nursing care that is relationship-centered, caring, culturally sensitive and based on the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of clients with commonly occurring health alterations that have predictable outcomes.
  2. Teamwork and Collaboration: collaborate with the client and members of the interprofessional health care team to promote continuity of client care and shared decision-making.
  3. Evidence based practice: use current evidence as a basis for nursing practice.
  4. Informatics: use information and client care technology to support the delivery of safe, quality client care.
  5. Quality Improvement: participate in quality improvement activities assessing their effect on client outcomes.
  6. Safety: provide an environment that is safe and reduces risk of harm for clients, self, and others.
  7. Professionalism: demonstrate accountability for client care that incorporates legal and ethical principles, regulatory guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
 

Degree Requirements

Practical Nursing Requirements

 

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
HC 107Medical Terminology

1
NU 100KSPN Foundations of Nursing

4
NU 101KSPN Foundations of Nursing Clinical

1
NU 102KSPN Nursing Care of Adults I

5
NU 104KSPN Nursing Care of Adults 1 Clinical

3
NU 105KSPN Leadership, Roles, and Issues

2
NU 106KSPN Fundamentals of Pharmacology and Safe Medication Administration

2
NU 200KSPN Nursing Care of Adults II

5
NU 201KSPN Nursing Care of Adults II Clinical

3
NU 202KSPN Maternal Child Nursing

2
NU 203KSPN Maternal Child Nursing Clinical

1
NU 204KSPN Care of Aging Adults

2
NU 205KSPN Mental Health

2
NU 226Concept Synthesis-PN

2
Total Credit Hours:35

For course sequence in the PN program, please see the nursing student handbook or click on the link that correlates to the start date below:

Fall Start Sequence 

Spring Start Sequence