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.
8. Leadership: use leadership skills that support the provision and coordination of client care.

 

Degree Requirements

Practical Nursing Requirements

 

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
HC 107	Medical Terminology	1
NU 100	KSPN Foundations of Nursing	4
NU 101	KSPN Foundations of Nursing Clinical	1
NU 102	KSPN Nursing Care of Adults I	5
NU 104	KSPN Nursing Care of Adults 1 Clinical	3
NU 105	KSPN Leadership, Roles, and Issues	2
NU 106	KSPN Fundamentals of Pharmacology and Safe Medication Administration	2
NU 200	KSPN Nursing Care of Adults II	5
NU 201	KSPN Nursing Care of Adults II Clinical	3
NU 202	KSPN Maternal Child Nursing	2
NU 203	KSPN Maternal Child Nursing Clinical	1
NU 204	KSPN Care of Aging Adults	2
NU 205	KSPN Mental Health	2
NU 226	Concept 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