Our Vocational Nursing Program

Our Vocational Nursing program will prepare you as an entry-level healthcare provider who is responsible for rendering basic nursing care. The program provides theory, technical skills, pharmacology, and off-site clinical nursing experience. This diploma program will provide you with the skills and competencies you’ll need to start your career as a Licensed Vocational Nurse.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Students in our LVN diploma program will learn the following:

• Fundamentals of nursing, including anatomy and physiology of the human body
• Medical and surgical nursing and pharmacology
• Identification, treatment, and prevention of communicable diseases in patients
• Human growth and development
• Maternity and pediatric nursing
• Psychology, gerontology, and rehabilitation
• Leadership and management
• Transition to practice

PREPARE FOR YOUR CAREER

Our Licensed Vocational Nursing diploma program will prepare you to take your NCLEX exam, which is required to enter the workforce as an LVN. Information regarding the NCLEX passage rates for WCUI School of Nursing graduates can be found here.

Students will become eligible to be reimbursed for the cost of the NCLEX exam when they successfully pass the exam and are in good standing with the school.

WCUI’s current combined California NCLEX pass rate is 91.5%*!

*Current NCLEX Quarter Rates up through Qtr3 2019. Please see www.bvnpt.ca.gov for per campus rates

* WCUI’s Vocational Nursing program only leads to licensure in the state of California