Vocational Nursing (LVN/LPN), Certificate
The Vocational Nursing Program is an educational program designed to prepare its graduates to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN/VN) to become Licensed Vocational Nurses.
LVN’s function under the direction of licensed health care professionals including a registered nurse, advanced practice registered nurse, physician assistant, physician, dentist or podiatrist to provide safe, compassionate, individualized, goal-directed nursing care to patients who have predictable health care needs. (Texas Board of Nursing, 2015)
Graduates of the Lamar State College-Port Arthur Vocational Nursing Program are currently employed in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physicians’ offices, outpatient community clinics, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies.
The Vocational Nursing Program is an ideal entry-level learning opportunity into a career of professional nursing
Outcomes
Functions within the legal, ethical and regulatory standards of the nursing profession.
Uses a systematic, problem-solving process in the care of multiple patients who have predictable health care needs to provide safe, individualized, goal-directed nursing care.
Adopts an approach to nursing practice that promotes safety for patients, significant others, self, and members of the health care team.
Cooperates with members of the interdisciplinary health care team to provide optimum, evidence-based, safe care to patients.
Recommended Program of Study
Prerequisites
| BIOL 2301 | Anatomy & Physiology I🖱 | 3:3:0 |
| BIOL 2101 | Anatomy & Physiology I Lab🖱 | 1:0:2 |
| BIOL 2302 | Anatomy & Physiology II🖱 | 3:3:0 |
| BIOL 2102 | Anatomy & Physiology II Lab🖱 | 1:0:2 |
| NURA 1301 | Nurse Aide for Health Care | 3:2:4 |
| NURA 1160 | Clinical Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Assistant/Aide | 1:0:3 |
| HECO 1322 | Nutrition and Diet Therapy🖱 | 3:3:0 |
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| BIOL 1322 | Nutrition and Diet Therapy | 3:3:0 |
First Semester
| VNSG 1400 | Nursing in Health and Illness I | 4:2:6 |
| VNSG 1227 | Essentials of Medication Administration | 2:2:1 |
| VNSG 1231 | Pharmacology | 2:2:1 |
| VNSG 1204 | Foundations of Nursing | 2:2:1 |
| VNSG 1261 | Clinical - Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training | 2:0:12 |
Second Semester
| VNSG 1409 | Nursing in Health and Illness II | 4:3:4 |
| VNSG 1234 | Pediatrics | 2:2:1 |
| VNSG 1462 | Clinical-Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training | 4:0:16 |
| PSYC 2314 | Lifespan Growth and Development🖱 | 3:3:0 |
Third Semester
| VNSG 2410 | Nursing in Health and Illness III | 4:2:7 |
| VNSG 1230 | Maternal-Neonatal Nursing | 2:2:1 |
| VNSG 1463 | Clinical-Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training | 4 |