Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) provide direct patient care under the direction of a Registered Nurse or a licensed physician. Vocational nurses provide individual and family centered nursing care, and help assess basic physical, emotional, spiritual, and sociocultural needs of the patient.

Vocational Nursing professionals are employed in a variety of health care settings that include hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physician’s offices, clinics, correctional facilities and home health care agencies.

Registered Nurses routinely perform a variety of important tasks, including:

• Monitoring patients’ health and vital signs (for example, by checking blood pressure).
• Providing basic patient care, including administering medications and injections, changing bandages and inserting catheters.
• Assisting physicians to perform a variety of different medical procedures
• Providing for the basic comfort of patients, such as helping them bathe or dress.
• Discussing the care they are providing with patients and listening to their concerns.
• Reporting patients’ status and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
• Recording patient health and medical information.
• Other important health care tasks.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program combines critical thinking classes and leadership training with an in-depth review of healthcare subjects that are important in nursing and healthcare today. Classes include: nursing roles and issues, health assessment techniques, nursing research methodology, introduction to public health, pathophysiology, cultural diversity, disaster management, introduction to biostatistics, and more.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Glendale Career College is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES).

*Glendale Career College cannot guarantee employment.