The program prepares students to work as registered nurses. Upon completion, the graduate will receive an Associate Degree in Nursing. The graduate is entitled to take the California State Board of Registered Nursing licensing exam.
The program offers a series of courses that combine academic classes on campus, skills practice in the nursing skills laboratory, and patient care experience in various hospitals and facilities in the San Francisco area. The courses are Fundamentals of Nursing, Pharmacology in Nursing, Nursing Skills Laboratory, Basic Medical-Surgical Nursing, Maternal and Newborn Care, Psychosocial Nursing, Nursing of Children, Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing and Trends and Issues in Nursing.
Since its founding in 1948 the Licensed Vocational Nurse Department has been dedicated to Vocational Nurse Education, later Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aid Education, and Refresher program. Faculty is constantly exploring more creative and innovative measures to assure the quality of education, while being faithful to its basic principles. In an effort to conceptualize its reason for being the department developed the following mission statement.
The City College of San Francisco's Licensed Vocational Nursing Department provides curricula that prepare students for State License in Vocational Nursing; State Certificate in Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aide; and offers short-term training programs in Geriatric Home Aide, Care of Clients with Alzheimer's, Care of Clients with AIDs, and Care of the Developmentally Disabled.
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