PRACTICAL NURSE PROGRAM

The Practical Nurse Day Program is a full time forty (40) week program which prepares the graduate to be eligible to apply to take the NCLEX-PN examination.  The full time program enrolls a maximum of forty students while the part time program enrolls a maximum of thirty-two students.  The student faculty ratio in the classroom is no more than one to forty and a ratio of one to eight in the clinical settings. 

The program has continuing Full Approval Status from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing.  The curriculum combines lecture, laboratory, and clinical experiences.  Classroom content includes biological and social sciences, nursing theory, and practice. Clinical experiences including medical, surgical, pediatric, maternal, and geriatric at local hospitals, nursing homes, and health care agencies.

A student may be eligible to graduate and receive a diploma when the student has successfully met academic and financial requirements.  In order to receive a signed diploma at graduation, a student must have completed all course work. 

Graduates of the Southeastern Technical Institute Practical Nurse Program may be eligible to receive advanced placement into higher education nursing programs at area colleges.
Program graduates work in various settings including hospitals, rehabilitation agencies, senior settings, outpatient facilities, clinics, schools.

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