Practical Nursing

Practical Nursing is a program taught at Wytheville Community College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (Five-semester sequential program to include a summer semeste) options.

Practical Nursing is a certificate program at Wytheville Community College that prepares students educationally to qualify as contributing members of the health care team and render patient care as practical nurses in a variety of health services facilities. Students who complete the program are educationally eligible to sit for the NCLEX-PN exam, leading to licensure as a practical nurse.

The program is a five-semester sequential program that includes a summer semester. It begins each fall semester with two preclinical semesters, followed by three clinical semesters. Classes are held at WCC’s location at the Crossroads Institute, with two days per week during the first two semesters and four days per week during the last three semesters.

Modules

• PNE 141
• Nursing Skills I
• PNE 155
• Body Structure and Function
• SDV 100
• College Success Skills
• HLT 105
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• PNE 142
• Nursing Skills II
• PNE 173
• Pharmacology

The minimum requirements for admission in Practical Nursing at Wytheville Community College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Wytheville Community College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Wytheville Community College as pre-requiste for admission in Practical Nursing.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

• To enter the Certificate Practical Nursing Program, the student must be a rising senior in a dual-credit high school program, a high school graduate, or the equivalent.
• High school courses must include one unit of biology and one unit of algebra with a grade of “C” or better.
• Competency in English as demonstrated through the placement and diagnostic tests, or by satisfactorily completing the required developmental courses.
• Students enrolled in the first year Practical Nursing class must complete developmental courses before beginning PNE 162.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.wcc.vccs.edu/program/practical-nursing

• Graduates will be able to obtain a position in health-related facilities such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, physicians’ offices, or other health-related agencies.
• Upon successful completion of the program, students will be educationally eligible to sit for the NCLEX-PN exam leading to licensure as a practical nurse.

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.