Kaplan College has many locations where it provides career technical training for students preparing for the workforce. Kaplan has a campus location in Sacramento, where it offers licensed vocational nursing as one of its certificate options. The Kaplan vocational nursing program combines classroom learning with clinical experience. Students have practical patient care lessons under the guidance of doctors and registered nurses. Areas of study include medical data collection, bedside nursing, treatment of infections, medication and documentation. When students complete their classroom studies, they sit the licensing exam to become certified as a vocational nurse.
Kaplan College, Sacramento Campus
4330 Watt Avenue, Suite 400
Sacramento, CA 95821
916-649-8168
sacramento.kaplancollege.com
The vocational nursing program at Western Career College in Sacramento provides a foundational nursing education that will send qualified LVN's into the workforce or allow them to take the additional steps and classes to become a registered nurse. For those who choose to head out into the working world as vocational nurses, work is available in hospitals, nursing facilities, doctor's offices and even agencies that provide home-based nursing care.
Western Career College, Sacramento
8909 Folsom Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95826
888-203-9947
westerncollege.edu
Unitek College has added vocational nursing to its course offerings at its Sacramento campus. The school provides on-campus lab facilities that simulate the conditions in a hospital, to supplement classroom study with hands-on training. Unitek has a program that provides job placement assistance for its graduates. Unitek College's LVN program takes 11 months to complete and includes a program to assist students in taking and passing the certification exam after graduation. Classroom study covers patient care and also focuses on anatomy, physiology, surgical nursing, pediatrics, obstetrics, nutrition and psychiatric nursing.
Unitek College, Sacramento
1111 Howe Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95825
916-641-6500
unitekcollege.edu