Vocational Nursing - Rio Grande City Option
This intensive three or four-semester program offers classroom instruction and related clinical practice in the four basic areas of nursing care: adults, mothers and newborns, children, and the elderly.
Graduates of this program will have a wide array of opportunities for providing nursing care for patients in structured health care settings. Patients cared for by Vocational Nurses typically are experiencing common, well-defined health problems with predictable outcomes.
Students seeking entry in the Vocational Nursing program must file a program specific application and complete additional admission procedures as required (see VN advisor
For printable degree plan for this program, please click HERE.
| FIRST SEMESTER |
| VNSG 1420 Anatomy and Physiology for Allied Health |
4 |
| HITT 1305 Medical Terminology I |
3 |
| VNSG 1115 Disease Control and Prevention |
1 |
| VNSG 1116 Nutrition |
1 |
| VNSG 1122 Vocational Nursing Concepts |
1 |
| VNSG 1133 Growth and Development |
1 |
| VNSG 1160 Clinical I-A |
1 |
| VNSG 1323 Basic Nursing Skills |
3 |
| SECOND SEMESTER |
| VNSG 1226 Gerontology |
2 |
| VNSG 1161 Clinical I-B |
1 |
| VNSG 1331 Pharmacology for Vocational Nursing |
3 |
| VNSG 1429 Medical -Surgical Nursing I |
4 |
| VNSG 1162 Clinical II-A |
1 |
| VNSG 2331 Advanced Nursing Skills |
3 |
| THIRD SEMESTER (Summer Session) |
| VNSG 1330 Maternal-Neonatal Nursing |
3 |
| VNSG 1334 Pediatrics |
3 |
| VNSG 1261 Clinical II-B |
2 |
| FOURTH SEMESTER |
| VNSG 1136 Mental Health |
1 |
| VNSG 1138 Mental Illness |
1 |
| VNSG 1432 Medical-Surgical Nursing II |
4 |
| VNSG 1362 Clinical III |
3 |
