Bellingham Technical College (Practical Nursing Program)

Preparing an educated workforce is central to the mission of Bellingham Technical College. Today's workforce requires complex technical competencies as well as academic skills, positive work attitudes and habits, effective human relations, leadership, problem solving, critical thinking and teamwork skills.

Bellingham Technical College strives to provide students with the competencies necessary to gain employment, to continue to learn, to be productive on the job, and to be contributing members of the workplace and the community.

Bellingham Technical College helps students achieve these skills and competencies in many ways. Consistent with our vocational technical history, BTC believes that the content is most meaningful when learned and practiced in context of the occupation and job expectations. To accomplish our mission and goals, BTC students are required to satisfy occupational program course requirements and related instruction requirements for occupational program degree and certificate completion and graduation

Bellingham Technical College offers a program that prepares the student for licensure as a Practical Nurse. The program is approved by the Washington State Department of Health: Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. Students who complete the program will have met the educational requirements needed to apply for permission to take the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nursing (NCLEX-PN). The program is structured to facilitate lifelong learning skills, which students develop while assisting clients in meeting their healthcare needs. Computer skills are required.

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Practical Nursing Program Courses

Practical Nursing students begin by completing BIOL& 160 - General Biology with Lab, ENGL& 101 English Composition I, PSYC& 100 - General Psychology, and MATH 98 Elementary Algebra or MATH 99 Intermediate Algebra. Math must be completed before Anatomy & Physiology. They then move into the two-course Anatomy & Physiology sequence, BIOL&241/242, and NUR 105 Pharmacology. Upon completion of this coursework, students take the courses contained in Nursing Foundations I, II, and III. The Biology and Nursing Foundation courses are sequenced and must be taken in the order listed. Students must receive a minimum of 2.0 (C) to progress to the next sequential course. A grade of 3.0 (B) is required in NUR 132 to graduate. Computer skills are required. Not including general education courses, a full-time program of study is 3 quarters and a parttime program of study is 6 quarters. There are no summer quarter classes.

Full-time Practical Nursing program: Students may enter fall, winter, and spring quarters and should meet with an advisor to plan and schedule classes. Generally, classes are held between the hours of 8 am and 3 pm or 3 pm and 10 pm on campus. Nursing Practice NUR 102, 122, and 132 are the lab/clinical courses and are 8 hours a day; times vary depending on the clinical location and the shift.

Part-time Practical Nursing program: Students may enter fall only and should meet with an advisor to plan and schedule classes. Hours vary depending on class schedules. Nursing Foundations courses are two or three days a week, generally between the hours of 8 am and 3 pm on campus. Nursing practice NUR 102, 122, and 132 are the lab/clinical courses and are 8 hours a day. Times vary depending on the clinical location and the shift. Students must be able to accommodate the various clinical schedules.

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