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This 10 month, full time, day program (Monday - Friday, 7:50 am - 2:20 pm) beginning late August through June, prepares men and women to fulfill their dreams to have a career instead of just a job. Graduates are prepared for opportunities in nursing homes, office nursing, clinics, hospitals and community health nursing. At the end of the program students receive a Certificate of Proficiency in Practical Nursing and are eligible to take the NCLEX-PN for licensing as a Licensed Practical Nurse !!

Description

The LPN practices according to the Nurse Practice Act of each state, but generally performs direct care, including the administration of medications, treatments and assists in teaching patients and families. In many long-term care settings, the LPN manages and delegates the nursing care provided by unlicensed personnel, The LPN must successfully complete an educational program that provides the knowledge and skills for practice and pass the National Licensing Examination (NCLEX-PN).

Mission

Assabet Valley Regional Technical School (AVRTS) Practical Nurse Program (PNP) supports and adheres to the mission of the AVRTS district. Further, the PNP is committed to providing the practical nursing student with education, experience and technology to become a safe, professional provider of nursing care to diverse, multicultural populations, with well-defined health care needs. The PNP provides and supports professional behavior, clinical reasoning, therapeutic communication and safe skill development. The PNP values individuals who practice competently with care while maintaining ethical standards, The AVRTS PNP supports practical nursing nursing as a strong foundation for entry into practice as a professional nurse. AVRTS PNP promotes pathways to continuing education to the ADN, BSN, DNP and PhD.

End of Program Student Learning Outcomes

PROFESSIONALISM: Utilizes clinical reasoning to demonstrate accountability for one's own nursing practice, within legal, ethical and regulatory nursing standards, while promoting and maintaining a positive image of nursing.
COMMUNICATION: Utilizes clinical reasoning in the development and maintenance of knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide quality and safe patient care throughout the practice environment.
SAFETY: Applies clinical reasoning to the development and maintenance of knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide quality and safe patient care throughout the practice environment.
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE: Analyse current evidence coupled with clinical ability and makes linkages demonstrating clinical reasoning to evaluate outcomes of care.

Accreditation

Class Completion Rate

Students have the right to know the completion rate for the program.

2017 - 2018

84% completion rate

93% first time pass rate on NCLEX

99% employment of licensed graduates

Of the students who completed this program in 2018 normal time, the typical graduate leaves with $6,552 of debt. The program meets licensure requirement in MA. For licensure in another state check the requirements from that state board of registration in nursing. For information about graduation rates, loan repayment rates, and post-enrollment earnings about this institution please visit https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

Dementia Friendly

The practical Nursing students are partnering with Health Tech. students to make Assabet a Dementia Friendly school. To find out more, go to www.come2bdementiafriendlymarlborough.org

Equal Opportunity

The School is in compliance with Federal regulations, Title II, Title VI, Title IX and Section 504 and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts regulations under Chapter 622 of the Acts of 1972, and makes available its advantages, privileges, and course of student without regards, to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, handicap or disability.

The Assabet Practical Nurse Program received a Responsive Grant from the Metrowest Health Foundation to upgrade the Clinical Resource Center - Simulation Lab. This grant will provide a new AV system for live streaming of simulation scenarios, a video library and faculty training for the new software. A Metrowest Health Foundation Grant was awarded in 2006 for the original construction of the Center and Assabet PN students receive Meterowest Health Foundation Scholarships annually. The partnership of Metrowest Health Foundation has been instrumental in the PN program success.

FERPA

Once a student reaches 18 years of age or attends a post secondary institution, he of she becomes an "eligible student" and all rights formerly given to parents under FERPA transfer to the student. The eligible student has the right to have access to his or her education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, the right to have control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the records (except in certain circumstances specified in the FERPA regulations, some of which are discussed below), and the right to file a complaint with the Department. The term "education records" is defined as those records that contain information directly related to a student and which are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution. For more information and full text go to https://www.ed.gov/

The nursing program has Full Approval Status fro the Massachusetts Board of Regisration in Nursing. The nursing program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing Inc., (ACEN) 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA, 30326, (404) 975-5000, https://www.acenursing.org/

The institution is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Commission on Public Schools Committee on Technical and Career Institutions.

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Looking for Information about the Class of 2021?

Monday, January 13, 2020

Join us for an INFORMATION SESSION to learn more about our program.

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm