As baby boomers age and their needs for health care grow, we are experiencing a shortage of nurses nationwide. The rapidly changing, progressively complex healthcare field is struggling to find qualified, highly-skilled nurses and compassionate healthcare professionals to perform vital roles in patient care. It’s our mission to provide life-changing training for adult learners looking to pursue a career in the high-demand, growth-oriented healthcare field.
Are you passionate about helping others?
Are you looking for a new and exciting career?
Are you committed to furthering your career as a Licensed Practical Nurse?
Our adult education program in Practical Nursing is for you!
Practical Nursing
Our part-time, 60-week adult education program is designed to accommodate students balancing additional commitments to family and work. It meets the criteria for continued accreditation by the Accreditation Committee for Education in Nursing (ACEN) and full approval by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing. The program offers comprehensive, student-centered instruction in the care of diverse clients. Students will be exposed to different healthcare facilities within our community to practice hands-on nursing skills. Upon completing this program, you will be prepared to take the National Council Licensing Examination for Practical Nurses (NCLEX-PN) and begin your career in the healthcare industry.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Care behaviors
Teaching-learning principles
Professional behaviors
Communication
Nursing skills
Nursing process using critical thinking
Our Practical Nursing Program graduates are prepared to:
Demonstrate professional behaviors of accountability and professionalism according to legal, ethical, and regulatory standards in the role of the practical nurse in providing care to culturally diverse clients with common, well-defined healthcare needs in a variety of structured healthcare settings.
Apply thenursing process, utilizing critical thinking skills, to care for culturally diverse clients throughout their lifespan with common, well-defined healthcare needs in various structured healthcare settings.
Communicate effectively with clients, client families, and the interdisciplinary healthcare team, using therapeutic communication skills and technology to promote health and prevent disease.
Perform nursing skills based in theory and guided by the nursing process in the provision of safe, competent, effective care to ensure a secure physical and psychosocial environment for the client, family, and healthcare team in an ever-changing healthcare environment.
Demonstrate a caring and empathetic approach to safe, therapeutic, and individualized care for each client or group of clients.
Utilize teaching-learning principles of goal-directed educational plans to promote health, health maintenance, and disease prevention for clients or groups of clients within their communities.
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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Our Practical Nursing Class of 2025-2027 is full! We're now accepting applications for the Class of 2028, starting in August 2026. Apply today!
This 60-week, part-time evening program follows a high school calendar for approximately 15 months. The program starts every August and runs for 3 terms:
Term I – August to January
Term II – January to June
Term III – August to January
Graduation – January
Academic and Clinical classes take place: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 3:50 to 9:45 p.m.
Clinicals are held one weekend each month, October – January and March – June, with times to be determined by the host organization’s needs and availability.
Upon completion of the program and successful passing of the NCLEX-PN exam, your career opportunities include:
Practical Nursing in office settings, clinics, public schools, outpatient and long-term care centers, urgent care, and acute care settings, including rehabilitation centers.
