What You’ll Learn

1st Semester:

You’ll be learning the basics, skills, and safety, with a refresher on how to study and succeed in school (great for students that have been out of school for a while):

• Basic nursing skills, communication, and safety then practicing them on computerized mannequins.
• Medical math, administering medication, electronic health records, and confidentiality.
• Most of your learning will take place in the classroom and skills/simulation lab where you’ll practice on mannequins. At the end of the semester, you’ll head to long-term care facilities to practice hands-on care tasks on patients with instructor supervision.
• NCLEX prep : We’ll focus on study habits, test-taking strategies, breaking down problems, and begin taking NCLEX-style tests.

2nd Semester:

You’ll dive into the body systems, illness, and medications and practice our new skills in more real-life, hands-on settings:

• Learn each body system and do a brief overview of healthcare concerns, tests and diagnostic assessments.
• Review groups of medications, their actions and uses, therapeutic response, and side effects.
• You’ll still be in the classroom learning new skills, but you’ll spend more time in the simulation labs and hospital facilities practicing your skills with your instructor’s guidance.
• NCLEX prep : You will apply the test-taking strategies specific to disease, disorders, and medications.

3rd Semester:

The third and fourth semester function like part A and part B of the same categories. You’ll cover half of the body systems in depth now, and the rest in depth next semester:

• Diving deeper into each body system and the diseases, disorders, and treatment plans.
• Assessing situations individually and using critical thinking and clinical judgement.
• Disorders related to mental health, treatment plans, assessments, and evaluations.
• Continued study of medications, their actions and uses, therapeutic response and side effects.
• You’ll demonstrate your skill knowledge and clinical judgement at hospitals and mental health facilities with more complex patient care and patient teaching.
• NCLEX prep : You’ll be testing on mental health and preparing with video patient scenarios.

*This is where the RN Bridge students will join the RN group after completing a summer “Transition” semester. If you’re currently an LPN and interested in the RN Bridge program, click here.

4th Semester:

During your final semester, you’ll be getting into the final body systems, looking at nursing from conception through adolescence, leadership in nursing, and preparing for entering the workforce:

• You’ll cover the remaining body systems and the diseases, disorders, and treatment plans.
• Conception to adulthood and the diseases, disorders and care needed for those ages.
• Working on leadership, management, and entering the workforce with resume, interview, and job-related skills.
• You’ll job-shadow a nurse for 48 hours and work with them, so you can experience their specialty in-depth.
• You’ll practice skills in a variety of locations such as Peds/OB Clinics, Labor and Delivery, Walk-In Clinics, ER, OR, ICU, Wound Care, Cancer Center, Dialysis and more.
• NCLEX prep : You’ll be taking NCLEX-style tests in all the major subject areas as well as the NCLEX Predictor, which should reflect your outcome as if you were to take the real NCLEX. You’ll then get tutoring specific to any weak areas you may have – all during the program!