American Career College

Vocational Nursing Program

Vocational Nursing is a rewarding and highly respected career field which allows you to help people on a daily basis while you earn a great living at the same time. Career choices are endless with numerous openings for qulaified nurses in hospitals, doctor's offices, clinics, schools, colleges, home health agencies and convalescent homes. For those considering further career choices in the nursing or medical profession, this is a great first step.

ACC gives a challenging but very rewarding curriculum for qualified individuals. Some of the aspects of nursing that you will master are assessments, diagnostic procedures, and treatments. Also, you can learn medical surgical nursing, anatomy and physiology, newborn and child care, pharmacology, infectious diseases and a lot more.

To get a license as a practical and vocational nurse and get to the standard of the CA Board of vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, you need to take the combined academic and clinical training for the national council licensure Examination(NCLEX-PN)

Vocational Nurses - what is their job description?

Vocational Nurses find employment opportunities in Patient Care, Administration of Medications, Surgical Care, Community Emergency Nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Nutritional Counseling, Geriatric Care, Oncology Care and Clinical Care. Shown below are just several of the companies which have employed ACC graduates.

• Cedars Sinai Medical Center
• Lakewood Regional Medical Center
• Garfield Medical Center
• Glendale Memorial Hospital
• Healthcare partners
• Kaiser Permanente
• Brotman Medical Center
• VA Medical Center
• UCLA Medical
• Country Villa
• Huntington East Valley

Where to work as a Vocational Nurse:

• Hospitals (inpatient and outpatient)
• Home health care facilities