The Nursing Allied Health Department organized a Nursing Open House Info night.
The event was held Sept. 16 in the Fireside Room at Bakersfield College from 5:30 to 7 p.m. During the show, they answered questions regarding applications, admissions and eligibility of the Licensed Vocational Nursing and Registered Nursing programs.
“Bakersfield College’s Nursing Allied Health Departments’ primary mission is to offer academic education and give help to students who want to pursue careers in health care occupations,” said program manager Lucas Rucks. The programs they offer are licensed-nursing programs, which are the LVN and RN classes.
Students can be admitted to the program based on their scholastic eligibility and placement on a nursing assessment test. All students and alternates are required to take an approved nursing assessment test. Students must pass with at least a 67 percent or above.
The students who do not meet the passing criteria are offered a remediation program, which will help them be ready to take the test again.
Eligibility is approved by a statewide formula, which is the California College Chancellors Office Prerequisites Validation; it calculates the students’ probability of successfully completing the program. The conditional enrollment information is that all qualified students will be placed in a random draw, which if you are selected will result in filling the programs seats and picking 20 alternates.
The pre-requisite requirements are expository compositions, intermediate algebra, chemistry, microbiology, anatomy and physiology I and II. All pre-requisites must be completed with a “C” grade or higher. When a student is selected, he or she is put through a criminal background screening and random drug testing.
Contact program manager Lucas Rucks of the Nursing Allied Health Department for further information.