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The Practical Nursing program at SCTCC provides students with learning opportunities in various settings to ensure every student succeeds in the workforce.

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DEGREES IN Practical Nursing

Practical Nursing Diploma

DIP
This Diploma provides graduates with the skills needed for a career as an LPN in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health care, and even private nurses. This degree provides a foundation for career mobility to an associate or bachelor's RN majors.
Course List

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40
Credits

Practical Nursing Diploma - Part-time

DIP
This Diploma provides graduates with the skills needed for a career as an LPN in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health care, and even private nurses. This degree provides a foundation for career mobility to an associate or bachelor's RN majors.
Course List

By the Numbers

40
Credits

Why Choose This Program

Our students work closely with physicians, registered nurses, and other healthcare professionals in the delivery of delegated medical care and skills. SCTCC’s program gives students the opportunity to provide holistic care for a diverse population of patients. 

SCTCC’s Practical Nursing program emphasizes the importance of meeting basic needs within the framework of normal growth and development throughout the lifespan of a student’s career. 

Learning experiences are developed utilizing the nursing process as a framework to train Practical Nursing students. We place an emphasis on safe practice and the role of the Licensed Practical Nurse. 

With both full-time and part-time enrollment options, the Practical Nursing program provides a foundation for career mobility with associate or baccalaureate professional nursing programs to ensure every student gets the education that is perfect for them. 

Successful completion of SCTCC's practical nursing program will allow you to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN), which is necessary to for licensure and practice as a licensed practical nurse (LPN).

97.6%
2022 Placement Rate
$24
Central MN Median Wage
99%
2021 College Placement Rate
Entry of SCTCC

Placement rate from self-reported data of employment in field of study up to one year post graduation. Wage data is from Minnesota Dept. of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

From Degree to Career

When you choose the Practical Nursing program at SCTCC, you’ll gain skills that will directly transfer to the workplace. There are several employers in the St. Cloud area that are ready to hire LPNs.

All SCTCC graduates from the Practical Nursing program are equipped with the skills needed to succeed in the workforce. Our students demonstrate therapeutic communication skills while working with patients to practice nursing care that is patient and family centered, culturally sensitive, and based on the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients across their lifespan. 

After graduation, Practical Nursing students know how to provide rationale to patients for judgments that utilize safe and quality care and promote the health of the patient. SCTCC graduates minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through system effectiveness and individual performance. 

With a Practical Nursing degree, students demonstrate accountability that coincide with the legal and ethical nursing practice standards, and can foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care within their nursing and inter-professional teams. 

SCTCC graduates support quality improvement by contributing to the implementation of care and the utilization of resources to improve health care services. To ensure success, our students learn to integrate the most accurate and current evidence with clinical expertise, patient and family preferences, and values for delivery of optimal health care in various healthcare settings.


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Types of Careers 

With a degree in Practical Nursing from SCTCC, students have various career options. From long term care, Gerontology, acute care, to psychiatric mental health, our graduates can use their degree to succeed in the path they choose. 

Potential Employers 

After graduation, SCTCC students have worked with long term care facilities, assisted living, hospice, home care agencies, acute care and hospitals, and clinics. 

From schools, veteran’s health care systems, community behavioral health hospitals, correctional facilities, and industrial and occupational health, the options as an SCTCC Practical Nursing graduate are limitless. By utilizing skills taught in the classroom, our graduates are certain to succeed in the career path they pursue. 

Projected Job Growth 

With a Practical Nurse degree in Minnesota, the projected growth rate between 2016 and 2026 is 8.3%, according to MN DEED. As a growing profession, SCTCC is proud to train Practical Nurses to enter the workforce. 

Quick Glance 

Types of Careers

  • Long Term Care: Gerontology 

  • Acute Care 

  • Psychiatric Mental Health 

  • Primary and Preventative Care 

  • End-of-Life Care 

  • Pediatrics 

  • OB/GYN 

Potential Employers

  • Long Term Care Facilities 

  • Assisted Living 

  • Hospice 

  • Home Care Agencies 

  • Acute Care/Hospitals 

  • Clinics 

  • Schools 

  • Veterans Health Care System 

  • Community Behavioral Health Hospitals 

  • Correctional Facilities 

  • Industrial/Occupational Health 

The Practical Nursing Program at St. Cloud Technical & Community College located in St. Cloud, Minnesota is accredited by the:  
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) 
3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850 
Atlanta, GA 30326 
404-975-5000 

The most recent accreditation decision made by the ACEN Board of Commissioners for the Practical nursing program is Continuing Accreditation. 

View the public information disclosed by the ACEN regarding this program at http://www.acenursing.us/accreditedprograms/programSearch.htm. 

Practical Nursing is approved by the Minnesota Board of Nursing, 1210 Northland Drive Suite 120, Mendota Heights, MN 55120. Telephone: (612) 317-3000, Fax: (651) 688-1841

Percentage of First -Time Success Rate of NCLEX -PN Candidates

 

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Are you ready to learn more about the Practical Nursing program and being a student at SCTCC? Visit SCTCC for a tour or an information session.

Connect with the SCTCC Admissions team:

  • Call us at 320-308-5089
  • Email us at enroll@sctcc.edu
  • On campus Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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To build a community within the program, SCTCC Practical Nursing students have the option to join the student club, the Nursing Club.

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Questions? Contact our Faculty or Staff 

Terri Larson

Terri Larison

Practical Nursing Instructor

TLarison@sctcc.edu
320-308-3700

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Kristen Bauer

PT Practical Nursing Instructor

KBauer@sctcc.edu
320-308-5740
Dawn Straley

Dawn Straley

Practical Nursing Instructor

dawn.straley@sctcc.edu
320-308-5437

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Julie Furman

Practical Nursing Instructor

julie.furman@sctcc.edu
Traci M. Kooiman

Traci M. Kooiman

Practical Nursing Instructor

traci.kooiman@sctcc.edu
320-308-5363
Ryan Welle

Ryan Welle

Administrative Assistant for Health Sciences & Nursing

ryan.welle@sctcc.edu
320-308-5403
Nadia Corrieri

Nadia Corrieri

Administrative Assistant for Health Sciences & Nursing

nadia.corrieri@sctcc.edu
320-308-5485
Judy Plumski

Judy Plumski

College Lab Assistant - Nursing

judith.plumski@sctcc.edu
320-308-5145
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Jennifer Knaack

Director of Nursing

jennifer.knaack@sctcc.edu
320-308-6639

Admitted Pre-Practical Nursing Students at SCTCC 
Current students who are Pre-Practical Nursing can contact the Academic Advising Center. 

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Academic Advising Center

advising@sctcc.edu
320-308-5741

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