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California Nursing SchoolsAssociate Degree Nursing Programs The nursing schools listed here offer associate degree nursing programs (ADN) and are approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. The NCLEX ® percentage on this page reflects the percent of first time NCLEX - RN candidates who passed the exam between 2004 and 2005. For more information about the nursing profession choose a topic of interest from the menu at the top of this page. The information on this website is for general informational and educational purposes only. This website makes no representation that the information is accurate, reliable, complete or timely. ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS Allan Hancock College ( 88.24% ) American River College ( 95.16% ) Antelope Valley College ( 92.63% ) Bakersfield College ( 69.12% ) Butte Community College ( 84.21% ) Cabrillo College ( 88.37% ) Cerritos College ( 81.97% ) Chabot College ( 91.67% ) Chaffey College ( 98.18% ) City College of San Francisco ( 76.25% ) College of Marin ( 80.00% ) College of San Mateo ( 87.10% ) College of the Canyons ( 89.69% ) College of the Desert ( 91.55% ) College of the Redwoods ( 94.29% ) College of the Sequoias ( 86.67% ) Compton Community College ( 42.11% ) Contra Costa College ( 100% ) Copper Mountain College Cuesta College ( 96.15% ) Cypress College ( 97.26% ) De Anza Community College ( 80.56% ) East Los Angeles College ( 72.06% ) El Camino College ( 94.20% ) Evergreen Valley College ( 92.68% ) Fresno City College ( 74.25% ) Gavilan College ( 84.21% ) Glendale Community College ( 90.19% ) Golden West College ( 92.79% ) Grossmont College ( 76.62% ) Hartnell College ( 76.67% ) Imperial Valley College ( 62.50% ) Long Beach City College ( 88.33% ) Los Angeles City College ( 66.67% ) Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health ( 81.90% ) Los Angeles Harbor College ( 97.96% ) Los Angeles Pierce College ( 68.75% ) Los Angeles Southwest College ( 55.56% ) Los Angeles Trade - Technical College ( 73.33% ) Los Angeles Valley College ( 75.47% ) Los Medanos College ( 96.23% ) Maric College (private school) ( 77.65% ) Mendocino College ( 78.57% ) Merced College ( 94.59% ) Merritt College ( 79.49% ) Modesto Junior College ( 93.27% ) Monterey Peninsula College ( 100% ) Moorpark College ( 94.81% ) Mount Saint Mary's College (private school) ( 65.91% ) Mount San Antonio College ( 85.71% ) Mount San Jacinto College ( 84.62% ) Napa Valley College ( 68.75% ) National University (private school) Ohlone College ( 90% ) Pacific Union College (private school) ( 67.74% ) Palomar College ( 98.39% ) Pasadena City College ( 78.95% ) Rio Hondo College ( 90.14% ) Riverside Community College ( 94.06% ) Sacramento City College ( 100% ) Saddleback College ( 91.67% ) San Bernardino Valley College ( 87.69% ) San Diego City College ( 83.33% ) San Joaquin Delta College ( 78.35% ) San Joaquin Valley College (private school) Santa Ana College ( 94.74% ) Santa Barbara City College ( 78.05% ) Santa Monica College ( 88% ) Santa Rosa Junior College ( 92.86% ) Shasta College ( 92.31% ) Sierra College ( 100% ) Solano Community College ( 80.43% ) Southwestern Community College ( 80.49% ) Ventura College ( 87.84% ) Victor Valley College ( 90.14% ) West Coast University (private school) Western Career College - Sacramento Campus (private school) Yuba College ( 84.62% ) |
COS AWARDED CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE NURSING GRANTWeed / College of the Siskiyous - Last December, in recognition of the statewide nursing shortage, the State of California allocated funding for Capacity Building Nursing Grants. Since 2000, public attention has focused on the nursing shortage in California. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) forecasts the need for 109,660 more registered nurses (RNs) by 2010. This indicates that approximately 11,000 new RNs are annually needed to fill existing nursing positions. In recognition of the nursing shortage, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger placed a $10 million Nursing Program Capacity Building Initiative on the 2005-06 Budget. These funds were designed to provide additional support for community colleges nursing program infrastructure and equipment. The Governor's intent was to respond to the nursing shortage by increasing the enrollment capacity of community college nursing programs and to ultimately increase the number of licensed nurses in the state. Only two $500,000 competitive awards were set aside for community colleges to develop a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to Registered Nurses (RN) Step-Up Program; fifty-five awards of $127,272 were made available to colleges with infrastructure needs; and, six $300,000 awards and one $200,000 were made available to colleges for the costs of infrastructure for the first year and were only available to applicants that had also applied for one of the fifty-five awards. In March, College of the Siskiyous Superintendent / President, David Pelham, received notification from the Chancellor's Office that the COS grant proposal was recommended to receive full funding for the period of May 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007. In addition, COS will receive $5,555 for each student enrolled in the LVN to RN Step-Up Program during the second year of the grant. President Pelham said, "Over the last few months Dr. Barry Russell, Dean Dennis DeRoss, Grant Writer Karen Tedsen, Licensed Vocational Nursing Instructor Gerri Fedora, diligently worked on a grant application requesting full support of the development of the College's Licensed Vocational Nurses Program to a Registered Nurses "Step-Up" Program. I was informed by the Chancellor's Office that our application had been fully funded." This means that COS will receive $500,000 to begin a new LVN to RN Step-Up Program which will be available in the fall of 2007. Any LVN who has completed the RN prerequisites will be eligible to enroll in the COS RN program. President Pelham stated there are many details yet to be worked out in the months to come. However, this is an exciting step forward for the College's Nursing Program. This new RN Program will actually begin on the Weed Campus before the new Rural Health Sciences Institute is completed at the Yreka Campus. Once the new facility is completed the Program will be moved to the Yreka Campus. COS will develop the new RN Step-Up Program under the direction of the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) and submit the Program to the BRN and the Chancellor's Office for approval. The College plans to enroll 24 students in the first cohort. Vice-President of Instruction, Barry Russell, said "In the interim, COS will complete some additional remodeling to the Weed Campus Nursing Lab to expand the space to accommodate the additional nursing students, and will purchase state-of-the-art equipment to provide a quality facility to meet the needs of the program while it is located on Weed Campus. All remodeling work will be completed with an eye toward making sure that the space will be appropriate for other uses when the program is relocated." Dennis DeRoss, Dean of Career and Technical Education said, "I would like to thank all of our local health care partners and the staff who worked on this grant, especially Karen Tedsen and Gerri Fedora, for making it possible to prepare a successful proposal. I also want to express my appreciation to Linda Zorn, Regional Health Occupations Resource Center director, and Mendocino College for their technical assistance. I'm excited about what lies ahead for our nursing program and our community." Smoking by nurses creates workplace issuesSmoking by nurses can create workplace problems that must be addressed by health care systems to promote better interactions between nurses and their patients and reduce dissension among staff, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center. The study, the result of information gathered from eight focus groups with 60 nurses in California, Kentucky, New Jersey and Ohio who smoke or used to smoke, appears in the Jan. 20 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Research in Nursing & Health. The study is available here. “This study focuses on smoking as a workplace issue, not just a behavior that affects the individual,” said Linda Sarna, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher, a professor in the UCLA School of Nursing and lead author of the study. “Smoking among nurses affects interactions with patients. We found it also affects interactions and behaviors among staff at the workplace.” Among the problems Sarna and fellow researchers uncovered was the perception that nurses who smoke take more breaks, spend less time with patients and are less committed to their profession because they need to smoke during their shift. Some nurses, the study found, structured their work day around such breaks because of their powerful addiction to nicotine. Read more about this UCLA study. |