Find your career
Prepare for a rewarding career in a range of health care settings:
- Provide care to clients in hospital settings, including medical-surgical, maternal child and mental health departments.
- Community nursing settings such as: doctors’ offices, nurse practitioner clinics, home-care nursing agencies, ambulatory clinics and public health units.
- Promote community health and disease prevention.
- Work in leadership positions in retirement homes and long-term care facilities.
Loyalist grads have historically scored above the provincial and national averages on the REx-PN (regulatory exam).
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The Practical Nursing program at Loyalist College goes above and beyond to make sure we are prepared for anything. The lab classes and simulations are extremely helpful; we got to work through real-life situations that really prepared us because the situations could change and be unpredictable, just like in the real world. The professors very effectively and efficiently prepared us with hands-on experiences.
Krys, Practical Nursing
Our grads get great jobs
- Registered Practical Nurse, Quinte Healthcare Corporation
- Registered Practical Nurse, Hastings Manor Long Term Care Facility
- Registered Practical Nurse, Lennox and Addington County General Hospital
- Registered Practical Nurse, Kingston General Hospital
- Registered Practical Nurse, Victorian Order of Nurses
Is it for you?
A career as an RPN is both challenging and rewarding. People of all ages can thrive in this program. They must be:
- Passionate about helping others.
- Caring and compassionate.
- Inquisitive and eager to learn.
- Driven to make a difference in people’s quality of care.
- Committed to upholding ethics and morals.