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).
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.

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