Each of the three years of the nursing course is organized in two semesters, according to the block system in which intensive periods of theoretical training activities, professional training activities, and individual study alternate.

Attendance is compulsory both for the hours of lessons and professional training hours. The training activity includes lectures, seminars, practical exercises on the techniques described in class, clinical training in health facilities.

Professional opportunities:

the employment opportunities after course from Solano Community College Nursing are identifiable: in hospitals in all hospital operating units and outpatient services; in the territorial and hospital emergency services; in post-acute care facilities, long-term care facilities, assisted healthcare residences, rehabilitation centres, assistance centres for the disabled, hospices; in local, home and outpatient health services; in prevention and public health services.

In the hospital or private practice, the nurses provide care for the comfort and well-being of the sick and carry out medical prescriptions. The state nursing diploma is compulsory to practice the profession.

They perform the specific care and hygiene required by the patient's state of health: blood pressure and temperature measurement, application of dressings, blood samples and injections, preparation and distribution of medication, preparation of the patient for the operating room.

They must listen, meet the families, and provide support and psychological follow-up. The job is physically and psychologically demanding. The organization of work implies a permanent presence with patients. Night and weekend work is one of the characteristics of the job.

Studies / Training to Become a Nurse

Access to nursing studies is now via the Solano Nursing Program. The number of places in nursing should gradually increase over the next five years to meet growing needs.

Vallejo Nursing School assistants and childcare auxiliaries retain a specific access route for professional promotion.

Sterile Processing Technician Schools Vallejo Ca offer high level of education. It includes an oral admissibility test and an oral admission test. It is organized by the rectors of the academy and the vice-rectors.

At Northbay Nursing Institute students follow a three-year academic course. It is supplemented by military, medical-military, and medical-operational training. 

Career developments

After a few years of experience and success in a competition, nurses can specialize in nurse anesthetists, operating room nurses, and childcare workers. This last specialty can be prepared in one year. The nurse can also become a health manager after four years of experience, a trainer in an IFSI, or even a care director.

Nurses after course from Vallejo Cna School can also join the army to work in army training hospitals. It is also possible to become a nurse in advanced practice bypassing the DEIPA (State diploma in nursing in advanced practice), which offers four options: stabilized chronic pathologies, oncology and haematology-oncology, chronic kidney diseases, dialysis and kidney transplantation, psychiatry, and Mental Health).

The nurse can choose to set up as a liberal. You must have worked in a hospital environment for three years to open a practice. The nurse can also choose to move towards osteopathy.