LVN 45-Unit Option – The Board of Registered
Nursing specifies that the additional nursing courses required of
licensed vocational nurses to qualify for the registered nurse licensure
examination shall not exceed a maximum of forty-five (45) quarter units.
Prerequisites: current California LVN
License, admission to the University, and completion of: BIOL 255 & 256
Human Physiology/Lab (5/1 units); BIOL 311 Microbiology (5 units).
Required courses in the program
NURS 338 LVN Preparation for the RN Program (2 Theory
/ 4 Clinical)
NURS 341 Health Care of Adults Through Senescence,
Part II (Theory) (5)
NURS 342 Health Care of Adults Through Senescence,
Part II (Clinical) (5)
NURS 351 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (Theory)
(5)
NURS 352 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Care
(Clinical) (5)
NURS 446 LVN to RN Nursing
Practicum (Clinical) (5)
Applicants to the LVN 45-unit option need to be aware of the
priority for enrollment into nursing courses described above.
CSU Bakersfield does not offer an LVN to RN degree option. However, SJVC offers a
LVN to RN AS degree,
and CSU Chico offers a LVN to BSN program online.
For further information please contact the Nursing Department at
(661) (654-3101
CSUB Department of Nursing
29 RNC
9001 Stockdale Hwy.
Bakersfield, Ca 93311