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Practical Nursing Program
Diploma in Practical Nursing
Program Overview
At Cambridge, we provide students with the training they need to start their careers as professional Practical Nurses. Our students gain the skills and knowledge necessary to pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN) and become a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). We provide more than just training classes to pass the exam. We give you everything you need to be a successful LPN at a healthcare facility.
What to Expect From Our Practical Nursing Training Program
Every student entering the program can expect to receive the following:
- Classes taught by qualified and registered instructors
- Real, hands-on nursing experience from clinical healthcare facilities
- Preparation to take and pass the NCLEX-PN exam
Our Hands-On Approach to Practical Nurse Training
At Cambridge, you will receive training through clinical rotations, gaining valuable experience in medical facilities. In the classroom, you will get the personal attention you need to prepare for the licensing examination, as well as the work you will do as an LPN.
Our commitment to academic success and clinical skill mean that you will complete the program ready to provide superior patient care. We have cutting-edge facilities in which you will learn how to use the technology and equipment used in the field. When you graduate, it is our goal to make sure you can hit the ground running, fully prepared to complete your work as a licensed practical nurse.
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Program Outcomes
The graduate of the PN program will:
- Coordinate quality, safe, evidence-based, skilled, and patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process.
- Demonstrate nursing behaviors as defined by the practical nurse scope of practice.
- Develop proficiencies in basic nursing skills.
- Participate in collaborative relationships with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary team to provide and improve patient care.
- Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making along with critical thinking.
- Incorporate ethical and legal principles into entry-level practical nursing performance.
Curriculum
At Cambridge College, we take great care when planning and delivering each of our medical learning programs. The Practical Nursing diploma program is no exception.
Practical Nursing Delray Program Curriculum
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Job Outlook
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employment of LPN’s is projected to grow 3 percent from 2023 to 2033, about as fast as the average for all occupations. About 54,000 openings for LPNs are projected each year, on average, over the decade.
The job growth in this field is tied to the long-term care needs of an aging population, and the general increase in need for healthcare services. Many of the new positions for LPNs will be at facilities that provide services to the geriatric population, including nursing care facilities, community care facilities and home healthcare services. While these facilities will drive much of the growth in the industry, hospitals will maintain or even increase their demand for trained LPNs and remain a major employer in the industry.
In addition to a healthy job market, work as a Licensed Practical Nurse is also a common first step to becoming a Registered Nurse (RN) or finding another role in the medical field.
Careers
Overview
Practical nurses and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) are responsible for basic nursing care, medical care and the overall patient experience.
What Does a Practical Nurse Do?
Practical nurses and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) fulfill a number of duties at a range of healthcare facilities. The role is noted for its flexibility—practical nurses should be prepared to serve a variety of patient needs, including:
- Providing basic nursing care, such as changing wound dressings, delivering medications, taking vital signs and charting in the medical record, collecting samples, and seeing to the comfort of the patients
- Gathering and presenting information to RNs and physicians. LPNs often report to a registered nurse or doctor. As LPNs typically spend more time with patients than the RN or physician, they are responsible for communicating vital information about the care and condition of their charges.
- Evaluating the overall needs of the patient. Practical nurses often assess a patient’s needs beyond the medical, paying close attention to everything from physical comfort to potential psychological concerns.
- Educating patients. This education concerns not just the care they are receiving currently, but also future care needs.
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Certification
You will receive a Diploma in Practical Nursing upon successful completion of this program. Should you choose to sit for and pass the NCLEX-PN examination at the end of this program, you will then be able to seek work as an entry-level Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).
Program Summary
- Diploma program
- Thorough preparation for the licensed practical nursing (LPN) certification exam
Program Location(s)
- Orlando Campus – Altamonte Springs, Florida
- Delray Beach Campus – West Palm Beach, Florida
- Miami Campus – Miami Gardens, Florida
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Nursing Schools Turned Away 93,176 Qualified Applicants Last Year. Here Is What to Do If One of Them Was You.The American Association of Colleges of Nursing publishes an annual count of qualified applications turned away. In data released in May 2026, that figure reached 93,176 for the 2025-2026 academic year, the highest ever recorded. Two years earlier it was around 63,000. That is roughly thirty thousand additional rejections in a single biennium.
Miami’s Real Nursing Shortage Isn’t the One You’ve Heard AboutThe Florida Center for Nursing’s Florida Health Care Workforce Projections 2022-2037 found that registered nurse supply growth is on track to closely match demand, holding statewide RN adequacy near 93% by 2037. The RN pipeline is improving. Schools expanded, enrollment rose, and the profession is producing nurses at a rate the state has not managed in years.
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From Nursing Assistant to Nurse Practitioner: What the Ladder Looks Like When Someone Actually Climbs the Whole ThingIf you have spent any time researching nursing programs, you have read the generic success story: an unnamed student, a stock photograph, an arc with no friction in it. It proves nothing, because it describes no one. The reader knows this, which is why it does not work.
Is Practical Nursing Worth It If You Eventually Want to Be an RN? The 45-Week First Step, ExplainedLPNs provide direct, hands-on nursing care under the direction of registered nurses and physicians. Depending on the setting and the state’s scope of practice rules, that typically includes monitoring and recording vital signs, wound care and dressing changes, catheter care, administering certain medications, assisting with personal care and mobility, collecting specimens, documenting patient status, and communicating changes in condition up the care team.