Registered Nurse AAS

at Lane Community College

The Lane Associate of Applied Science in Nursing Program prepares students to take the NCLEX-RN licensure exam to become Registered Nurses (RN). This course of study requires approximately 3 years of full time study and also qualifies graduates to participate in a fourth year of study via online lecture & theory and local clinical experiences to earn the Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University or, if the graduate prefers, any of many other RN to BSN programs available nationally.

Registered nurses may be employed in a wide variety of settings including acute care hospital settings, long term care settings, homes, at schools providing care for children and families of those children, in occupational settings promoting employee health, for public health departments, in physician offices, and many others including options to provide health care for persons in under served areas of the world as a part of a religious community or as a member of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).  Their work may involve direct patient care, supervision of certain other nursing personnel, assessment of persons in need of health care, planning care for those persons, delivering or supervising the delivery of the needed care, and evaluation of the patients' outcomes after the care has been provided.  All registered nurses are also responsible for patient, family, group, or community health education on health promotion and disease or injury prevention.