HEMSPN offers a full-time forty-four (44) instructional week or part-time eighty-eight (88) week fourteen hundred (1400) hour, educational and experiential program. Following completion of the program, the graduate who has met the additional State Board of Nursing requirements is eligible to take the NCLEX-PN, a national licensing exam. After successfully passing this exam, the HEMSPN graduate is
able to provide care as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) or licensed vocational nurse (LVN) within the scope of nursing practice as defined by the licensing state. Employment opportunities for the LPN include hospitals, long-term care facilities, healthcare provider offices, clinics, schools, and home health care agencies, etc. The HEMSPN graduate also obtains a firm foundation in nursing which enables him/her to pursue higher nursing education, if desired.