What is the Boards role in approval of vocational nursing and psychiatric technician programs statewide?
The Board must ensure that: Each vocational nursing program complies with the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, and Each psychiatric technician program complies with the Psychiatric Technicians Law. The Board ensures that institutions develop curricula that will prepare students with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to be successful on the licensure examination. As a result, the licensees are able to provide safe, competent entry level care. In accordance with Business and Professions Code sections 2880 – 2884 (VN) and 4530 – 4532 (PT), the Board reviews each program to ensure that: • Faculty meet education and experience requirements; • The curriculum flows from simple to complex and demonstrates a progressive mastery of competency-based objectives; • Theory and clinical objectives are measurable; • Clinical facilities have an adequate patient census and provide a variety of experiences to enable students to meet their learning objectives; • The instructor to student ratio
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