LVN To BSN Program

As of Fall 2007, Sonoma State University Department of Nursing no longer offers an LVN-BSN Program. The state mandated "LVN-30 unit option” continues to be available at SSU.   
The LVN 30 unit option at SSU and all other California State Board-approved nursing programs in California is essentially the RN curriculum for licensure.  This is the same course work that is required in the LVN-ADN program at the community college level and does not achieve the BSN.  It does meet the requirements for the RN licensing exam (NCLEX-RN).

Although SSU still offers the LVN-30 unit option we can only accommodate students on an "as space is available basis" (particularly clinical space).  Over the past several years we have not had any such space and do not seem likely to in the near future.

SSU Nursing partnered with Indiana State University beginning in Fall 2007 to facilitate delivery of their LVN-BSN program in California to make certain that LVNs had access to a quality BSN program throughout the state of California. The ISU program is a distance program via the internet which can be done from any where in California. If you are interested in this program, contact Millie Adkins, ISU-California LVN-BSN Program Coordinator, for more information at 800/496-9613 or by email at madkins5@isugw.indstate.edu .