Performance Requirements: Vocational Nursing

We partner with major Dallas-Fort Worth hospitals for the clinical component of our program. These hospitals may have the following performance requirements to ensure patient safety and welfare.

Physical Requirements

  • Visual acuity (with corrective lenses if needed) to:
    • Identify cyanosis
    • Observe absence of respiratory movements in patients
    • Read very fine, small print on:
      • Medication containers
      • Physicians' orders
      • Monitors
      • Equipment calibrations
  • Hearing ability (with auditory aids if needed) to:
    • Understand the normal speaking voice without viewing the speaker's face
    • Hear monitor alarms, emergency signals and call bells from patients
    • Take / hear blood pressure, lung, heart, vascular and abdominal sounds with stethoscope
  • Manual dexterity to:
    • Use sterile technique
      • Examples: to insert catheters or prepare and administer medications
    • Manipulate and assemble equipment for use

Communication Requirements

  • Communicate effectively in verbal and written form by:
    • Speaking clearly and succinctly when explaining treatment procedures, describing patient conditions and implementing health teaching
    • Writing legibly and correctly in patients' charts for legal documentation
  • Function safely under stressful conditions with the ability to:
    • Adapt to ever changing environment inherent in clinical situations involving patient care
  • Computer skills to:
    • Use a variety of software programs and the internet for research and course projects, including PowerPoint for presentations

 

Contact

Trinity River Campus

Health Care Professions
Advising Resource Hub

Choose your Career Advisor by the first letter of your last name:

  • A–K: Marcie Gonzales
  • L–S: Janette Keen
  • T–Z: Kimberlyn Moore-Debrossard

Call 817-515-1484

Email TR.HealthCareAdvising@tccd.edu

Advising by Appointment

Fall & Spring Hours
Monday–Friday: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Summer Hours
Monday–Thursday: 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

Trinity River Campus East

Patient Care Technician (PCT) & Vocational Nursing Programs

Visit TRHN 3211

Call 817-515-2339

Email General questions: nursing.department@tccd.edu

Email Application questions: tccnursingapp@tccd.edu

Mailing Address

245 East Belknap Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102

Divisional Dean of Nursing

Nikolaos Moraros, Ed.D., MSHSA, MSN, RN, PHN

Email nikolaos.moraros@tccd.edu

Assistant Dean of Nursing, PCT & Vocational Nursing—Workforce

Karen Heard, DNP RN

Email karen.heard@tccd.edu

Updated January 29, 2024