Baton Rouge General School of Nursing

Diploma Program

At Baton Rouge General Medical Center’s School of Nursing, we are dedicated to training highly skilled professional registered nurses and are focused on providing our students with the latest treatment techniques, technologies and patient-centered care education in a world where nurses are some of the most valuable professionals.

Fully accredited by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing (LSBN) and the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), Baton Rouge General’s School of Nursing has graduated more than 1,000 nurses since 1984, many of who have completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees and work in advanced practice roles. Our program is consistently ranked among the nation’s top nursing schools for our graduate pass rates on the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX-RN), and for the past ten years, our students have successfully been placed in the workplace immediately following graduation.

MISSION

We will maintain and enhance nursing education one student at a time.

At Baton Rouge General’s School of Nursing, we expect students to serve as positive role models in the practice setting by pursuing excellence, promoting service, demonstrating compassion and reflecting integrity, and we provide graduates with a foundation to accept responsibility to develop and maintain their expertise in practice and accountability to the public.