Covenant School Of Nursing

The Covenant School of Nursing / Methodist Hospital School of Nursing


Located in Lubbock, Texas, the Covenant Health System member Covenant School of Nursing (CSN), formerly called the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, is the oldest school of registered nursing on the South Plains, a Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas and NLNAC-accredited diploma program that prepares nursing students for licensure as qualified registered nursing graduates.

The Covenant School of Nursing program provides their students with meaningful training experiences in the classroom, lab, as well as in the formal clinical setting. The nursing school is dedicated in offering a full-time 76-week hospital-based diploma-nursing program that prepares their students for licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) after completing 9specific prerequisite college courses, as well as giving 12-month Advanced Credit program to Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) for opportunities to complete their registered nursing education. This Advanced Credit program for LVN/LPN's 12-month curriculum consists of 100-hours, a summer part-time Transition Course (classroom and laboratory experiences summarizing Level-1 course topics) followed by 38weeks of Level-II courses.
The Covenant School of Nursing is devoted in placing their curriculum in a supportive learning environment that makes nursing school a positive and nurturing experience that is also fun for the students. The registered nursing program consists of classroom, clinical skills labs, plus clinical field experiences at some 20different healthcare facilities in the Texas Lubbock area. Through the clinical field-work, the students are able to deal directly with patients hence developing their “hands-on” skills after only 2-months training and 2-days+ weekly exposure in clinical settings for 2-years.
Nurses aspiring for admission to the courses mentioned will find that the Covenant School of Nursing is an Equal-Access/Equal-Opportunity School that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, or disability, while also offering financial assistance such as Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), Federal Stafford and Federal PLUS loan programs, Covenant Health System's HealthTraxx, as well as other aids including Scholarships (available during the second half of the student's junior year), Discounted meals for the hospital cafeteria, the Possibility of part-time work, and Limited healthcare services for the deserving CSN students.
Nursing students must be able to attend, fully participate, and successfully complete all classroom, lab and clinical components of each of the required RN nursing courses in order to graduate from Covenant School of Nursing. The CSN graduates then become fully-eligible to apply for the National Council Licensure Examination-RN (NCLEX-RN). Then one year after graduation, the graduates and their employers are surveyed and evaluated to indicate the high degree of graduate-and-employer satisfaction with the CSN graduate's ability to meet objectives and perform as a proficient nurse in the workplace.