What kind of educational and vocational training is needed to become a registered nurse?

To be a registered nurse you have to go to a college or a junior college. Not a vocational school.

ADN - associates degree in nursing. You can get this at most community colleges in about two years. (If there is no waiting list.)

Try this site, good luck... http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm

either 4 years of bachelor's degree at any bachelor's degree program. if you want to get an associate's degree, it is 2 years of nurse's training PLUS the prerequisite classes, which include anatomy, physiology, psychology, nutrition, math, english, and biology. sometimes different schools require different prerequisites. you can get the prerequisites done in a year and a half or two years if you go full time. either way youre looking at approx. 4 years of intense training where youre not working alot (part time or not at all) and youre going to school like crazy. but it is so worth it!!

You will need one to two years of prerequisites in college like anatomy & physiology, microbiology, chemistry, math, psychology, sociology, philosophy... ad nauseum...

Then you get accepted into nursing school for another two years. Most schools these days have a waiting list, but if you get really good grades (GPA of 3.5 or above) you will get moved to the front of the list ahead of the rest.

You can go to a diploma program, associate degree program, or bachelor program. It depends on what your goals are. If you want bedside nursing the associates is the way to go. For managment you will need the bachelors degree, but you won't get as much bedside training in a bachelors program.

Please try: http://www.nursingmasters.com They have lots of good information on various nursing degrees both Bachelors and Masters