The SBBCollege Santa Maria Vocational Nursing program was ranked 5th out of 129 vocational nursing programs – making it one of the top nursing programs in California!

Analyzed by Top Nursing, an online handbook of schools nationwide, SBBCollege Santa Maria was ranked 5th due to its access to cutting-edge technology, accomplished faculty, and financial aid. TopNursing.org, provides a professional guide to assist potential individuals interested in pursuing a career in nursing. They rank schools based on the following criteria: a high pass rate of alumni in the National Council Licensure Examination; financial aid options the school provides, and the number of students.

SBBCollege is so honored and proud of our students and faculty for this recognition. Jose Huitron, Campus Director of SBBCollege Santa Maria, said “this is a great honor given to our Vocational Nursing program. Our faculty and staff work hard to provide a strong program for our students seeking nursing careers. We’re thrilled their efforts have been recognized.”

The SBBCollege Vocational Nursing program helps provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for an entry-level vocational nursing positions in multiple healthcare related settings.

Students in the SBBCollege Vocational Nursing Program  receive hands-on training: understanding the skills required for patient care and safety; such as hygiene, feeding, transfer techniques, medication administration, oxygen administration, Foley catheter insertion and care, tracheostomy care, and wound care.

In addition to healthcare programs, we offer online degree programs at the associate’s and bachelor’s levels, job-training programs, and an MBA program. But we don’t stop there. SBBCollege provides job-placement assistance to each graduate and financial aid is available to those who qualify.

There are always lots of fun activities and initiatives happening across our different campuses. We’ve been really busy over the past few months, so here is a quick roundup of some of the best things which have been going on at SBBCollege.

In Ventura, there were some scary looking characters spotted around campus for Halloween. Well done to all of those who made the effort, with some amazing costumes and pumpkin carvings on show.

On October 21st, our Health and Business Career Fair brought our students together with local employers and an opportunity to build their interviewing skills…

At the start of October, Santa Maria held the annual Student Awards Ceremony which celebrates the many successes of our students. Here are some pictures from the event, where everyone had a great time.

On September 24th, Ventura students were lucky enough to get a visit from Officer Bates, who shared his experiences of the roles and responsibilities as a senior police officer with the Port Hueneme PD.

September 17th marks Constitution Day and we celebrated accordingly across our campuses. In Ventura we observed the day by relating the 200+ year old document to criminal proceedings for interested students. In Santa Barbara we hosted a fun quiz and presentation, including an engaging skit from our faculty members which went down very well with the students!

On September 11th, a few of our health professionals in Medical Assisting and Vocational Nursing represented SBBCollege at the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce Trade Show.

On August 25th, Sophia and Barbara from Community Health Centres of the Central Coast spoke to our Santa Maria Medical students about a career in healthcare! Big thanks to them for coming in!

In Santa Maria we held our Criminal Justice Careers Fair on August 11th, showing current and prospective student some of the great careers which can be enjoyed in the criminal justice field.

Things are always busy around our campuses so we’d like to take the chance to roundup some of the recent events and news.

On November 3^rd, some artistic students in our Vocational Nursing program at Rancho Mirage produced this for a group project.

On November 4^th, SBBCollege Rancho Mirage Students helped out at the American Heart Association Heart Walk doing stroke symptom demos, blood pressure checks and demonstrating life-saving skills with CPR.

On the 6^th of November, Criminal Justice students showed their artistic skills with a team project examining teams and roles. This judge and jury sculpture was the result!

On November 17^th our Criminal Justice students were seen modeling their brand new Criminal Justice polos.

On November 19^th “Mama Salazar” started her first day of school at SBBCollege. Her daughter was very proud of her and posted this shot.

November 26^th saw staff at Rancho Mirage showing off Thanksgiving baskets that were delivered to students.

We also saw some of our International students gather for Thanksgiving.

December 3^rd saw us host another successful blood drive on campus in Rancho Mirage for Lifestream. This came just a couple of weeks after our Bakersfield campus held a bone marrow donor drive to gain more donors for the Be The Match Registry.

Video Transcript:

How you doing? I’m Craig Lansley, campus director here for SBBCollege in Rancho Mirage. Today we have a group of about 50 high school students coming from Desert Hot Springs High School which is about 10-15 miles away. They’re going to come and work with our criminal justice professors and our criminal justice students going over some crime scenes, what to look for when they come upon a crime scene, what information they take. They’re going to work on finger printing and potentially some police photography. So we’re excited to have them. We’ve got about ten of our criminal justice students that are going to work with them. We have our staff that’s ready to greet them and see what they’re future aspirations are so we look forward to it and hope to have a good time.

Instructor Dan Campbell. Retired Sheriffs Deputy: Over here we take a glance at the high school students at the crime scene. The first one is a murder and here we see the students actually taking part in the activities that law enforcement officers would perform at a real crime scene. They’re talking over on how they want to examine this crime scene. Also here you can notice that the various pieces of evidence have already been identified with the little yellow markers and what evidence you are going to focus in on.

Instructor Dan Campbell. Crime Recreation Scene 2 -Driving under the Influence: The high school students today get very excited when they actually dig into reality and perform these activities and get a chance to perform what officers do and realize that crime scene investigation is a very, very thorough activity. This is our second crime scene, the hit and run. Here we notice that the students are examining the car and the students are looking around. It’s very important that people investigating crime scenes take into account the whole area and the proximity to the crime scene to make sure they don’t miss any evidence that might be there.

Well that wraps it up here today and our crime scene investigation involving our local high school students. If you’re interested in further information concerning the programs at SBBCollege you can lookup SBBCollege.edu or contact one of our admission reps at our local campuses and they can offer further information to you on the other programs that we offer at our school. Thank you and have a good day.

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My name is Karina. I’m graduating from the Bachelor’s Healthcare Administration program. I love getting to know people and being able to understand people and putting myself on their level. I love to treat people the way I would love to be treated, in regards to their care, in regards to having empathy for them and having that connection to somebody. I see a lot of patients that have cancer and I have that emotional connection with them. It’s something that I would never really have thought I would have with somebody. So that’s kind of what I love about it, you know, being able to put myself in their shoes and give somebody that kind of care.

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Coming back to college at my age – it’s not an easy thing to do, you know. Fighting cancer was one thing – it’s terrifying to come back to college at almost forty. I’m Alissa Turner and I’m a graduate of Santa Barbara Business College. I got my associate of science degree and I went for the medical assisting program. I stopped working retail because I was diagnosed with cancer and while I was working I was doing treatments where I missed some work, had several surgeries and at that time, I was let go because I didn’t have any more time off. And at that time when I was off, somebody at the cancer center had told me about coming and getting my medical degree so I could start medical assisting. They told me they had gone to Santa Barbara Business College. At that time I thought I would give it a chance and come in and talk to somebody and before I knew it I was signing papers and starting to get my degree.

When I first came to Santa Barbara Business College I was scared to death. I was almost forty but everybody was so nice, so understanding. They didn’t treat me like I was any different than anybody else walking in through the doors. I was really comfortable. I don’t think I met one staff member that I didn’t get along with or didn’t help me make it through. Every class, I have an amazing feeling towards all those staff members that help students. I’ve seen it time and time again where some people feel lost. They feel like they’re not a part of something and especially in a bigger college, that I tried going to, you almost seem like you’re a number. Here everybody knew your name. Everybody knew who you were. They made sure that you were on the right track, that whatever help that you needed, they were going to get it for you and talk to the right person. That is the difference that they make and the impact that they make on every student that comes through these doors.

I work for a doctor who has a comprehensive blood and cancer center and I basically get a chance to meet all the patients that come through. I get to see them step by step through the time that they spend trying to get better and kick cancer, so it’s very emotional but it’s also very enlightening. It never lets me forget where I came from and how I started my journey. I’m a survivor – I’m a five year survivor. I want to thank the college. I want to thank the staff. I want to thank everybody that has made the opportunity for me to be able to go on and helped me realize dreams can come true and life can start over for anybody going through anything. It’s never too late. You’re never too old and there’s never an opportunity that you can’t take by just stepping through the doors somewhere and talking to somebody.