Port St. Lucie Magazine

Medical first

Treasure Coast High School’s LPN students are recognizable by their professional uniforms — and their ability to pronounce the word sphygmomanometer [blood pressure monitor].
RUSTY DURHAM

High school adds innovative nursing certification program

BY ELLEN GILLETTE

This year’s homecoming at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie was especially significant: It was the 20th anniversary of the Titans.

However, not everyone on campus noticed. 

Misha Fenelus is a junior at TCHS and a second-year student in the school’s inaugural licensed practical nurse [LPN] program — the first of its kind in Florida. “I didn’t know homecoming was coming up, because I was studying so much,” she said. “I can’t let my other classes get behind.”