Nursing

Students begin learning the roles of the Associate Degree Nurse as a provider and manager of care and a member within the discipline of nursing. Students develop introductory knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal and psychomotor skills to provide care to patients with actual or possible health problems who are in a state of wellness. The organizing curricular concepts of Person, Health, Environment, and Nursing and their interrelationships are introduced. Students learn to respect the patient and family as central members of the health care team and develop commitment to advocacy, and provision of safe, high quality, holistic, and evidenced-based practice. Nursing care content includes the nursing process, health promotion, safe medication administration, communication/documentation, teamwork/interdisciplinary collaboration, effective utilization of resources, and patient/family education. Students learn to apply a systematic approach to health assessment. Additional nursing concepts that are integral to the nursing role such as professionalism, leadership, systems-based practice, informatics and technology, and quality improvement are presented. Students are introduced to nursing research and conduct an article critique. Students participate in a Learning Lab group project and poster presentation. The Learning Laboratory provides opportunities to practice nursing skills in simulated activities. Clinical Learning provides experiences to practice nursing by caring for well patients or patients with common basic health problems in protected favorable environments such as nursing homes, rehabilitation and transitional care.

Students develop competence to provide and manage care as a member within the discipline of nursing for patients and their families with common health problems in protected, favorable environments. The delivery of patient centered care across the life span is emphasized with a special focus on adults, children in childbearing and childrearing families, and psychiatric/mental health care settings. Nursing knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal, and psychomotor competencies are further developed. Nursing content establishes the relationship between common health problems and their contributing factors; pathophysiology; assessments/diagnostic and lab testing; evidenced based practice and collaborative care. The nursing concepts of safety/prevention of injury, systems-based practice, leadership, professionalism, and ethical decision making are further explored in theory and developed in practice within the legal, political, regulatory and economic context of health care. Students further their understanding of nursing research by reviewing nursing literature and writing a research paper. Students participate in a group Community Health Project and poster presentation. The Learning Laboratory provides opportunities to practice more complex nursing skills in simulated activities. Clinical Learning provides experiences to practice nursing care in perinatal/pediatric or psychiatric/mental health, and adult health acute care settings.

Students develop competence to provide and manage care as a member within the discipline of nursing for patients and their families with common health problems and in favorable environments. The delivery of patient centered care across the life span is emphasized with a special focus on adults, children in childbearing and childrearing families, and psychiatric/mental health care settings. Nursing knowledge, attitudes, as well as interpersonal, and psychomotor competencies are further developed. Nursing content establishes the relationship between common health problems and their contributing factors; pathophysiology; assessments/diagnostic and lab testing; evidenced based practice and collaborative care. The nursing concepts of safety/prevention of injury, systems-based practice, leadership, professionalism, and ethical decision making are further explored in theory and developed and applied in practice within the legal, political, regulatory and economic context of health care. Students utilize nursing research to create a Proposal Paper exploring divergent perspectives on a contemporary issue or trend that impacts nursing practice. Students participate in the Cooperative Learning Lab group presentation. The Learning Laboratory provides opportunities to practice more complex nursing skills in simulated activities. Clinical Learning provides experiences to practice nursing care in perinatal/pediatric or psychiatric/mental health, and adult health acute care settings.