(A45110)
The Associate Degree Nursing curriculum provides knowledge, skills, and strategies to integrate safety and quality into nursing care, to practice in a dynamic environment, and to meet individual needs which impact health, quality of life, and achievement of potential.
Course work includes and builds upon the domains of healthcare, nursing practice, and the holistic individual. Content emphasizes the nurse as a member of the interdisciplinary team providing safe, individualized care while employing evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics.
Graduates of this program are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN). Employment opportunities are vast within the global health care system and may include positions within acute, chronic, extended, industrial, and community health care facilities.
LPN to RN Pathway: In the third semester (summer), LPN students complete NUR 214 (Nursing Transitions Concepts) course to assist in transitioning to the RN scope of practice. Contingent upon the student’s unencumbered practical nursing license, and being admitted into the LPN to RN transition program, credit will be given for NUR 111 (Intro to Health Concepts), NUR 112 (Health-Illness Concepts), NUR 113 (Family Health Concepts), and NUR 114 (Holistic Health Concepts).
Nursing Technical Standards
Curriculum Flow Chart