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Nursing Associate Degree at Bryant and Stratton College Ohio

Program: 369 Semesters: 5m Total Credit Hours: 72

Description
The mission of the Nursing Program is to provide quality nursing education in North Central Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin and to facilitate the provision of exceptional healthcare in the regions. The Nursing Program emphasizes classroom, laboratory, and clinical experiences that prepare students for both the world of work and for life-long learning. Computer aided instruction, telecommunications technology, clinical simulation and other technical learning strategies are seen as integral components of the delivery methods needed to serve the educational needs of students in the 21st century.

The purpose of the Nursing Program is to prepare Nursing Program graduates to function in professional registered nursing roles. The program provides a foundation of learning which promotes integration of clinical decision making processes into the provision of nursing care for meeting the health/illness needs of patients across the life span. The three roles of the associate degree nurse (Provider of Care, Manager of Care, and Member of the Discipline of Nursing) describe nursing practice and role expectations of the entry level registered nurse. The core components of those roles, as established by the National League for Nursing (NLN, 2000) are as follows: professional behaviors, communication, assessment, clinical decision making, caring interventions, teaching and learning, collaboration, and managing care. The organizing framework provides direction for the selection and ordering of learning experiences to achieve program outcomes.

Are you thinking about a career in nursing? Professional nurses are knowledge brokers of the population health issues of today and leaders in the health care system. Nurses’ practice involves working with communities, families and individuals across the lifespan in the areas of health promotion, illness prevention as well as curative, rehabilitative and palliative care. A baccalaureate degree in nursing prepares you for a dynamic career with myriad opportunities. Is your desire to work with children? Choose pediatric nursing in a hospital or childcare environment. If a fast-paced environment is what drives you, join the emergency unit of a hospital. Do you want to work with some of the pressing health concerns of today? Join a chronic disease management team or become a community health nurse. What about research? Today’s health-care field is multidimensional with challenges enough for a lifetime.

The Faculty of Nursing offers a superior course of study where you will learn to integrate theory with clinical practice based upon cutting-edge research and approaches to learning. Our programs provide a strong knowledge base for practice and superior preparation for graduate education. You will learn in an environment that recognizes your life experience and fosters collegial and inter-professional relationships. Active learning is facilitated in small clinical groups, simulated clinical laboratories, peer groups, as well as classroom and technology-assisted environments. You will be challenged to develop critical thinking, problem-solving skills and inquiry-based approaches to apply in clinical practice.

Graduates of this program are distinguished by a broad background in the humanities and sciences. They have strong communication, assessment, and leadership skills and possess a clearly defined philosophical and conceptual basis for practice.

Program Objectives

Upon completion of the program, students will possess the knowledge, skills and values required to practice as a professional nurse in caring for the sick, promoting health, and providing population based care across all environments. They will also be prepared for graduate education.

Students will:
Use theory and research-based knowledge in providing professional nursing care to individuals, groups, and populations.

Work collaboratively with the patient and interdisciplinary healthcare team.

Design, manage, and coordinate outcome based-healthcare for individuals, groups, and populations.

Practice as a member of the profession of nursing by embracing lifelong learning, incorporating professionalism into practice, and identifying with the values of the profession of nursing.

Demonstrate the ability to utilize critical-thinking, communication, assessment, and technical skills in providing professional nursing care.

Be prepared to pursue graduate studies in nursing.