Overview
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 that impact health, quality of life, and achievement of potential.
What You'll Learn
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.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of this program are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN). Employment opportunities are vast within the global healthcare system and may include positions within acute, chronic, extended, industrial, and community healthcare facilities.
Only letter grades of โCโ or higher in non-nursing courses and nursing (NUR) courses with a grade of โBโ or higher will count toward completion of the Associate Degree Nursing curriculum.
Major Core Courses
- Intro. to Health Concepts
- Health-Illness Concepts
- Family Health Concepts
- Holistic Health Concepts or *Nursing Transition Concepts
- Health Care Concepts
- Health System Concepts
- Complex Health Concepts
General Education Courses
- General, Organic & Biochemistry
- General, Organic & Biochemistry (Lab)
- Writing and Inquiry
- Writing/Research in Disciplines or Professional Research & Reporting
- Critical Thinking or Philosophical Issues or Introduction to Ethics
- General Psychology
Other Major Courses
- Anatomy and Physiology I
- Anatomy and Physiology II
- Precalculus Algebra
- Developmental Psychology
Other Required Courses
- Professional Transition
* For Transition Students
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