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Nursing
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This program provides the education necessary for becoming a
registered professional nurse. It prepares the student to take
the NCLEX examination (state board licensure test) for RN.
Philosophy
The goal of the Bachelor of Science degree in nursing program is
to provide opportunities for qualified students to acquire the
knowledge necessary to provide nursing care, which promotes
adaptation of the person, family, and community. This knowledge
is acquired within a liberal arts experience, which emphasizes
honesty, integrity, civility, and a strong sense of personal
responsibility. Professional preparation as a nurse includes
promotion of lifelong learning, social responsibility, and
service.
The faculty believes persons are unique, holistic, and
developing beings with the process and capacity for thinking,
feeling, reflecting and choosing. Persons respond to and act
upon the constantly changing environment, which is everything
that is within and around them. To adapt to this changing
environment, people use coping processes, which are both innate
and learned. Adaptation occurs as adaptive responses promote
integrity and wholeness.
Health is a state and a process of being and becoming an
integrated and whole person. Health is a continuum ranging from
peak wellness to death. The adaptation level is that point where
the person is able to respond positively. A whole person is one
with the highest possible fulfillment of human potential.
Nursing assists persons, families, and communities to examine
life and environmental patterns, attach personal meaning to
these patterns and choose adaptation. Nursing acts to enhance
interaction with the environment by promoting meaningful life
experiences, growth, and adaptation. The profession of nursing
is an integrated part of a system for health care delivery and
shares responsibility for working collaboratively with other
health care practitioners.
Nursing education is a process, which enables the learner to
synthesize a body of knowledge obtained through courses in
nursing, liberal arts, humanities, and the sciences. Because
nursing is dynamic, the education is foundational for
professional growth through nursing research and continuing
education.
The faculty believe that the learner is best able to reach
individual potential in an environment that is nurturing and
promotes inquiry, dialogue, curiosity, creativity, the ethical
ideal, and assertiveness. The learner brings an attitude of
commitment and motivation for achievement. The role of the
learner is to share in the responsibility of the
teaching-learning process.
The teacher interacts with students as persons of worth,
dignity, intelligence, and high scholarly standards. The
teacher's role is to provide the climate, structure, and
dialogue that promote discovery of patterns and paradigms for
practice. The teacher raises questions that require reading,
observation, analysis, and reflection upon patient care. The
teacher nurtures the learner, is available for dialogue, and
promotes the use of research and critical thinking in the
delivery of nursing care.
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skills and abilities do I need to excel in this degree? |
| The successful RN student needs a solid grounding in the
biological sciences. The willingness and ability to develop and
participate in therapeutic relationships is fostered. The
student moves from acquiring the knowledge base needed to
applying that knowledge to design and implement appropriate
nursing care and interventions for the specific client. |
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What skills can I expect to develop through this degree? |
| The student can expect to develop the basic clinical and
communication skills needed to practice nursing. Additionally,
each student will become proficient in applying basic biological
science, health, and pathophysiologic knowledge to specific
client situations and needs. |
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What I will learn |
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates will demonstrate professional
nursing leadership with technical proficiency in the care of clients,
families, and communities and in the management of physical, fiscal, and
human resources. Graduates will apply critical thinking and
problem-solving to provide nursing care that promotes holism and
adaptation by discovering research questions, critically analyzing
research, and applying research to practice. Graduates will practice the
principles of communication, client education, and client advocacy.
Graduates will commit to individual and professional growth as lifelong
learners through continuing education, reading refereed professional
journals, and participating in shaping the health-care delivery system.
Graduates will provide, delegate, and/or supervise nursing care based on
current knowledge, theory, and research to promote holism and adaptation
as evidenced by the ability to assess and diagnose the health status of
diverse individuals, families, and communities and by the ability to
plan, implement, and evaluate the care for diverse individuals,
families, and communities. Graduates will evaluate career choices within
the nursing profession based on emerging skills and personal strengths
and abilities. Graduates will display professional behavior based on
standards of practice and professional codes of ethics. Graduates will
demonstrate collaboration with other health-care providers to promote
the full human potential. |
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What opportunities are there for internships or other hands-on
learning experiences? |
| Each student will participate in clinical courses each
semester of the junior and senior year. The final semester of
the senior year includes a clinical practicum that consists of
225 hours the student spends in the partnership practice of
nursing with a clinical preceptor in a health care facility. |
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What are some possible entry-level careers with a degree in this
field? |
| The student graduating from this program will be eligible to
take the NCLEX examination. This program prepares the new nurse
to practice in acute health care delivery at the entry level. |
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What are some CMU graduates with this degree doing? |
| Graduates of CMU nursing are actively involved in Acute care
nursing, Intensive care nursing, Home and Public health nursing,
Psychiatric nursing, Labor and Delivery/Maternal-Child health
nursing, graduate school, administrative positions, and nursing
education. |
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Other items to note |
This program strives to prepare students to achieve a 100% pass
rate per class for the NCLEX. We have a record of 100% job
placement for students who have successfully passed the NCLEX
and desire to work.
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