Nursing: Associate Degree Nursing

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Curriculum Description

The Associate Degree Nursing curriculum provides students with opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, and strategies to integrate safety and quality into nursing care, to practice in a dynamic environment, and to assist individuals in making informed decisions that impact their 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.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the SCC ADN Program will:

• Practice professional nursing behaviors incorporating personal responsibility and accountability for continued competence.
• Communicate professionally and effectively with individuals, significant support person(s), and members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Integrate knowledge of the holistic needs of the individual to provide an individual centered assessment.
• Incorporate informatics to formulate evidence-based clinical judgments and management decisions.
• Implement caring interventions incorporating documented best practices for individuals in diverse settings.
• Develop a teaching plan for individuals, and/or the nursing team, incorporating teaching and learning principles.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to advocate for positive individual and organizational outcomes.
• Manage healthcare for the individual using cost effective nursing strategies, quality improvement processes, and current technologies.

Employment 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 health care system and may include positions within acute, chronic, extended, industrial, and community health care facilities.

Contact

Dr. Yvonne Johnson
Associate Dean for Health Sciences
johnsony@surry.edu
(336) 386-3368

Financial aid is available to eligible students: https://surry.edu/paying-for-college/financial-aid/

Contact: financialaid@surry.edu or (336) 386-3264 for more information.

Each nursing (NUR) course must be successfully completed in order to progress to subsequent nursing courses.

A nursing student prohibited from participating in a clinical agency will be dismissed from the nursing program due to their inability to progress.

Programs

• Associate Degree Nursing Career and College Promise Certificate (P1032C)

• Associate Degree Nursing (A45110)

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