The Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program is a five-semester program whose mission is preparing professional nurses (RN’s) to address health care needs of the community in both acute and long-term care settings where policies and procedures are specified. Critical thinking, the nursing process, communication, safety, client education, ethical-legal issues, the health-illness continuum, and pharmacology are core themes used to develop content within the curriculum. The ADN curriculum incorporates general education courses along with nursing courses. The nursing courses include classroom instruction with guided clinical experiences in varied health care agencies.
The Practical Nursing (PN) program is a three-semester program whose mission is to prepare nurses (LPN’s) to meet basic health care needs in structured settings of acute and long-term care where policies and procedures are specified and carried out under the direction of a licensed professional nurse or other licensed healthcare provider. Critical thinking, the nursing process, communication, safety, client education, ethical-legal issues, the health-illness continuum and pharmacology are core themes used to develop content within the curriculum.
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