Associate Degree Nursing - Associate in Applied Science

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1 TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS A Associate Degree Nursing - Associate in Applied Science CONCENTRATION 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 which impact 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. Upon Completion of this Concentration, graduates will be able 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. Student Learning Outcome- Upon completion of the program, students will: 1. Promote and enhance human flourishing by advocating for patients and families in ways that promote their selfdetermination, integrity, and ongoing growth as human beings. 2. Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs. 3. Make sound nursing judgments in practice, substantiated with evidence, that integrate nursing science in the provision of safe, quality care and that promote the health of patients within a family and community context. 4. Develop professional identity by implementing one's role as a nurse in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices, and an evolving identity as a nurse committed to evidence-based practice, caring, advocacy, and safe, quality care for diverse patients within a family and community context. 5. Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. 6. Maintain a spirit of inquiry that examines the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge the status quo, question underlying assumptions, and offer new insights to improve the quality of care for patients, families, and communities. 7. Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making. 8. Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. 9. Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. 10. Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. 102

2 Partnership: RIBN Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses - College of The Albemarle has a RIBN agreement with East Carolina University so that students may be concurrently admitted and enrolled to earn an Associate Degree in Nursing from COA and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from ECU. For more information please call , ext Associate Degree Nursing and Bachelor of Science Biblical Studies Articulation Agreement College of The Albemarle has an articulation agreement with Mid-Atlantic Christian University so that students may receive training in both Nursing and Biblical Studies. Students can earn an Associate Degree in Nursing from COA and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biblical Studies from MACU. For more information please call , ext College of The Albemarle's Associate Degree Nursing (including the L.P.N.-A.D.N. Option program) is accredited by: Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30326, (404) , A Associate Degree Nursing A.A.S. PSY 150 General Psychology BIO 168 Anatomy and Physiology I NUR 111 Introduction to Health CIS 111 Basic PC Literacy (or CIS 110) ACA 111 College Student Success or ACA 122 College Transfer Success Pre-Requisites: ENG 080 and RED 080, or ENG 085, or DRE 097, or appropriate placement.. Pre-Requisites: One unit of HS Biology or BIO 090 or higher; one unit of HS chemistry or CHM 090; and Appropriate placement or ENG 090 and RED 090 and DMA , or ENG 095 and DMA , or DRE 098 and DMA Pre-Requisites: Admission to A.D.N. Co-Requisites: BIO 168, PSY 150, CIS 111, ACA 111 or ACA TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS NUR 112 Health-Illness Co-Requisites: BIO 169, PSY 241, NUR 113, NUR 212AB, BIO 168, PSY 150, CIS NUR 113 Family Health 111, ACA 111 or ACA 122 Co-Requisites: BIO 169, PSY 241, NUR 112, NUR 212AB NUR 212AB Health System Co-Requisites: NUR 112, NUR 113, BIO 169, PSY PSY 241 Developmental Psychology Pre-Requisites: PSY 150 BIO 169 Anatomy and Physiology II Pre-Requisites: BIO TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS Continued on next page

3 Second Year ENG 111 Writing and Inquiry NUR 114 Holistic Health NUR 211 Health Care NUR 212BB Health System Pre-Requisites: ENG 090 and RED 090, or ENG 095, or DRE 098, or appropriate placement., NUR 112, NUR 113 Co-Requisites: ENG111, NUR 211, NUR 212BB, NUR 112, NUR 113 Co-Requisites: ENG111, NUR 114, NUR 212BB, NUR 212AB Co-Requisites: NUR 114, NUR 211, ENG TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS Second Year ENG 112 Writing/Research in the Disciplines OR ENG 113 Literature Based Research OR ENG 114 Professional Research and Reporting (ENG 112 recommended) *Humanities/Fine Arts Elective (Choose 3 semester credit hours of approved courses from the CAA course List *cannot be a COM prefix or a foreign language) (PHI 240 recommended) *Communication Elective (*COM 231 Recommended) NUR 213 Complex Health Pre-Requisites: ENG 111 (Applies to all courses listed) Co-Requisites: Take all: NUR 112, NUR 113, NUR 114, NUR 211, NUR 212; Humanities Elective, COM Elective, ENG 112, 113, or TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS REQUIRED FOR ASSOCIATE DEGREE

4 A L.P.N. A.D.N. Option A.A.S. This option is for currently Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) to advance to an Associate Degree in Nursing. PSY 150 General Psychology BIO 168 Anatomy and Physiology I NUR 111 Introduction to Health CIS 111 Basic PC Literacy (or CIS 110) ACA 111 College Student Success or ACA 122 College Transfer Success Pre-Requisites: ENG 080 and RED 080, or ENG 085, or DRE 097, or appropriate placement. Pre-Requisites: One unit of HS Biology or BIO 090 or higher; one unit of HS chemistry or CHM 090; and Appropriate placement or ENG 090 and RED 090 and DMA , or ENG 095 and DMA , or DRE 098 and DMA Pre-Requisites: LPN-A.D.N. Option - Upon completion of NUR 113 and 212, credit will be granted by valuation for 8 semester hours for NUR TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS NUR 112 Health-Illness NUR 113 Family Health NUR 212AB Health System PSY 241 Developmental Psychology BIO 169 Anatomy and Physiology II Co-Requisites: BIO 169, PSY 241, NUR 113, NUR 212AB Co-Requisites: BIO 169, PSY 241, NUR 112, NUR 212AB Co-Requisites: NUR 112, NUR 113, BIO 169, PSY Pre-Requisites: PSY 150 Pre-Requisites: BIO Continued on next page 105

5 Second Year ENG 111 Writing and Inquiry Pre-Requisites: ENG 090 and RED 090, or ENG 095, or DRE 098, or appropriate placement. NUR 114 Holistic Health, NUR 112, NUR 113 Co-Requisites: ENG111, NUR 211, NUR 212BB NUR 211 Health Care, NUR 112, NUR 113 Co-Requisites: ENG111, NUR 114, NUR 212BB NUR 212BB Health System, NUR 212AB Co-Requisites: NUR 114, NUR 211, ENG TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS Second Year ENG 112 Writing/Research in the Disciplines OR ENG 113 Literature Based Research OR ENG 114 Professional Research and Reporting (ENG 112 recommended) *Humanities/Fine Arts Elective (Choose 3 semester credit hours of approved courses from the CAA course List *cannot be a COM prefix or a foreign language) (PHI 240 recommended) *Communication Elective (*COM 120 Recommended) NUR 213 Complex Health Pre-Requisites: ENG 111 (Applies to all courses listed) Co-Requisites: Take all: NUR 112, NUR 113, NUR 114, NUR 211, NUR 212; Humanities Elective, COM Elective, ENG 112, 113, or TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS REQUIRED FOR ASSOCIATE DEGREE