Nursing - Upper Division
The upper-division Nursing (NURS) program is designed for registered nurses who want to continue their education by earning the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). The program focuses on the acquisition of knowledge and skills that enable the nurse to assist individuals, families, and communities to achieve and maintain optimum health. Emphasis is on the expansion of function to include the entire wellness-to-illness continuum throughout the life cycle within various community settings. The program encourages self-directed learning, critical thinking and independent action. It promotes professional identity, awareness,and accountability and provides a base for graduate work in education and clinical specialization. Issues in human diversity are integrated throughout the curriculum.
Purposes of the Program:
- Prepare professional nurse generalists.
- Provide varied experiences in general education through General Studies and liberal arts and sciences.
- Advance the educational level of nurses to effect improvement in community health care.
- Encourage continuing professional and personal growth.
- Provide a foundation for graduate study.
Objectives:
Richard Stockton College Nursing Program objectives are in accordance with those of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the New Jersey Board of Nursing in that it is designed to produce a nurse generalist who is able to:
- Utilize system theory and related nursing models when making decisions about professional nursing practice.
- Synthesize theoretical and empirical knowledge from the physical and behavioral sciences and humanities with nursing theory and practice.
- Utilize the nursing process and critical thinking to assess health status and health potential; plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for individuals, families and communities.
- Perform and monitor therapeutic nursing interventions that are evidence based.
- Accept responsibility and accountability within an ethical framework for nursing interventions and outcomes.
- Evaluate research for its applicability in defining and extending nursing practice.
- Utilize leadership skills through interaction with consumers and providers in meeting health needs and nursing goals.
- Collaborate on the interdisciplinary health team to identify and effect needed change which will improve care delivery within specific health care systems.
- Implement the major roles of the professional nurse: carer, educator, advocate and activist.
- Incorporate concepts of human diversity when implementing and evaluating therapeutic nursing interventions.
Information about the Program
Nursing Program Coordinator
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
PO Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240-0195
Phone: 609-652-4501
Dean of Enrollment Management
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
PO Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240-0195
Phone: (609) 652-4261
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