Program Overview
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Thank you for your interest in the Inver Hills-Century Colleges Associate Degree Nursing Program. The Nursing Program is jointly operated through a unique, cooperative arrangement between Inver Hills Community College and Century Community and Technical College. The colleges, separated by twenty miles in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, operate the jointly-sponsored Associate Degree Nursing Program. Both colleges are accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The Nursing Program is approved by the Minnesota Board of Nursing and accredited by the National League for Nursing. The National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission's address and phone number is: 350 Hudson St., New York, New York 10014, (212) 989-9393 Ext. 153.
Program Benefits
- One Nursing Program with the same curriculum based in two different colleges serving the St. Paul, Northeast and Northwest suburban and Western Wisconsin areas.
- Students attend their choice of campus.
- Innovative curriculum changes to reflect future practice for nurses.
- Emphasis on skills necessary for life long learning.
- Culturally diverse student population.
- Multiple clinical sites for student practice- hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home care, etc.
Program Values
- Educational Articulation
- Recruitment and Retention of Persons of Color
- Holistic Nursing
- Life Long Learning
Program Curriculum
Focus on:
- Diversity
- Holistic Philosophy
- Health, Healing and Holism
- Caring
- Complementary Nursing Interventions
- Gerontology
- Community Service Learning
- Medical Surgical Nursing
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Program Philosophy
Health -- Healing -- Holism
Nursing Theorists:
- Margaret Newman: Healing power within; health and disease an expression of life process -- manifestations of underlying pattern of interaction with environment; relationships are key to healing
- Barbara Dossey: Holism -- integrate whole independent of and greater than the sum of its parts; view everything as patterns and processes instead of seeing things as fragments of parts of the whole
- Jean Watson: Caring is cornerstone of holistic nursing; necessary to care for self before one can care for others
Program Framework
Roles
Critical Thinker, Holistic Caregiver, Teacher, Advocate, Leader/Manager, Life Long Learner, Interdisciplinary Collaborator
Threads
Life Cycle, Holistic Nursing Assessment, Communication, Nursing Interventions, Health Promotion, Ethics/Values, Critical Thinking, Intuitive Thinking
Levels of Prevention
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Program Outcomes for Students
Health
- Identifies and facilitates patterns of health and wellness for self and others
- Collaborates with clients to promote healthy behaviors
- Recognizes the effects of environment on disease and non-disease states
Nursing
- Demonstrates behavior which reflects ethical values and accountability
- Demonstrates caring, compassionate, respectful behavior
- Applies critical thinking skills in managing care of clients across the life span
- Collaborates with clients to promote healthy behaviors
- Demonstrates ability to use resources to problem solve
- Communicates effectively
- Demonstrates understanding of legal scope of nursing practice
- Demonstrates understanding of boundaries and the legal scope of professional practice
- Values and incorporates cultural sensitivity into practice
- Incorporates research-based nursing interventions
- Incorporates alternative nursing interventions
- Incorporates knowledge of the economics, social and political dynamics of health care delivery in professional nursing proactive
- Demonstrates a beginning level of supervision and delegation
- Teaches illness prevention, health promotion, and wellness, with a focus on the whole person
- Demonstrates an ability to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching
Nursing Education
- Establishes a foundation for life long learning
- Aspires to highest academic and professional potential
- Is accountable for own learning
This page last modified: 10/21/2008
