Nursing
Major
Today's nurses are important members of the professional health care team dedicated to promoting, maintaining, and restoring health. Nurses combine scientific knowledge, skillful hands-on care, and a concern for people to meet individual, family, and community health care needs. Nurses who hold baccalaureate degrees often assume positions of greater responsibility and leadership. Registered nurses are needed in health care settings such as: schools, industry, community health centers, hospitals, home health care, private practice, and the military services.
- The College of Nursing and Health is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and is also approved by the Ohio Board of Nursing.
- Clinical experiences are available in a variety of settings, including day care centers, schools, hospitals, senior citizens' centers, and industry.
- Students gain practical, hands-on simulated clinical experience in the state-of-the-art College of Nursing and Health Learning Laboratory.
- Wright State offers an Internet-based R.N. to B.S.N. completion program for students who have an associate degree in nursing.
- Upon completion of the B.S.N. degree, students are eligible to write the State Board (NCLEX) examination.
- The College of Nursing and Health strongly recommends that students complete at least three units of high school science, including chemistry.
- Admission to the College of Nursing and Health is competitive. Complete admission requirements are provided in the undergraduate catalog.
| Bachelor of Science in Nursing - Suggested Curriculum |
Freshman
·Comp I&II
·Statistifcal Concepts
·History Course
·Psychology I&II
·Organic Chemistry
·Microbiology
·General Education
·Elective
·Non-Western World Course
·Human Expression Course |
Sophomore·Human Anatomy I&II, ·Lifespan Developmental Psychology
·Abnormal Psychology
·Great Books
·Human Physiology I&II
·Nursing for Health & Wellness Lifestyle
·Intro to Prof. Nursing
·Intro to Nursing Informatics
·Human Diversity in Health Care
·Human Nutrition
·Health Assessment Across the Lifespan
·General Education
·Elective |
Junior
·Intro to Clinical Nursing
·Concepts to Altered Health States
·Foundations of Family and Group Nursing
·Pharmacology
·Adult Health/Illness
·Nursing Care of Aged
Aging Families
·Foundation of Nursing Research
·Nursing Care in Childbearing Families
·Legal and Ethical Foundations for Nursing Practice |
Senior
·Nursing in Mental Health Systems
·Contemporary Nursing Issues and Health Policy
·Nursing in Comm. Health Systems
·Nursing in Leadership & Mgt. in Health Care
·High Activity Nursing in Complex Health Systems
·Synthesis Practicum in Professional Nursing
·Nursing Elective
·General Education
·Electives |
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Fast Facts:
Average starting salaries for registered nurses is $33,103. (Source: Salary Survey Summer 2000 The National Association of Colleges and Employers)
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be more than a 20 percent increase in demand for registered nurses between 1998 and 2008. Personal healthcare and home healthcare will also be in high demand. |
