Associate Of Science in Nursing

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standard and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education ad a career in nursing; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency- based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills. The purpose of this program is to prepare students for employment as Registered Nurses.

This Associate of Science in nursing degree in the Nursing program is committed to becoming a program of excellence within the State of Florida. Students are provided a foundation of theoretical instruction complemented with clinical experience in a variety of healthcare settings to provide a broad, holistic, and reality-based understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a professional nurse.

Students will participate in planned clinical and laboratory experiences that will compliment classroom learning and will stress health promotion as well as disease processes. Upon the completion of the program, students will be able to take the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX RN) and to begin a professional nursing career.

The profession of Nursing is a nurturing, relationship-oriented discipline in which the importance of perception and meaning in contexts of diversity, culture, change and quality of the influence the delivery of care to focal systems, the development of professional ethics and educational methods.