Wilmington University (Division of Nursing and Allied Health)
Spring is just around the corner – even if it didn’t feel like it this morning when you went outside! Along with spring comes Easter, Passover, and most importantly, spring break! I know that, for most of you, spring break is just a momentary breather in a very hectic schedule, but I want to encourage you to find a little time for yourself sometime this spring.
As nurses, we talk the good talk, but we don’t always walk the walk. How many of us really watch our nutritional intake and exercise enough? Do we really deal appropriately with stress? How many of you have spent some quiet time alone recently? How can we honestly encourage our clients to embrace a healthy lifestyle when we don’t do so ourselves?
This spring, let’s decide to really become role models for the healthy lifestyle. We don’t have to become world class athletes to do this but we do have to kick the exercise up a little and cut back a little on the calories. Take a walk, play an easy game of tennis, plant some flowers, read a good book, drink eight glasses of water every day, enjoy some fresh asparagus, relax and meditate. People listen to nurses and feel comfortable asking us questions. They also observe what we do and how we do it. If each one of us embraces a healthy lifestyle, there is no telling how many people we might encourage to do the same – just by our own example!
COLLEGE MISSION
Wilmington College is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. As an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher education to students of varying ages, interests, and aspirations.
The college provides a range of exemplary career-oriented undergraduate and graduate degree programs for a growing and diverse student population. It delivers these programs at locations and times convenient to students and at an affordable price. A highly qualified full-time faculty works closely with part-time faculty drawn from the workplace to ensure that the college’s programs prepare students to begin or continue their career, improve their competitiveness in the job market, and engage in lifelong learning.
BSN PROGRAM UPDATE
The BSN Program has had a lot of significant changes this year! The new Fusion Program was implemented in January, with an initial cohort of 14 brave students. This program is a bit more accelerated than the existing, or “traditional” BSN program. Students complete three courses a semester instead of two, and only attend class one night per week. All of the courses in the Fusion Program are Hybrid courses, which means that half of the work is completed in the classroom through face to face encounters, and the other half is completed in some fashion outside of the classroom (online, clinical, etc).
There is a new “Pre-RN” Program that has been designed to offer some courses to those students attending an associate degree program at a community college who may be in a “holding pattern” waiting for a clinical spot. This is an exciting venture for the Nursing Division and for those students who may actually get a head start on the requirements for a BSN.
Beginning in September, 2006, you will notice course number and title changes for all of the courses in the BSN curriculum. Through development and implementation of the BSN Fusion Program, the BSN core curriculum was altered slightly and updated. All of the courses in the Fusion Program are offered in 7-week or semester hybrid courses. In order to serve our BSN students more effectively and efficiently, the faculty has unanimously decided to “merge” the existing curriculum with the Fusion curriculum, offering only one curriculum in two different formats (traditional and hybrid). This will allow students more options for completing required course work, and will create a more relevant curriculum.
School name: Wilmington University (Division of Nursing and Allied Health)
Address: 320 N. DuPont Highway
Zip & city: DE 19720 New Castle
Phone: (302) 328-9401
Web: http://www.wilmu.edu/nursing/
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