Everett Community College (Nursing Department)

The Nursing Program offers a career mobility approach to nursing education by providing a course of study that prepares students for licensure as Registered Nurses. Students have the option of making application and sitting for the LPN exam after four quarters of study. In addition, currently licensed LPNs can be accepted as ‘advanced placement’ students in a program of study that will lead to their eventual ability to be licensed as RNs.

The Nursing Curriculum includes a strong foundation in communication, biological and social sciences, Nursing Studentgeneral education and nursing courses. Students integrate theory and practice throughout the Nursing Program. Application occurs in campus laboratories, classroom settings, acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, and community health care settings.

The Profession of Nursing requires practice that is based on nursing as an art and a science. Thus your nursing education at Everett Community College involves a high level of both academic and interpersonal qualities. Compassion, caring, critical thinking and collaboration, communication, cognitive ability, and professional and ethic conduct are requisite to a successful nursing education and career.

The Nursing Faculty are committed to the success of Everett’s Nursing Students. We work diligently to view each student as an individual who is capable to attaining the high standards of nursing. We strive to assist students to attain their goals, and we endeavor to model the personal and professional characteristics which we seek to develop in our students.

NURSING DEPARTMENT PHILOSOPHY

The nursing program operates within the framework of Everett Community College mission and objectives. As an integral part of the college, the faculty of the Department of Nursing assume responsibility for the encouragement and facilitation of life-long learning through education for the diverse people of the community.

Learning is active, continuous, and evidenced by changes in behavior. It is an interactive process between students and faculty, where both share the responsibility for creating an educational climate. Individuals are valued for the unique contribution they bring to the learning situation. Students are capable of self-direction and accountable for their own performance. Critical thinking is essential as a tool of inquiry and as such is a valuable resource in life. Faculty endeavor to model the personal and professional characteristics they seek to develop in the student.

Human beings are unique and dynamic, functioning in an integrated way to meet perceived needs. People interact within the framework of family, community, culture, growing and developing as individuals within ever changing social systems that influence their values and patterns of behavior. Health is a state of being that people define in relation to their own values. Health is based on internal and external variables: genetic, developmental, environmental, social, cultural, economic, psychological, intellectual and spiritual.

Nursing is a dynamic, interactive process wherein each individual is viewed holistically. A central theme of nursing is caring. Respect for the right of the individual to make personal health choices is implicit. Nursing includes purposeful interventions based on specialized skills drawn from theories and knowledge from various disciplines.

We believe that there are commonalties upon which all nursing education is based. Scientific knowledge, technological, and societal changes continually affect nursing practice and therefore, nursing education is oriented to the future. Nursing education emphasizes professionalism, the continual personal and professional development of the nurse, and the evolution of a nurse self-concept.

Articulation between levels of nursing is provided throughout the curriculum. Nurses are prepared to practice at levels which are differentiated by the complexity and breadth of the affective, cognitive and psychomotor skills. Practical and Associate Degree nursing graduates are nursing generalists. These nurses practice collaboratively with members of the health care team as providers of care, communicators, advocates and teachers. The nurse is accountable to the consumer for the care administered.

Practical nurses provide standardized care under the direct supervision of the registered nurse and/or other health care practitioners. As members of the health care system, they seek out and take advantage of opportunities for their own continuing education.

Associate Degree nurses, while concerned with standardized care, individualize and manage care for groups of clients making practice decisions using a broad and complex base of knowledge and skills. Each nurse bears the responsibility to strengthen nursing practice through self-development and the use of resources for continued learning.

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