Associate Degree Nursing
Division of Health Sciences > Programs > ADN
Program Overview
Started in 1983, the Associate Degree Nursing Program has graduate
d many successful RN´s who provide safe, quality, and professional care to our community´s residents. The program provides strong clinical experiences as well as challenging didactic class work. Our program prepares graduates to assume the roles of provider of care, manager of care, and member within the discipline of nursing according to the guidelines of the scope of practice for the Registered Nurse in North Carolina. Within these roles are core competencies that are essential to the work of the entry-level nurse. The faculty has adopted the core competencies recommended by the National League for Nursing which include professional behavior, communication, assessment, clinical decision-making, caring interventions, teaching and learning, collaboration, and managing care. The faculty also strives to incorporate the Institute of Medicine´s (Healthy Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality, 2003) recommendations of patient centered care, work in interdisciplinary teams, employment of evidence-based practice, application of quality improvement, and the utilization of informatics into the curriculum.
Courses are taught by a team of instructors using a variety of teaching strategies in order to meet the learning needs of all our students. Classes are often designed with small group work, hands on practice, and discussion groups. All nursing courses are blackboard enhanced with web-enhanced components. In the fall of 2006 VGCC opened a state-of-the-art Simulation Center for the Health Sciences department. The faculty believes that simulation is an excellent way to present patient care learning opportunities in a realistic clinical setting. It provides the student with the chance to "think on their feet" in a non-stressful environment thus developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The program is an integrated program with each semester building on the previous in which students are expected to apply previously learned material culminating with the fifth semester which includes an eight week preceptorship and an eight week leadership clinical opportunity. At the conclusion of the five semesters, students are eligible to apply to take the NCLEX-RN.
For more information:Erica Jastrow,Interim Director for Nursing
d many successful RN´s who provide safe, quality, and professional care to our community´s residents. The program provides strong clinical experiences as well as challenging didactic class work. Our program prepares graduates to assume the roles of provider of care, manager of care, and member within the discipline of nursing according to the guidelines of the scope of practice for the Registered Nurse in North Carolina. Within these roles are core competencies that are essential to the work of the entry-level nurse. The faculty has adopted the core competencies recommended by the National League for Nursing which include professional behavior, communication, assessment, clinical decision-making, caring interventions, teaching and learning, collaboration, and managing care. The faculty also strives to incorporate the Institute of Medicine´s (Healthy Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality, 2003) recommendations of patient centered care, work in interdisciplinary teams, employment of evidence-based practice, application of quality improvement, and the utilization of informatics into the curriculum.Courses are taught by a team of instructors using a variety of teaching strategies in order to meet the learning needs of all our students. Classes are often designed with small group work, hands on practice, and discussion groups. All nursing courses are blackboard enhanced with web-enhanced components. In the fall of 2006 VGCC opened a state-of-the-art Simulation Center for the Health Sciences department. The faculty believes that simulation is an excellent way to present patient care learning opportunities in a realistic clinical setting. It provides the student with the chance to "think on their feet" in a non-stressful environment thus developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The program is an integrated program with each semester building on the previous in which students are expected to apply previously learned material culminating with the fifth semester which includes an eight week preceptorship and an eight week leadership clinical opportunity. At the conclusion of the five semesters, students are eligible to apply to take the NCLEX-RN.
For more information:Erica Jastrow,Interim Director for Nursing
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