The goals of the baccalaureate nursing program for both the pre-licensure students and the registered nurse students are to prepare professional nurse generalists who provide culturally congruent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, and communities in and across all environments by application of a transcultural nursing framework, who possess a broad knowledge of the humanities, biological and social sciences and who possess an in-depth knowledge of nursing with a readiness for graduate study.
Accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the baccalaureate nursing program is solidly rooted in the liberal arts tradition of Nazareth College. The transcultural nursing framework provides opportunities to work with patients across the life span from diverse cultures.
The senior experience for both the pre-licensure students and the registered nursing majors consists of seminars, projects and a departmental comprehensive examination in which majors examine the impact of their baccalaureate education on themselves as liberally educated persons, as members of the nursing profession, and as members of a global society. The goals of the senior experience are twofold: 1) to develop critical thinking, problem-solving and interactive skills as liberally-educated professional nurses; and 2) to analyze the interconnections among health, nursing, the liberal arts and the humanities, especially from the core areas of the Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Literature, History, Fine Arts, Mathematics and Social Sciences.
Students enrolling in the four-year licensure-qualifying program will have clinical experiences in a variety of acute, ambulatory, long-term care and community-based settings. In some upper level courses four year licensure students and RN students follow the same program.
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