Utilize theories, concepts, and analytic methodologies to design, implement, and evaluate practice by applying evidence to transform nursing system.
Collaborate with healthcare professionals, consumers, and other stakeholders to influence health policy and health promotion/disease prevention endeavors at the local, state, federal, and/or international levels that improve patient and population health outcomes.
Implement the highest level of advanced nursing care to produce high quality, cost-effective outcomes for diverse patient populations.
Contribute to the knowledge of best-practices nursing interventions and the dissemination of outcomes through professional writing and presentations.
Develop practice standards based on the integration of ethics and evidence-based nursing care.
The School of Nursing is responsible for all components of the program, including the selection, supervision, and evaluation of Nursing students, and the curriculum—both didactic and clinical. The curriculum includes cultural, ethnic, and socially diverse concepts and may also include experience from regional, national or global perspectives. Throughout the program, the focus is on the advanced practice nurse as a leader for the interdisciplinary health team, working with physicians, mental health providers, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to meet the health care needs of patients in a diverse environment.
Kentucky Board of Nursing (KBN) requires all misdemeanor and felony convictions occurring in Kentucky or any other states well as federal and military convictions be reported to the KBN. Conviction of certain felonies will cause a “Notice to Deny Licensure” to be issued to applicants seeking to write the nursing licensure examination. In accordance with this policy, the School of Nursing requires that each student submit an undated criminal background check to the School of Nursing annually.
All students enrolled in Nursing Courses are required to have CPR for the Healthcare Provider certification, i.e. They must be certified in Adult, Child, and infant CPR as well as the use of the AED. This training must be from an approved CPR American Heart Association curriculum. Each student must keep a current CPR card on file in the School of Nursing.
In addition to the health form submitted to the University Student Health Service, each nursing student must have a completed School of Nursing immunization form on file. All immunizations required by the clinical facility must be current. The immunization form will be provided by the School of Nursing.
Nursing students pay the same general fees and tuition as do other students at the University. However, students in the Nursing program incur additional expenses for uniforms, name badge, nursing emblem, liability insurance, stethoscope, bandage scissors, white nurse's
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