Associate Degree Nursing
Associate Degree Nursing is a two-year program that prepares the graduate as a generalist capable of providing competent, accountable client care in diverse settings. The graduate utilizes skills in critical thinking, relationship, care management, primary care, and community to function as a provider of care, manager of care and member of a profession. Health promotion, disease prevention, and heath protection, across the lifespan, are integrated throughout the curriculum.
Major areas of emphasis encompass the following core components of nursing practice: professional behaviors, communication, assessment, clinical decision making, caring interventions, teaching and learning, collaboration and managing care. The graduate is prepared to write the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Licensing of registered nurses is regulated by the Mississippi Board of Nursing. The program is accredited by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.
For more information about the program or assistance with the admission process, call one of our Nursing/Allied Health Center counselors at 601-376-4802, 601-376-4803.
Information Sessions
Information sessions are held at the Nursing/Allied Health Center on the first Friday of each month at 1 p.m., except holidays. These sessions will provide you with an opportunity to talk with nursing faculty, counselors, and financial aid representatives and to tour school labs.
Nursing School Success
_Nursing School Success brochure - a self-paced study guide that will assist nursing students throughout their college program.