Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

School of Nursing


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Director
Sheryl Stansifer

Associate Directors
Helen Hansen
Carla Lynch

Associate Professor
Lee Anne Nichols

Clinical Associate Professors
Rhonda Martin
Kathleen Strunk

Assistant Professor
Lynn Clutter

Clinical Assistant Professors
Tonya Ballone-Walton
Tedi Courtney
Helen Hansen
Brandon King
Jennifer Kuwitzky
Carla Lynch
Angela Martindale
Sheryl Stansifer
Nicholas Zumwalt

For more information on degree programs offered by the faculty of the School of Nursing, visit the School of Nursing webpage.

The School of Nursing offers pre-licensure and R.N. to B.S.N. tracks leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.)  degree. The curriculum provides a broad general education and a solid professional program based on a nursing model (the Roy Adaptation Model) rich in content and applicability. Our goal is to produce an educated individual who is a professional nurse.

Nursing Major Learning Outcomes

Students will:

  1. Value the dignity and worth of humans acknowledging biopsychosocial and cultural stimuli that influence adaptation.
  2. Utilize adaptation theory in decision making and assisting individuals, families and communities to achieve their maximum level of adaption.
  3. Use problem-solving skills, critical thinking, independent judgment and continual evaluation to improve nursing care.
  4. Evaluate and utilize research and theoretical and empirical knowledge from the humanities and physical and behavioral sciences in nursing practice.
  5. Utilize leadership skills, accepting responsibility and being accountable for choices of nursing interventions to promote adaptation.
  6. Collaborate with colleagues on the interdisciplinary health team and serve as an advocate to promote health and welfare of patients through the political and professional process.
  7. Participate in identifying local, state and national health needs and effective changes to improve health care.
  8. Pursue further development of self and the profession in order to promote quality health care. 

Accreditation

The baccalaureate nursing program is approved by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing and accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30326. The School of Nursing is a member of the National League for Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Programs

    Major

    Courses

      Applied Health SciencesNursing

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