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School of Nursing

The King College School of Nursing seeks to educate students for professional nursing practice by integrating learning, living, and faith in a collegiate environment of academic rigor and Christian nurture and to prepare students for lifelong learning with a theoretical foundation based on Judeo-Christian principles, and the liberal arts and sciences.

A quality nursing program is built on a holistic philosophy that promotes caring relationships and critical thinking. Its curriculum promotes diversity; social tolerance and justice; and personal, interpersonal, and professional development. It supports mission work and an interdisciplinary process that focuses on the physical, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions of health. That’s exactly what you’ll find at the King College School of Nursing, and it’s an approach that works. You’ll develop key competencies to promote, maintain, and restore health through planned classroom and clinical experiences, including our nursing skills laboratory; you’ll develop working relationships with faculty who are highly qualified as skilled practitioners and educators; you’ll receive individual first-rate attention; and you’ll interact with classmates who represent a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and experiences.

You’ll apply classroom knowledge and gain hands-on experience through:

• Learning experiences at the area’s finest hospitals and community settings such as health departments and schools. You’ll gain acute and critical care experience in local major hospitals, including top-rated cardiac and oncology units. You’ll work with people of all ages, both well and ill, and those who have special needs.
• Senior capstone experience. You’ll develop management and leadership skills during a clinical experience in a variety of management situations such as adult health, women’s and newborn and childcare, case management, home health, hospice, critical care, long-term care, and/or a family practice office setting.
• The opportunity to participate in mission trips to Honduras, India, Brazil, and Italy, service learning opportunities in Washington D.C., and assist in local free health clinics.
• Research. You’ll critique current nursing research studies and gain a deeper understanding of research activities through projects that promote the benefits of evidence-based nursing practice.

Most of our nursing graduates are recruited for key positions before they graduate, many receiving offers from their first-choice employer.

Program Highlights

Our traditional nursing program can be completed in eight consecutive semesters (four years) including prerequisite courses.  Many have transferred to King to complete their final two years of schooling, while others are starting a second career. We help all students acclimate to college life through individual program planning and small group orientations.

The School of Nursing offers a baccalaureate program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree to traditional (pre-licensure) students in a conventional undergraduate format and to registered nurses in a cohort-based accelerated format.

Both programs build on courses in the liberal arts & sciences, and integrate a strong foundation of Christian values. Graduates of both programs are well-prepared to practice professional nursing in today’s complex health care delivery system.

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Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Accreditation Visit

The King College School of Nursing BSN Program received 10 year re-accreditation status in April 2006. The MSN Program received five year accreditation status as a new program in October 2007.

CCNE is an autonomous accrediting agency that helps ensure the quality and integrity of baccalaureate and graduate education programs in preparing effective nurses.