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School of Nursing

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: 100 percent of King’s spring 2004 nursing graduates passed the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN), exceeding both the national and state average. This marks the third consecutive year that 100 percent of our graduates have passed this exam. In addition, most of our nursing graduates are recruited for key positions before they graduate, many receiving offers from their first-choice employer.

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 practicing professionals, nurse practitioners, and educators. The established clinical guidelines for the faculty to student ratio are 1:10, which may be adjusted to lower ratio settings with a higher acuity level of patient care. In our clinical settings ensures you’ll receive individual first-rate attention.

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

• Learning experiences at the area’s finest hospitals and community settings such as nursing homes and health departments. You’ll gain acute and critical care experience in four 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.
• Mission trips to Honduras, India, Brazil, and Italy, and service learning opportunities in Washington D.C., and locally such as blood drives for BRMC, Coats for Kids, and free health clinics in Johnson City,
• Research. You’ll critique current nursing research articles and gain a deeper understanding of research activities through projects that promote the benefits of evidence-based nursing practice.

Program Highlights

Our Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program offers a baccalaureate degree to pre-licensure and registered nurse students. The program is built on a broad base of learning and is reinforced by King’s outstanding Natural Sciences and Mathematics division, ranked as one of the best 200 programs in the nation by Peterson’s Guide to Top Programs in Science and Mathematics.

Our traditional nursing program can be completed in eight consecutive semesters (four years). Because it’s designed to accommodate both full- and part-time students, you’ll interact with classmates who represent a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and experiences. Of the older students, 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 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.

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

Both programs build on courses in the Humanities, Arts & Sciences, and integrate a strong foundation of Christian values. The content is founded on essential nursing competencies to promote, maintain, and restore health.

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Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Accreditation Visit

The King College School of Nursing will be hosting an accreditation site visit for the Masters of Nursing program by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) on campus February 28, 2007 through March 2, 2007. All interested parties wishing to send written comment about the MSN nursing program are invited to do so; these comments will be accepted by CCNE until 30 days before the visit.

Please direct all comments to:
Ms. Sarah Jameson, Accreditation Assistant
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530
Washington, DC 20036-1120

CCNE is an autonomous accrediting agency that helps ensure the quality and integrity of baccalaureate and graduate education programs in preparing effective nurses. The purpose of the visit is to review the institution’s ability to meet the commission’s criteria for accreditation.