Program Overview

College of Nursing

The College of Nursing offers a range of programs, including undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Undergraduate Programs

• BSN
• RN to BSN
• RN to BSN Early Assurance
• Eastern North Carolina RIBN: Partnership with East Carolina University College of Nursing
• aRIBN
• ABSN

Graduate Programs

• MSN
• DNP
• PhD
• Leadership Degree Options
• Emergency/Disaster Certificate Program

Curricular Overview

Goal

To prepare nurses for a career as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), the Nurse Anesthesia Program faculty subscribe to the belief that learning is a developmental process through which declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge bases are developed and refined in a developmental fashion.

Course

To achieve this integration of knowledge structures, our innovative program provides intense, multidisciplinary didactic and clinical instruction. Students are prepared to be successful on the National Certification Examination (NCE) as well as to embark upon successful careers as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs).

• Basic Sciences taught by content experts, professors of Anatomy, Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Physiology.
• Basic science classes taken with medical and other doctoral students at the Brody School of Medicine.
• Basic Sciences Clinical Correlations taught by clinical anesthesia experts.
• Full Anatomy Course (5 semester hours) with cadaver lab, taught by 4 Ph.D. faculty.
• Pharmacology taught by 7 Ph.D. faculty includes simulated autonomic lab guided by pharmacologist.
• Physiology course taught by 7 Ph.D. faculty with clinically relevant labs.
• Chemistry course designed for nurse anesthesia students that provides the organic and biochemical underpinnings of medicinal and physiological chemistry taught by Ph.D. faculty.
• Applied Sciences taught by clinical experts (CRNAs and MDs) in classroom, and during clinical conferences. Principles reinforced in the clinical area.
• Student-friendly faculty who tailor clinical and didactic seminars to meet individual needs.
• Small class size with low faculty to student ratio.

Program Resources

• Nurse Anesthesia
• Curriculum
• Curricular Integration
• Clinical Curriculum
• Plan of Study
• Student DNP Handbook