Program Overview

Associate Degree in Nursing

The Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program requires students to engage in diverse, complex, and specific experiences essential to the acquisition and practice of essential nursing skills and functions. Unique combinations of cognitive, affective, psychomotor, physical, and social abilities are required to satisfactorily perform these functions.

Technical Standards

The curriculum leading to the Associate Degree in Nursing requires students to possess certain technical standards, including:

• Participate in classroom, clinical, and laboratory discussions and learning activities.
• Ability to commit to memory essential formulas, assessment and treatment factors, and medication modes essential to safe patient care.
• Participate in intellectual activities requiring critical thinking, judgment, and analysis.
• Solve problems and plan care within reasonable time frames in complex environments.
• Accurately complete a full head to toe assessment including but not limited to vital signs, skin assessment, lung and heart sounds, neurological assessment, and wound assessment.
• Move safely around the skills lab, patient rooms and in a variety of clinical settings.
• Assemble and transport a wide range of equipment and supplies to and from patient rooms and other clinical care areas.
• Assist patients with mobility, which may include moving patients in and out of beds, gurneys, and chairs.
• Perform nursing care in a timely and safe manner including the provision of life saving interventions and psychomotor skills such as sterile wound care, catheter insertions, and delivery of parenteral fluids/medications.
• Accurately assess, compute, prepare, and administer medications using oral, rectal, intramuscular, intradermal, and intravenous routes.
• Accurately document patient care on paper and in the electronic health record in a timely manner.
• Communicate with patients, caregivers, family members, and other healthcare personnel in a manner that is clear, accurate, and ensures that the plan of care is understood.
• Develop therapeutic patient and family relationships.
• Establish professional relationships with faculty, other students, staff of affiliating agencies, and members of the community.
• Express feelings and ideas in a professional manner.
• Provide and accept feedback respectfully.
• Adapt to unexpected changes and stressful situations.
• Exercise good judgment.
• Empathize with the feelings and situations of others.
• Identify own emotional responses, be reasonably objective and maintain self-control during difficult situations.

Process of Reasonable Accommodation

The Associate Degree in Nursing program is committed to ensuring that otherwise qualified students with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Students with disabilities who wish to request these accommodations must contact the Disability Resources Department to determine eligibility for services prior to the start of the program. The program remains flexible with regard to the types of reasonable accommodations that can be made in the college's classrooms, labs, and clinical settings. Students with disabilities are invited to offer suggestions for accommodations that have worked in the past. Accommodations made will specifically address the limitations of the disability.

Accreditation

Santa Rosa Junior College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges.