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2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

Associate Degree Nursing, AAS


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The Associate Degree Nursing curriculum provides knowledge, skills, and strategies to integrate safety and quality into nursing care, to practice in a dynamic environment, and to meet individual needs which impact health, quality of life, and achievement of potential.

Course work includes and builds upon the domains of health care, nursing practice, and the holistic individual. Content emphasizes the nurse as a member of the interdisciplinary team providing safe, individualized care while employing evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics.

Graduates of this program are eligible to apply to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN). Employment opportunities are vast within the global health care system and may include positions within acute, chronic, extended, industrial, and community health care facilities.

The SPCC Associate Degree Nursing Program is approved by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Contact the Board at P. O. Box 2129, Raleigh, NC 27602-2129, or 4516 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh, NC 27607, or call 919-782-3211 for questions about the approval.

General Education Requirements (16 Credit Hours)


Communications (6 CH)


Humanities/Fine Arts (3 CH)


Choose one course:

Social/Behavioral Sciences (3 CH)


Psychology


Natural Sciences/Mathematics (4 CH)


Total Credit Hours In Degree: 72


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