School of Nursing

AT-A-GLANCE

FACULTY

Full Professor: Mary L Davis-Ajami; Associate Professors: William Matcham, Heather Rice, Joan Thoman; Clinical Associate Professors: Michele Kwiatkowski, Janterria Matthews, Karen Pace; Associate College Lecturers: Heather Bort, Laurie Brown, Lisa Huffman; Assistant Professors: Linda Cefo, Mary Gergis, Wendy Sarver; Clinical Assistant Professors: Smita Gallagher, Keith Jenkins, Pretti Polk, Tonya Runner, Niki Smiley Wilson, Cynthia Woodfield; Assistant College Lecturers: Rachel Green Walczak, Tameika Harris, Lori Hopkins, Quintasha McCrimon, Sarah Nocero, Erica Portis.

OVERVIEW

Degree granted: Bachelor of Science in Nursing

The program is available to men and women who have been admitted to Cleveland State University and the School of Nursing. High-school graduates and licensed practical nurses who fulfill admission requirements are considered for admission to the program. The RN to BSN track is designed for registered nurses. The accelerated track is open only to students who already have a bachelor’s degree in a non-nursing field. This track permits qualified students to take nursing major courses at a fast pace to obtain a second bachelor’s degree.

The baccalaureate nursing curriculum includes courses from the liberal arts and sciences and the professional Nursing major. The liberal arts component provides a foundation of knowledge from the natural and behavioral sciences and the humanities. The Nursing major provides students with the opportunity to develop attitudes, values, and skills essential for the practice of professional nursing.

Students develop the ability to use a conceptual framework to implement the nursing process with clients. The baccalaureate nursing program prepares graduates to use critical thinking and therapeutic nursing interventions to provide direct and indirect care to individuals, families, groups, and communities. Clinical experience is provided in a variety of community-based settings: hospitals, ambulatory and long-term care facilities, and community health agencies in the Greater Cleveland area.

The purposes of the programs are to prepare graduates for professional nursing practice, for undertaking graduate study in nursing, and for leadership in health care. Graduates are committed to the health and well-being of people and demonstrate respect for their dignity, worth, cultural diversity, and autonomy. The baccalaureate nursing curriculum provides learning opportunities that foster the development of self-direction, creativity, analytical thinking, and discriminative judgment.