Associate Degree in Nursing
Colorado Technical University’s associate degree in nursing program (ADN) is designed to help students understand the fast-paced world of nursing and offers the necessary tools to make a positive impact in the healthcare industry. Throughout the program you could to develop skills to work effectively alone and in teams, good communication, and have a knowledge of your role in the healthcare field.
The resources available for students in the associate degree in nursing program include a quality, evidence-based curriculum with faculty, many of whom have experience in their fields, and 24/7 support for course resources and materials. Such flexibility can gives working students with other responsibilities the freedom to learn even with busy schedules.
The role CTU plays in the lives our students doesn’t end when you graduate. In addition to the support you can receive while you’re enrolled in the nursing program, CTU offers career planning and exploration services to help you identify an occupation you’d like to pursue, search for employment opportunities, and help prepare for an interview. From the first day of classes to the first day your job search, CTU is there to give students the support they need.
By empowering our students with quality education, CTU helps graduates of the associate degree in nursing program prepare to provide quality clinical nursing care to their patients. And by supporting our students throughout their courses, we strive to provide our graduates with a fulfilling and useful educational experience. At CTU, we help motivated professionals pursue opportunities.
- Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate
and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual
respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care
- Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for
delivery of optimal health care
- Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual
performance
- Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test
changes to continuously improve quality and safety of health care systems
- Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making
- Demonstrate behaviors characteristic of professional nursing
- Foundations of Patient Centered Care
- Patient Centered Care
- Patient Centered Care Clinical
- Chronic Adult Illness
- Chronic Adult Illness Clinical
- Pharmacologic Support for Patient Centered Care
- Ethical Decision Making in Nursing
- Gerontological Principles of Nursing
- Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing
- Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing Clinical
- Care of Mental Health Clients
- Care of Mental Health Clients Clinical
- Care of the Childbearing Family
- Care of the Childbearing Family Clinical
- Pediatrics
- Pediatrics Clinical
- Complex Care of the Adult
- Complex Care of the Adult Clinical
- Nursing Leadership and Management
- Nursing Leadership and Management Clinical
- Nursing Practice Readiness
- Nursing Practicum
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This program is available at the following campuses and/or online:
As of April 26, 2012, the Associate Degree in Nursing at the Pueblo Campus has conditional approval from the State of Colorado, State Board of Nursing, Department of Regulatory Operations, 1560 Broadway, Suite 1350, Denver, Colorado 80202. Ph: (303) 894-2430.
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