PVAMU: Professional nursing programs that enable productivity

04 Apr 2019

Proudly accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate, masters and doctorate degrees, students at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in Texas benefit from the institution’s intensifying focus on scholarly productivity and highly-touted achievements.

Educating nursing professionals from diverse backgrounds, now and into the future, the PVAMU College of Nursing (CON) has a longstanding influence in the healthcare sector with one of the oldest nursing programs established in 1918, with the first student cohort of just eight people graduating in 1922. The CON is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, and the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

Transcending the challenge of time, PVAMU nursing graduates have extensively contributed to the quality and excellence in nursing and healthcare delivery throughout Texas, the nation and the world.

Located in the world-renowned Texas Medical Centre, the PVAMU College of Nursing shares a unique relationship with numerous health-related institutions. With just over 5,000 nursing graduates contributing immeasurably as leaders of quality and distinctions in healthcare delivery, the college enables students to serve in an assortment of roles across multiple industries locally and globally.

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For college Dean, Betty Adams, “The college remains competitive in the quality and variety of programs offered inclusive with the advances of technology, smart classrooms, transforming laboratories, study and research rooms and mutual partnerships.”

Programs that spark high productivity and purpose

PVAMU College of Nursing continues to celebrate its growth and enhancement through the expansion of programs and twenty-four-hour access to online libraries, as well as other electronic programs and operations.

Offering a range of degrees, students who have just started their venture into the healthcare sector may opt for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.). This program is a four-and-a-half-year program that supports individuals, allowing them to practice professional nursing in a variety of clinical settings and encouraging them to continue their education through postgraduate studies.

On the other hand, the Master’s programs permit you to specialize in specific fields. For instance, there’s the Master of Science (MSN) Family Nurse Practitioner program where advanced-practice nurses are taught how to provide primary healthcare to clients, families and communities.

There’s the Master of Science (MSN) Nurse Administration program that prepares nurses to serve in a variety of leadership and managerial roles within the healthcare delivery system. And there’s also the Master of Science (MSN) Nurse Education, where nurses are taught how to teach in a variety of settings, including the teaching of patients and their families, nursing students, nursing staff and health consumers.

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This niche college of nursing also offers a Doctoral Program (Doctor of Nursing Practice) that builds depth, as well as extending your scope of knowledge and skills in information management to become adept in the application of evidence-based science in practice.

A faculty filled with professional healthcare practitioners

While striving to maintain effective teaching and a strong curriculum, faculty at the PVAMU College of Nursing believes their role should include the fostering of academic excellence and intellectual curiosity among students.

With faculty members who are leading experts in their fields, committed to the values believed to be inherent in professional nursing such as altruism, human dignity, truth, justice, freedom, equality and aesthetics, your education is in safe hands.

The CON’s dedication to first-class nursing academics also represents a celebration of contributions represented by philanthropic and charitable gifts from foundations, alumni, organizations and national agencies that have supported the institution’s delivery of quality balanced programs, generating phenomenal outcomes in nursing and higher education.

Recent sampling of local gifts from the Houston Endowment, Inc., The Nau Scholars Texas Fund, Methodist Hospital Houston Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Shell Oil Foundation and in collaboration with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have greatly contributed in the CON’s research in cancer prevention and pedagogical development in simulation technology; while the Kellogg Foundation supported the offering of graduate programs, Family Nurse Practitioner Program.

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PVAMU graduates are positioned and ready to achieve licensure and certification to serve as professional nurses. Most importantly, graduates are granted the tools needed to thrive in continuing education and service in leadership roles.

A truly diverse student body

After its 100^th Year of Celebration beginning in 2018, this diverse and inclusive college continues to strive for equality and equal opportunities for all, allowing every one of its students to work and learn to their fullest potential, judged solely on performance.

At this college of nursing, you’ll never stop learning. By working with others at one of the many student organizations, the development of your potential is an important benefit of participating in PVAMU out-of-class activities.

From the National Student Nurses Association (NSNA), the Prairie View International Student Nursing Organization, the Chi Eta Phi Sorority and the American Red Cross Student Nurses’ Volunteer Committee to the American Association of Men in Nursing (AAMN), students at Prairie View A&M University are exposed to many engaging educational initiatives and resources.

Continually awestruck by the quality and professionalism of the staff and faculty and the achievements of the students at the College of Nursing in the Houston, Texas Medical Centre, international visitors and the surrounding public praise the university for its pioneering research hub.

By creating innovative, multidisciplinary nursing programs that build on the modern demands of the global healthcare sector, contributing to the economic, social and cultural renewal of the local communities and having alumni whose pride in the university is at the highest intensity ever, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) connects you to your purpose.

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