Nursing

Approved by the Maine State Board of Nursing and fully accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission Inc. (NLNAC), our Associates Nursing program will provide you with outstanding preparation for practice in structured health care settings such as hospitals, nursing care facilities, and community-based agencies. If you are already an RN with an Associates degree, our holistic Bachelors program is the perfect way for you to advance your career and prepare for graduate school. Our RN-BSN program is in candidacy status for accreditation with the NLNAC. Campus; RN-B.S.N. via hybrid and online course offerings.


 

 

Bachelor of Science – Nursing Completion Program

 

A whole new way to care.

Are you an RN in Maine looking to expand your horizons, both in how you care for others and how you care for yourself? With a holistic focus and approach, UMA's BSN Completion Program (RN- BSN) will expose you to new ways of caring, while preparing you for exciting new career opportunities or graduate level study.

 

 

Florence Nightingale Monument: London

 

 

Though we say that our BSN Completion Program offers "a whole new way to care," in truth UMA's holistic focus dates all the way back to Florence Nightingale. Over 100 years ago, the founder of modern nursing was emphasizing the same humanitarian, patient-centered values that our program does today. "We must not talk to them or at them," Nightingale said, "but with them."

Nightingale's patient-centered approach to nursing care and healing diminished within the medical technology revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries. But in recent years, holistic nursing has begun to found its rightful way back into contemporary nursing, effectively tying together medical breakthroughs with a nurturing and healing approach. This is the very premise of UMA's BSN program. It takes the best of modern medicine, health, and caring, and ties it together with all the profession has learned over the past 100 years.

 

A whole new way to grow.

With UMA's holistic approach, our BSN Completion program is not just about the patient. It is also about you. As a student here, you will learn how to take better care of yourself in a profession that we all know firsthand can be incredibly stressful.

At the same time you are learning to take care of yourself, you will also be equipped with new skills; you will earn the qualifications necessary to take your nursing career in new directions, to assume professional leadership positions, to adapt to the changing nature of health care and health care roles, and to pursue a graduate degree.

 

A whole new way to learn.

Because most of our BSN students are working nurses, UMA's program offers a combination of online learning with occasional live classes. This blended approach of e-learning and campus face-to-face meetings will enable you to flourish in our program, no matter the demands of your daily life or how far you live from Augusta.

 

Are you ready for hybrid-online learning?

Please visit the readiness page here:

http://learn.maine.edu/get-started/steps/

 

Get to know us!

Feel free to visit us on our facebook page to learn about our latest activities and events:

RN- BSN Facebook Page

 

Ready to Apply?


Please visit:

http://uma.edu/readytoapply.html

 

 

Registration for RN- BSN courses is now open for Summer and Fall 2012 semesters!

Fall 2012 open classes include:

NUR 389- Integrative Yoga (elective)

NUR 301- Health Assessment

NUR 302-Pharmacology

NUR 304- Concepts of Professional Nursing

NUR 410- Leadership and Management

NUR 420- The American Healthcare system (elective)


We are offering 2 upper level electives during summer 2012.  NUR 389: Yoga (claas is full) and NUR 425: Hands on Healing: Reiki (class is full).

Contact Dr. Carey Clark for more information at carey.clark@maine.edu

 

Our Senior Celebration!

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A great video from Olga Jarin about integral approaches to nursing:

 

 

 

Our new RN- BSN promotional video; this provides a nice overview of the self-care components of the program.

 

This is a meditation from Jean Watson; it is for Fall, however it still applies for the changing season as we move toward Spring.

 

 

A Blast from the Past: The Politics of Caring

 You may be interested in linking out to this video on the politics of caring at the Nurse Manifest Website:

http://nursemanifest.com/

 

 

 

 

This is a video about integrative medicine and use of holistic modalities at Beth Israel Medical Center.

The Urban Zen Initiative is sponsored by Donna Karan, a Reiki Master and Fashion Designer.

Upon successful completion of the RN- BSN program, the graduate will be able to:

  1. Plan and provide holistic nursing care in diverse health care settings, including hospitals and community agencies.
  2. Provide care based on enhanced theoretical knowledge and the nursing research/ evidence base to improve patient outcomes.
  3. Provide culturally and ethically competent care to diverse client populations across the lifespan.
  4. Focus on continued development of one's professional identity with an ability to provide leadership in continuously improving care.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively via a variety of technological, written, and verbal modalities.
  6. Demonstrate competency with leadership and transformative change skills in providing and influencing care delivery in diverse healthcare settings.
  7. Demonstrate competency with self care-healing modalities in order to create sustainable caring-healing practices.
  8. Enter into and succeed at the graduate level of education; enact a commitment to lifelong learning.

 

 

The Following is a sample of some of our graduating students' outcomes, stated in their own words.

BSN_outcomes_1.pdf

 

Dr. Carey S. Clark

 

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Dr.Carey Clark has been a nurse since 1994, with a wide range of practical-clinical experience, including acute medical-surgical, pediatrics, inpatient psychiatric, home health nursing, parish nursing, and hospice nursing. Dr. Clark has taught for 15 years across all levels of nursing in the traditional, online, and hybrid classroom settings. 

 

Her research interests are focused on caring in nursing and nursing education, as well as the empowerment of nurses. Her dissertation examined Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring and the volume related her nursing theory to interdisciplinary theories such as complexity, chaos theory, transpersonal psychology, and partnership social systems. Dr. Clark is passionate about expanding upon others ideas to delve deeper into the meanings of life, love, and caring. She is a Reiki Master, a yoga teacher, and is skilled in assisting others to create sustainable holistic caring-healing nursing practices.

 

Dr. Clark has been involved for several years with the Nurse Manifest Project, a grass-roots movement focusing on the revamping of nursing practice and the autonomy and emancipation of nurses worldwide. She currently blogs about creating change and nurses autonomy for the Nurse Manifest project. Dr Clark’s research and publications in peer -reviewed journals have elucidated the ideas of caring in nursing and nursing education. Dr. Clark is the editor of the American Holistic Nurses Association student-faculty newsletter. Dr. Clark was honored in 2011 to receive the Carrie Lenburg Award from Excelsior College for outstanding commitment to nursing education.

 

Having completed both the MSN and PhD coursework in the online format, she is very familiar with the challenges and benefits of working in this environment from the student perspective. Dr. Clark looks forward to working with the students enrolled in the RN- BSN program at UMA and supporting their scholarly learning journey, as well as their self-care and healing processes.