The choice of a nursing school is a very important one. It will have an impact on your life now as well as once you have graduated and have found work as a nurse. Before you can begin working as a nurse you must earn your degree as a registered nurse (RN). Here we provide information about the top choices of from a list of Alabama nursing schools. All of the schools described here offer comprehensive nursing programs to their students.
Troy University
Troy University is a well known and well respected institution of higher learning that is found in Troy, Alabama. The school is fully accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The school recently accepted a large grant to help them attract more nursing students who wish to work in rural areas of the state. This school has four campuses in total and the student life here is excellent.
Troy University is a private non-profit school that offers four year bachelor’s degrees. It offers to its students the ASN, BSN, RN and MSN. It also has programs pertaining to clinical specialist, family nurse practitioner and nursing informatics. The programs of study at Troy are all very intensive and challenging. There is plenty of classroom time as well as supervised clinical training. Sample courses that would be taken by a nursing student here include health assessment, public health nursing and pathophysiology.
Auburn University
Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama offers students the opportunity to learn in a beautiful setting with well qualified faculty member for educators. Auburn is a private college that offers four year degree programs. Besides its high level of education the school also has an excellent athletic program.
The nursing programs offered at Auburn University combine classroom work with clinical experience and time spent in the lab. Auburn University only offers undergraduate degrees in nursing. Here you can study for your Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. If you wish to study at the graduate level then you must go elsewhere to do that.
Lurleen B. Wallace Community College
Some students prefer the environment of a college over that of a university. One such college in Alabama that is welcoming as well as affordable is the Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Andalusia. This college is a public one that offers to all interested students a two year Associate’s of Nursing degree. Once students have graduated from Lurleen B. Wallace they are then eligible to take the State Board examination.
The Practical Nursing School found at this college is growing by leaps and bounds. The school aims not only to teach its students the technical side of becoming a nurse but also the caring and humanistic side of such. The approach to nursing here could be described as being well-rounded. Nursing courses make up the backbone of study but there are other general courses that students must take in order to graduate. Some examples of courses that students will learn here include maternal nursing, pharmacology and mathematical applications.
