Session 2

Nursing

Caring Hands, Healing Hearts

Explore the world of nursing and what it takes to become a nurse. Experience the clinical training labs in our state-of-the-art simulation centers and learn about the life of a nurse from local nurses, faculty and our graduate students.

Curriculum

Students gain hands-on experiences in this program, to help them decide whether becoming a registered nurse is for them. They learn from nurses, nurse-faculty and nursing graduate students what the career is like and how to prepare an application to a nursing program. Students explore different kinds of nursing specialties such as maternity, pediatrics, medical-surgical, community health, mental health and emergency nursing and have opportunities to interact with nurses working in those areas. Using state-of-the-art clinical simulations labs, they learn and practice nursing skills. Visits to a local hospital provides them with the opportunity to see what nurses actually do in the real world and hear about the importance of caring and compassion in the profession of nursing.

Nursing students
Planned Topics

During the two-week program, students can expect to:

  • Discover what it means to be a registered nurse.
  • Explore the educational path to becoming a registered nurse.
  • Understand the steps of getting into a nursing program.
  • Experience the life of a nursing student.
  • Learn about the different types of nursing careers.
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Ann Stoltz
Faculty Lead
Ann Stoltz

Associate Director of the Entry Level MSN Program at Pacific

BSN, San Jose State University, 1975
MSN, California State University Sacramento, 1995
PhD, University of California, Davis, 2005

Dr. Stoltz's clinical specialties are community health and school nursing.  Her passion is nursing education, and she has taught since 1993 and has been an administrator for nursing programs since 2005.

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