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Show Cooperative Nursing Degrees Special Project: Nurse Advancement Program The Associate degree in nursing offers career mobility to licensed practical nurses in selected areas of the state. This Nurse Advancement Program is offered only at the request of hospitals and interested community members. Students are selected from the community and most of the education is given in the community. This program is offered only in areas which demonstrate an acute need for registered nurses at the Associate degree level. For information, please contact the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Weber State College. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH EXTENDED BACCALAUREATE NURSING PROGRAM Tomiye Ishimatsu, Director Associate Professor: Tomiye Ishimatsu; Assistant Professors: Carol Davis, Janice Hassell. Description — Baccalaureate degree nurses provide within the health care system, a vital, dynamic, evolving service that maintains and promotes the health of individuals and groups. The University of Utah College of Nursing through collaborative effort with Weber State College has extended the baccalaureate nursing to the Ogden area. Registered Nurses desiring to obtain a baccalaureate degree may do so through this program. Students interest in the program should contact Maggie Pendleton. Student Counselor, University of Utah, College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah, Telephone 581-8251, or Baccalaureate Program, Weber State College campus, telephone 626-6144. Education —General education and pre-professional requirements may be completed at Weber State College, or any accredited university or college. Upon completion of the above requirements, students with a cumulative grade point average of 2.80 or above and no grade lower than a "C" are eligible. Employment Outlook —Completion of the Baccalaureate degree in Nursing prepares graduates to function in primary care roles, leadership roles, and to enter graduate programs for nurses. The demand exceeds the supply, and is expected to continue to grow more rapidly than qualified practitioners can be prepared. Related Careers —The B.S. degree nurse may elect to become a private practitioner, institutional worker, research assistant, or world health organization practitioner. 114 Outreach Educatio OFFICE OF OUTREACH EDUCATION Ann M. Smith, Director Ruth Wheeler, Nursing Continuing Education Coordinator The Office of Outreach Education, School of Allied Health Sciences, has been assigned the role of extending quality education in the allied health sciences into communities throughout Utah and the Intermountain West. The office seeks to do so in such a manner as to be least disruptive to the operation of participating health care facilities. In carrying out its operation, the office functions in three areas: — The Rural Health Workers' Educational Program designs and delivers educational programs to meet the unique needs of health workers in the rural Intermountain West. Basic to this program are multidisciplinary self- teaching modules. — The Allied Health Education Outreach Program facilitates modifications of on-campus courses and programs for off-campus presentation, primarily in the rural areas. — Allied Health Continuing Education strives to help health workers keep up with advances in their specialty, to provide primary training for new roles, to aid in meeting educational requirements for accreditation and recertification and in general provide whatever refresher training is needed. This is accomplished through short courses, workshops, and conferences presented both on campus and in the rural areas of the Intermountain West. Allied Health Sciences u$iness Ml |
