Nursing through UAA

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Nursing through UAA

The Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Nursing degree program in Southeast Alaska is offered through a partnership between the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) School of Nursing (SON), and local community hospitals. Students interested in the AAS, Nursing degree are able to complete their general education requirements and other pre-requisites at UAS through the Certificate in Pre-Nursing Qualifications (p.88), and can then apply to the UAA AAS, Nursing program. Students who are accepted into the UAA AAS, Nursing degree in Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka attend classes at the local UAS campus through video conferencing and e-Learning technologies, and perform clinical rotations at local community hospitals. In the third and fourth semester of the nursing program, students must travel to Anchorage for three weeks at their own expense for additional clinical experience in obstetric, pediatric, psychiatric, and advanced medical/surgical nursing topics.

The outreach delivered programs in Juneau (eight to ten student positions) and Ketchikan (eight student positions) accepts students on the even numbered years (2012, 2014, etc.). The application deadline for the next Juneau / Ketchikan cohort will be July 1, 2013, and classes will begin January 2014. The distance delivered program in Sitka (eight student positions) accepts students on the odd numbered years (2013, 2015, etc.). The application deadline for the next Sitka cohort is July 1, 2012, and classes will begin January 2013. All outreach delivered training sites begin courses in the spring semester (January) and end or graduate in the fall semester (December) of the following year. For example, the Juneau cohort that started in Spring 2012 will graduate in Fall 2013.