Diploma Nursing

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Diploma Nursing

• Team Members
• Todd Autry
• Celeste Stoltz
• Kelli Anderson
• Robyn Ward
• Christina Valentin

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Diploma Nursing

• Curriculum
• Clinical experiences
• Educational site
• Future trends in education preparation
• Current Employment Status
• Job Descriptions

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Diploma Nursing

• Salaries
• Jobs Available
• Future Employment Needs

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Diploma Nursing Curriculum

• Ø   initially, education was mostly
  apprenticeship
• Ø    provided much of workforce for hospitals
• Ø    learning mostly learned by "hands on"

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Diploma Nursing Curriculum

• Ø    curriculum blocks of study
•     Medical nursing
•        Surgical nursing
•        Psychiatric nursing
•        Obstetrics
•        Pediatrics
•        Operating and emergency department

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Diploma Nursing Curriculum

• Ø    support courses were in basics
•        Anatomy
•        Physiology
•        Nutrition
•        Pharmacology

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Diploma Nursing Clinical Experience

• Students mostly assigned during early and late
  hours of day ( this time was when staff was
  needed the most).
• most days were at least 12 hours.
• Nurses lived together in a dormitory, usually
  accessible to the hospital.
• Senior year.
• Responsible for supervising units of hospital,
  normally 1 month spent supervising each shift of
  days, evenings, nights.

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Diploma Nursing Educational Site

• www.lib.utulsa.edu
• www.nln.org
• www.nlac.org
• www.nursingsociety.org
• Ebsco host
• Innopac

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Diploma Nursing Future Trends in Education
Preparation

• There is little long term future for diploma
  nursing programs although there are still several
  on the east and west coasts. The type of
  learning opportunities in a diploma program are
  not broad enough to provide a nurse to meet the
  wide realm of the health care industry now and in
  the future. Diploma education limits most nurses
  from advancing in their professional careers and
  there are work situations that do not hire less
  than BSN prepared nurses.

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Diploma Nursing Future Trends in Education
Preparation

• The reason there remain diploma programs most
  likely is that they are funded and supported by
  the hospital association/organizations and the
  doctors in the area they continue to exist. Most
  have been integrated into university education
  settings with many becoming part of BSN programs.

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Diploma Nursing Future Trends in Education
Preparation

• Diploma nurses very often seek their BSN or
  higher degrees in other nursing related areas
  (psychology, etc.). There are some fine diploma
  graduates who have been working as nurses for
  many years who have a wealth of clinical
  knowledge and are great at the bedside.
• Those who are in many clinical settings have
  grown with their roles and have accumulated a
  broader knowledge base, if they have not taken
  courses toward a BSN.
• I would say that I met that criteria until I
  completed my BSN.
• Quote Marie Ahrens.
• Clinical instructor in nursing.
• University of Tulsa.

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Diploma Nursing Job Description

• Diploma, Associate or Baccalaureate Degree in
  Nursing with six months experience in area of
  specialty/desired practice. Current
  unrestricted licensure to practice as a
  Registered Nurse in the state(s) to which
  assigned and current CPR certification
  required. Prior home health experience
  preferred. Experience administering
  appropriate medication based on patients'
  histories. Has knowledge of the uses and typical
  dosages of different medications.

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Diploma Nursing Job Description

• Excellent diagnostic and clinical skills. Able
  to obtain a good history, perform a routine
  physical, and create a working diagnosis and
  treatment plan.
• Is team-oriented and works collaboratively with
  others in the medical team.
• Capable of performing general procedural
  nursing duties.
• Good understanding of physiological functions
  and processes as they relate to issues of patient
  care.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Builds trust and is patient and responsive to
  client's needs.
• Source Monster.com

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Diploma NursingSalaries
Source Department of Labor
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Diploma NursingFuture Employment Needs
Source DOL, CareerInfonet
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Diploma Nursing

• Sources
• Nursing in Todays world, Challenges, and Issues,
  and Trends Ellis, Janis Rider 5th edition
• Monster.com
• U.S. Department of Labor
• TU Faculty