GOING STRONG 15 Years of Growth at AMU
Ave Nursing Program Facility Upgrade
a v e m a r i a m a g a z i n e | f a l l 2018
This past July, the Ave Maria University Bachelor of Science
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in Nursing (BSN) program moved into its new location in the Prince Building. Ave’s BSN program is a four-year, prelicensure degree approved by the Florida State Board of Nursing and regionally accredited by SACS. BSN graduates are eligible to take the NCLEX-RN examination, successful passing AMU nursing students learning in the Nursing of which qualifies them for work as licensed Registered Nurses. Simulation Lab Due to its continued rapid growth, the BSN program was in need of a larger permanent home. The Prince Building proved to be the perfect space to house this major. Within this Ave Maria University’s BSN degree is the first BSN program exquisitely designed building, the new nursing program space in Collier County and the only Catholic nursing program in features a simulation lab, a dedicated classroom for didactic southwest Florida. The program employs three full-time nursinstruction and offices for faculty. The nursing simulation lab ing faculty and three part-time or adjunct faculty, all of whom includes six hospital beds and one crib furnished with state-ofserve as clinical instructors to guide students through their the-art mannequins and equipment clinical experiences. that allow students to learn and Within the Prince Building, the AMU’S NURSING PROGRAM VISION STATEMENT: practice their skills before beginning BSN facilities are appropriately “Ave Maria University’s BSN program aspires to be their clinical experiences at local located adjacent to the future home internationally recognized as a producer of future registered hospitals and healthcare agencies. of the Mother Teresa Museum as The BSN program was launched nurse leaders who emulate the words and example of St. the BSN program’s vision statement in August, 2015 and has grown to 29 exemplifies St. Teresa of Calcutta as a Teresa of Calcutta through healing of mind, body, and spirit students enrolled for the fall of 2018. role model.
for individuals and communities throughout the world.”
