Nursing, A.A.S.
Nurse the World to Health
Nurses are the beating heart of the American healthcare system. Enter an in-demand profession and put your compassion to work with a nursing degree from DCC.
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What You'll Study in Our Nursing Program
When it comes to the health and wellbeing of others, you're always the first to help. Channel your natural instinct to care for others in a field where you'll always be in demand: Become a nurse at DCC.
DCC's rigorous Nursing program is designed for students preparing for practice as a Registered Nurse. You’ll build foundational knowledge through lectures, laboratories and clinical experience in local health care agencies, all within a supportive academic community.
At DCC, you'll learn to advocate for patients in ways that promote integrity and growth. You'll make judgments based on evidence, safety and informatics. And you'll be inspired to challenge the status quo and question long-held assumptions as part of your evolving identity as a nurse.
VIEW FULL CATALOGSAMPLE COURSES
NUR 105: Nursing Science I
A clinical course focusing on the assessment of basic needs across the lifespan
NUR 107: Survey of Professional Nursing
Explore the profession of modern nursing and the landscape of the American healthcare
system
NUR 215: Parent-Child Nursing
The study of nursing care related to the prenatal, intrapartal and postpartal periods
Where Do Nursing Grads Go?
Transform your associate degree into a bachelor’s degree. DCC grads have successfully gone on to four-year programs at:
- SUNY Canton
- SUNY Delhi
- SUNY Upstate Medical Center
- Excelsior College
- Mount Saint Mary College
- Quinnipiac University
- Vassar Brothers Hospital
- Putnam Hospital
- Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center
- Hudson Valley Hospice
- Dutchess Ambulatory Surgical Care
- Westchester Medical Center
- Garnet Health
- Anderson Center
- Dutchess ARC
- Bridgeview
- Kingston Hospital
- Northern Dutchess Hospital
- Optum
- Dutchess Dialysis Center
- St. Lukes Hospital
- New Horizons
- Nyack Hospital
- Good Samaritan Hospital
Congratulations to our Nursing Graduates!
Our graduating nursing students received their pins at a ceremony held on campus May 18, 2023. Congratulations to all thirty-five graduates — the world needs you!
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