Mentoring sessions allow opportunities for making suggestions to improve studying and learning, guidance in career decisions, and resource identification. By helping the students to learn, the faculty seeks to empower the students in the area of life-long learning and to broaden the views of nursing and the world. The faculty acknowledges preceptorship as a valuable learning tool. Preceptorship experience gives the students an opportunity to apply knowledge, utilize research, enhance technical skills and participate in the reality of nursing practice. Unit directors and faculty liaisons identify preceptors who convey the same clinical competency, caring and professional behaviors that are valued by the faculty.
Articulation is valued by the faculty in an effort to facilitate nursing career mobility.
Floyd College recognizes the skills and knowledge of LPN s and paramedics to build upon previously learned content and advance into a higher degree program. Graduates are encouraged with faculty support to return to higher educational programs to complete undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. The Floyd College Department of Nursing is committed to preparing clinically competent, communicative, caring beginning nurses who are able to integrate the roles of provider of care, manager of care and member within the discipline to assist clients in promotion, maintenance and restoration of optimum health. The faculty believes that learning is best achieved in a supportive, caring environment while utilizing a variety of teaching methods including multiple technological delivery systems. To provide a foundation of competency in information technology as support tools and communication tools in the provision of client care.