(BCC) Nursing Degree, Program Information at Brevard Community College

A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, informed, or other individuals or groups. Includes instruction in the administration of medication and treatments, assisting a physician during treatments and examinations, Referring patients to physicians and other health care specialists, and planning education for health maintenance. Find Colleges Offering Nursing Degree.

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Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Job Description
Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.
Important Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Written Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Written Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Speech Clarity
Registered Nurses
Job Description
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.
Salary and Wages
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
- Total Employment: 4,260
- Average Annual Salary: $59,310
- Average Hourly Rate: $28.51
Projections
- Total Employment (2006): 2,504,664
- Total Employment Projected (2016): 3,092,013
- Percent Job Growth: 23.45%
Important Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Written Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Written Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Information Ordering
- Near Vision
- Speech Recognition

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Awarded Degrees and Program Completion Details

Nursing

	Total
Overall
All Students	74

By Gender
Male	11
Female	63

By Race
Non-Resident Alien	-
American Indian	-
Black	7
Asian	4
Hispanic	1
White	62
Unknown	-

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