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Columbia College of Nursing in the Community
Students who maintain satisfactory academic progression receive
guaranteed placement in a variety of clinical settings. Students
receive hands-on experience at area:
- Community health agencies
- Clinics
- Schools
- Acute-care hospitals, such as Columbia Hospital, St. Mary's
Milwaukee, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Waukesha Memorial,
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
- Long-term care facilities
El Centro de Salud Columbia College of Nursing has established and operates El Centro
de Salud, a nurse-managed health center within the United Community
Center on Milwaukee's near south side. The site offers health screenings
and exams, basic treatments, evaluations, and health information
free of charge to the neighborhood's predominantly Hispanic population.
While helping staff this unique center, Columbia-Mount Mary students
are provided with a cultural immersion experience while focusing
on illness prevention and health promotion. This program has been
featured on WTMJ TV's "Positively Milwaukee", other local
news broadcasts and in a variety of print media stories. Madison University High School Wellness Center .jpg) Columbia
College of Nursing operates a wellness center at Madison
University High School on Milwaukee's northwest side. Columbia-Mount
Mary students provide assistance with health education, illness
prevention, chronic illness support, and first aid. They also serve
as role models to the high school students interested in careers
in health care fields. Columbia-Mount Mary students gain firsthand
experience with managing a community-based health care facility.
Ft. McCoy, WI Youth Camps Students from the Columbia-Mount Mary Nursing Program are able
to serve as youth camp nurses at Ft.
McCoy in Tomah, WI. This clinical experience focuses on community,
pediatric, and mental health nursing. Student-nurses provide health
screenings, remedial health education and resources to camp attendees
(ages 8-17). During the three-day camp, student-nurses sharpen leadership
skills, refine independent critical analysis abilities and explore
group dynamics. Concordia Language Villages Columbia-Mount Mary student-nurses act as health care resources
to school-aged attendees of Concordia
Language Village. These language camps, run each summer in rural
areas of Central Minnesota, draw a global audience, resulting in
a cultural immersion experience for student-nurses. This clinical
setting offers hands-on training with illness and injury documentation,
health screenings, consultation calls to area physicians and pharmacies,
and medication administration. Student-nurses also participate in
a wilderness first aid certification course. T'ohono Odham Indian Reservation Columbia College of Nursing offers a two-week practicum at the
Indian Health Service Hospital and Outpatient Clinics in Sells,
Arizona. Senior Nursing students and Registered Nurses returning
for their baccalaureate degree have opportunities to increase their
skills and critical thinking in emergency medicine, community health
and mental health nursing care. This experience also provides an
opportunity to examine the sociocultural and historical factors
that impact the tribes and the health care services provided. Each student participates in 50-70 hours of clinical practicum
during the two-week period. The major health problems treated are
alcohol abuse, obesity, diabetes and burns due to falls into the
open fires used to heat homes during the winter months. When patients
need surgery or more intensive care than is offered at the clinics
or the hospital in Sells, they are transported the 60 miles into
Tucson by ambulance or helicopter.
Transfer Students Clinical placement in the Columbia College of Nursing/Mount Mary College nursing program is on a first come, first served basis to all transfer students. Please contact the Mount Mary Enrollment Office, 414-256-1219, for current nursing clinical availability.
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