At Denver College of Nursing, we believe good nurses are the future of quality healthcare. That is why we strive to achieve excellence in healthcare education every day. We know our students can make a difference in others' lives while participating in SNA, community service, service-learning, and GHP, and after graduation—and for years to come. The road to success begins with a quality education facilitated by dedicated professionals. Denver College of Nursing is a private college focused solely on the art and science of nursing. Undistracted by other disciplines or inquiry areas, we can focus all of our resources and attention on the critical task at hand: Preparing students to work as nursing professionals.
Denver College of Nursing offers a brick-and-mortar campus in the heart of the vibrant lower-downtown district known as LoDo. Our Mile High City campus is a short walk from historic Union Station and Larimer Square and convenient to light rail transportation. For added convenience, we also offer distance education programs for post-licensure students.
Whether you attend our physical campus for our pre-licensure programs or earn your education virtually as a post-licensure student, rest assured that nursing is all we do at Denver College of Nursing. Know that every student you meet on campus will share your primary goal: To become excellent nursing professional.
The vision of Denver College of Nursing is to prepare excellent health care providers and leaders to transform the lives of persons and communities through innovative education and health care. Denver College of Nursing is a private institution of higher education dedicated exclusively to educating students for the diverse opportunities offered by careers in nursing and other health care fields.
Denver College of Nursing serves students, the nursing profession, health care organizations, clients receiving care, and the increasing needs of society for qualified nurses by offering programs for students who seek careers in nursing and other medical fields.
We attract and retain faculty who are student-centric and are committed to student success. Students have recognized our faculty for their open-door policies, helping students self-identify areas of weakness and improvement, academic advising, testing tips, and tutoring. Nursing and education are challenging, lifetime commitments that we embrace every day. Our students develop essential skills and have opportunities for leadership and service-learning. They make an impact on the many communities we serve locally, nationally, and globally. How do we do this? Our nursing college is dynamic, responsible, and responsive. Enrollment is every quarter to help ensure smaller class sizes and cohorts. Our faculty make it a practice to meet with students one-on-one. Our nursing programs consistently exceed expected levels of achievement.
Denver College of Nursing devotes its resources to maintaining quality nursing programs in an environment that focuses on clinical competence across all practice scopes. That helps develop the technical and thinking skills needed to foster successful careers and a lifetime of continued professional learning.
The programs build on general education foundations common to nursing education, and all programs meet or exceed common standards for nursing education programs in Colorado. The nursing programs explore a differentiated practice model that teaches students to maximize their role development, to seek the opportunity to learn and collaborate effectively with other nurses of differing educational preparations.
The programs integrate holistic health care values with traditional health care values so students can explore the understanding of "whole-body wellness" in client care. Programs are offered to adult students from the economically and ethnically diverse regional community served.
The philosophy of Denver College of Nursing flows from the mission of the school. It supports the concepts of clinical competence, excellence in education, holistic care, professionalism, evidence-based practice, and lifelong learning. The philosophy incorporates the conceptual framework developed by faculty to provide direction for the selection and organization of learning experiences to achieve program outcomes. The conceptual framework serves to unite these four constructs:
Nursing is an art and science that identifies, mobilizes, and develops the client's strengths through acquired skill, professionalism, knowledge, and competence supported by evidence-based practice. A person is a unique, physical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and holistic being or community with value, dignity, and worth possessing the capacity for growth, change, and choices for which they bear responsibility.
The environment is the dynamic subtotal of internal and external elements that impact an individual's perception of and adaptation to the community in which they exist. Wellness is defined as the individual's perception of his/her quality of life throughout the lifespan and his/her ability to adapt to restrictions of environment, disease, or disability.
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