The innovative partnership between Lawrence Tech and Ascension Michigan is designed to prepare nurses to meet the demands of the changing healthcare landscape. Students receive LTU’s signature “Theory and Practice” education and benefit from Ascension Michigan’s promise of compassionate, personalized care for all.
Students will rotate though the six Ascension Michigan hospital locations for a varied, professional experience without the loss in productivity that occurs when they have to navigate different healthcare systems. The rigorous, evidence-based curriculum, taught by healthcare professionals working in a real-world setting, incorporates an active collaborative approach to learning.
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Mission
To develop innovative professional nursing leaders who are compassionate and caring healers dedicated to transforming healthcare through the art of nursing, research, theory, practice, technology, and community engagement.
The 2,400 square-foot laboratory includes a simulated intensive care unit hospital room that will have all equipment found normally found in the hospital setting-oxygen, suction, monitors-all surrounding a hospital bed.
Why LTU for Nursing?
- Qualified applicants begin nursing courses from day one
- Cohort of 48 students starts each fall semester
- Six Ascension Michigan hospital locations for clinical rotations with 200 outpatient settings
- Ascension Michigan employees are eligible for the system’s RN loan forgiveness program
- Practicing faculty teaching theory and clinical courses
- State of the art simulation lab
- Preparation for the NCLEX-RN state licensure exams
- 126 credits, over a four-year, 11 consecutive-semester cohort plan of study
- Ranked 22 in Michigan of 79 state nursing programs, 2019 and 2020
- Unique, academic-practice partnership between LTU and the Ascension Michigan
- Introductory scholarships available
- Students receive a personal computer loaded with health-care software
- Multidisciplinary, inter-professional simulation experiences
- Access to the libraries of both LTU and Ascension Michigan
- BSN program works with your schedule: athletes have a mean GPA of 3.4 with 100% retention.
- Member of Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system
- Six hospitals and more than 200 medical facilities offering comprehensive prevention, primary care, and advanced treatment programs
- On the 2016 “Health Care’s Most Wired” list of systems ensuring patient privacy and boosting capabilities in telehealth and population health (Hospital and Health Networks, 2016)
- National recognition and Centers of Excellence across all six hospitals
About Ascension Michigan
Ascension Michigan is one the largest providers of inpatient care in southeast Michigan. Ascension Michigan provides comprehensive prevention, primary care and advanced treatment programs with more than 250 medical centers and 15 hospitals spanning five counties. Ascension Michigan Foundations coordinates fundraising for the health system, its entities and programs, and offers ways to support medical excellence and the future health of the community. Ascension Michigan is a ministry of Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system.Participating Hospitals
- Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit
- Ascension River District Hospital, East China Township
- Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Warren Campus
- Ascension Brighton Center for Recovery
- Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights Campus
- Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus, Novi Campus
Professional Licensure and Certification
As a part of the NC-Sara Reciprocity agreement, Lawrence Technological University is required to disclose publicly, the educational requirements for professions that require a license or certification to practice in that field*. This disclosure is not affected by the method of delivery of the program: online, on ground or hybrid. The full list of programs and certificates and their satisfaction of requirements can be found in the table listed below and on each individual college website.
Current and prospective students are encouraged to contact the licensing board of the state or territory in which they wish to practice post-graduation for further information and possible additional requirements. State board links may be accessed through the link provided in the table to the various professional associations. The table below is a good faith effort to provide the most current information on Lawrence Technological University programs and their status with regards to individual state requirements. This table should not be viewed as a guarantee of licensure in a particular state as requirements subject to change by each individual state and territory.
*“Professional Licensure” or “Licensure” means: A process of state or other governmental entities that establishes standards of practice and gives legal permission to practice a profession by providing licenses or certifications to individuals who meet those standards. “NC-Sara Policy Manual, June 27, 2022. Volume 22.1
NC-Sara Professional Licensure - Nursing [PDF]
There are additional requirements to become licensed in Alabama.
Nursing Program Outcomes
- Integrate knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science.
- Implement the principles of relationship-based care into patient centered, individualized care imparted within a caring and healing environment.
- Demonstrate health promotion and disease prevention strategies across diverse settings, lifespan, and vulnerable populations to address health disparities and population health.
- Formulate plans of care designed within the frameworks of clinical reasoning, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
- Utilize information management and technology to ensure safe, effective, and high quality care.
- Employ interprofessional collaboration and leadership strategies to improve outcomes for individuals, communities, and systems.
- Value professional nursing practice reflective of the scope and standards of nursing practice and the code of ethics.
- Examine the impact of policy, finance, and regulatory environments on healthcare.
Philosophy
The philosophy of the nursing program is to embrace and cultivate LTU’s motto of theory and practice. Through scientific inquiry, students operationalize theoretical constructs and concepts into professional practice settings. Innovative project-based, problem-based, and active collaborative learning strategies permeate the pedagogy for teaching and learning. The Ascension Michigan and LTU’s core value of integrity serves as an integral component to create a caring and healing environment across diverse settings for students, patients, families, and the community.
Welcome from the Director
We are pleased to offer this academic practice partnership between Lawrence Technological University (LTU) and Ascension Michigan for a Bachelor in Science (BSN) degree in nursing. Once admitted, you will be joining the profession of nursing, which has been ranked the “most honest and ethical” profession for seventeen consecutive years. As an associate of Ascension Michigan since 1981 and a professor in higher learning since 1988, I am extremely blessed to part of this partnership and profession. As the nursing program grows, I will continue to be clinically active, as an acute care nurse practitioner, to ensure you are provided with the most current, relevant, and state of the art nursing program.
The program at LTU-Ascension is competitive and unique for several reasons. One, it is competitive with its 126 credit plan of study; yet unique in that the program is offered in 11 consecutive semesters, which allows students to obtain a BSN in four years, not five. Unlike many other universities, the program has nursing classes that start in the first semester. The academic practice partnership is also unique in the Detroit Tri-County area showcasing the partnership’s commitment to excellence in education and improvement in health outcomes. Clinical experiences will range from prevention and primary care to high acuity settings across six Ascension hospitals and outpatient settings. You will have access to three nursing simulation labs, one on the LTU campus and others at Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield campus.
We wish you all the very best as you review our webpage, attend open houses, as well as communicate with staff, faculty, and administrators.
With highest regards,
M. Therese Jamison DNP, ACNP-BC
Director of Nursing/Professor of Nursing
College of Arts and Sciences
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- Join the profession the public views as the most honest and ethical of all (Gallup poll).
- The demand for BSN-prepared registered nurses (RNs) is growing and will continue to grow.
- The Institute of Medicine calls for 80 percent of nurses to be BSN-prepared by 2020.
- A survey of 461 schools of nursing conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing found that 45.1 percent of hospitals and other healthcare settings required new hires to have a BSN while 79.6 percent of employers expressed a strong preference for BSN graduates.
- A 2013 survey conducted by the Michigan Center for Nursing indicates that only 48.8 percent of active RNs in southeast Michigan have a bachelor’s degree or higher in nursing.
Careers
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Labor Statistics , Registered Nurses have a median hourly wage of $ 36.22 and an annual median pay of $ 75,330 .
Nursing leads the top 50 "High Demand, High Wage" careers in Michigan with protected annual job openings of 6,650 and a job growth rate of 13.5% from 2016 to 2026.
The innovative partnership between Lawrence Tech and Ascension Michigan is designed to prepare nurses to meet the demands of the changing healthcare landscape. Students receive LTU's signature "Theory and Practice" education and benefit from Ascension Michigan’s promise of compassionate, personalized care for all.