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What is Adult Health Nursing?

The mission of the Adult Health Nursing Department is to contribute to the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education of professional nurses, as well as the education of non-nursing students, focusing on health and illness issues of adults.

The following health and illness issues of adults have been identified as areas of emphasis:

• Addictive processes
• Adult development
• Adult social relations
• Application of theory and research
• Critical care
• Diagnostics
• Gerontology
• Group theory and application
• Health promotion
• Health within illness
• Independent and collaborative nursing interventions
• Life transitions and health
• Mental health of adults
• Nutrition and metabolism
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Psychopathology
• Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation issues
• Rural health
• Sexual health
• Sociocultural issues
• Spirituality
• Women's and men's health

The department's mission is fulfilled through teaching, advising, service, and scholarship. Goals are to:

• help students learn theory and practice integral to health promotion, disease prevention, and holistic nursing care of adults as individuals and as members of families and communities
• contribute to advances in the discipline of nursing
• provide nursing and health care expertise to the community through faculty practice, faculty-student collaboration, and other contributions.

Faculty emphasize students' abilities to think critically and seeks to enhance the personal and professional development of students and faculty.

Questions? Contact Sheila Smith at smithsk@uwec.edu or phone 715-836-3725.