Department of Nursing
We extend a warm welcome to you from the Department of Nursing at Oglala Lakota College!
Sarah Coulter-Danner, MSN, CPNP, CNM, Chair-person, Phone
Joan Nelson, MSN, RN, Phone
Michelle L. Bruns, BSN, RN, Phone
Sharon Salisbury-Cordova, BSN, RN, Phone
Carrie Child, BS, Biology, Phone
Wendy Jacobson, MSN, RN, Phone
Nursing is one of the largest health care professions, with over 2.6 million nurses in the United States
today. Our program at Oglala Lakota College leads to an Associate Degree in nursing, and prepares students
to take the N-CLEX exam for licensure to practice in professional nursing. Our program does this in an
environment of academic excellence, which is knowledgeable of existing health care needs of the individual
and/or family. The Associate Degree nurse will be able to respond with relevant knowledge and skills to
meet these health care needs at an entry-level in any structured health care setting. Nursing at the
Associate Degree level, is the human caring process that supports individuals and families in promoting,
maintaining and restoring health and is accomplished within the individual's cultural framework.
Nursing offers a wide variety of opportunities for those who choose to make it a career. Academic degree
programs in nursing are developed to offer participants a career "ladder" approach. You may earn degrees
in sequence with one degree building on the next. Once you have earned the Associate Degree in Nursing,
and become licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse, you may begin to work on a Baccalaureate Degree,
followed by a Master's Degree, and ultimately a Doctoral Degree in Nursing. Nurses with higher degrees
fill jobs with expanding roles and responsibilities, including research, education, leadership, consulting
and administration. You will be exposed to upward mobility opportunities and pathways as you proceed
through this program.
This is an exciting time to be involved in nursing. Throughout the United States, there are opportunities
created for nurses as this country struggles with issues related to equality and quality of life. The U.S.
Department of Labor has identified Registered Nursing as the top occupation in terms of growth through the
year 2012.
Sarah Coulter-Danner, MSN,CPNP,CNM
Department of Nursing Educational Outcomes
The Oglala Lakota College Department of Nursing prepares the Associate Degree Nursing graduate who will:
WOWHOLA-Respect
1. Evaluate the role of culture in shaping the clients values, belief's, lifestyles, and learning styles.
2. Maintain effective communication with the client, family members and members of the health team,
recognizing cultural influences on communication styles.
WOKSAPE-Wisdom
1. Integrate knowledge from the biophysical and social sciences and the humanities into the knowledge base
for sage nursing practice.
2. Evaluate the role of Lakota value systems in promoting, maintaining, and restoring balance/wholeness at
all developmental levels.
3. Provide health information and skills required to facilitate client achievement of function/balance.
WACANTOGNAKA-Generosity
1. Utilize the nursing process as the means to provide care to clients.
2. Perform the technical nursing care skills competently for individual's with common health imbalances
in structured health settings.
3. Provide nursing care to groups of clients in well-defined settings under designated supervision.
WOOHITIKA-Courage
1. Practice and advance within the professional, legal and ethical framework of nursing.
2. Assume continued responsibility and accountability for one's own personal/professional growth.
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