Mission
The Community Nursing Organization (CNO) links the community and the School of Nursing. Focusing on the development of innovative nursing and multi disciplinary practice, teaching and scholarship, the organization establishes formal partnerships to address the public's health needs.
The CNO accomplishes its mission by:
• Providing a link between the community and the School of Nursing.
• Developing creative models to prepare students for leadership, practice and scholarship.
• Facilitating practice for needs identified by the community.
• Promoting opportunities for clinical research on the health care needs of vulnerable populations.
Clinical Projects
Carver Health
Promoting Health Carver is a component of Virginia Commonwealth University's far reaching partnership with the Carver neighborhood to support community revitalization. Carver health, a component of this partnership, builds on VCU's successful child Health Linkages project.
The project objectives focus first on Carver children's health. Education, counseling, outreach and support services are essential components of promoting health life-styles. The project integrates the skills and knowledge of faculty, staff and students in VCU's Schools of Nursing, Social work and Dentistry and the Department of Psychology.
The objectives are to:
• Provide health screening and assessment for the people of the Carver community.
• Work with community leaders to identify priorities for services.
• Develop and integrated service model for follow up care and referral, including care coordination.
• Provide health education and counseling to students, parents, mentors, school personnel, and adults within the Carver community.
Support provided by:
• Jessie Ball du Pont Fund
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• US/HUD/COPC
Community Collaboration
For 100 years the School of Nursing has worked with Richmond's neighborhoods and communities. In 1901 Sadie Heath Cabaniss, the School's first director, established the Nurses Settlement House which later became the IVNA (Instructive Visiting Nurses Association). Agnes Dillon Randolph, the first director of the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, established the first course in public health nursing. In 1935 public health nursing became an important course in the St. Philip School of Nursing curriculum.
Today the School of Nursing serves the surrounding communities through its association with community agencies such as Communities in Schools, CHIP of Richmond, the Fan Free Clinic, William Byrd Community House, St. Joseph's Villa, Craig Health Center, Norge Primary Care and many others.
Continuing Education Units
Overview of CEU's
Nursing Continuing Education (CE) at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing offers opportunities for life-long learning to meet the needs for the nursing community in the area of continuing professional education
Continuing nursing education programs are based on the belief that learning is a life long, self-directed process. The Community Nursing Organization (CNO) serves as a catalyst for providing collaborative, accessible, professional, quality continuing education programs that enhance the professional growth and development of local and regional nurses.
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing and the VCU Health System Department of Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing education by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center ’s Commission on Accreditation.
We offer students and faculty the opportunity to practice in partner clinical sites. And make a difference in the lives of people throughout our community. Choose from a variety of continuing nursing education offerings for different credit options:
• Contact Hours – ANCC (American Nurses' Credentialing Center's
Commission on Accreditation) Approved Credit
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) – VCU Approved Credit
• Hours in Pharmacology at the Advanced Practice – Licensure
CEU On-line Forms:
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing/VCU Health System, Department of Education & Professional Development is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Virginia Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses' Credentialing Center's Commission on accreditation.
You may select any of the following forms to fill out, print and either mail or fax to:
VCU School of Nursing/CNO
P.O. Box 980567
Richmond, VA 23298-0567
Fax: (804) 828-7743
CEU Application includes the following forms:
Conference Speaker Forms:
• Speaker Biographical Data Form (page 8 of CEU Application)
• Guidelines for Nursing Hours (page 12 of CEU Application)
• Attendance Roster
Co-Provider Forms:
• Administrative Responsibility Form
• Conflict of Interest Form
• Course Information CNE – Co-provider Agreement Form
• Guidelines for Pharmacology Hours
• Program Schedule Planning Form
Virginia Commonwealth University Continuing Education Forms:
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