Welcome

Welcome to the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education, a partnership of Oregon nursing programs dedicated to educating future nurses. Faculty from eight community colleges and Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing have created a shared curriculum taught on all consortium campuses. Through OCNE, students can complete coursework for the Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from OHSU without leaving their home community. Students on community college campuses have the option of completing the associate of applied science degree in nursing and being eligible to sit for the RN licensure exam and/or continuing directly to distance delivered senior level coursework required for the Bachelors degree. The curriculum is an innovative design based on a set of core competencies educating a nurse who can provide care to individuals, families and communities in health promotion, acute or chronic illness and at the end of life. The graduate from an OCNE program is skilled in clinical judgment, culturally appropriate & relationship-centered care, systems thinking & leadership, and evidence-based practice.

Contact OCNE

Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education
3455 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road
Portland, OR 97239-2941
Mail Code: SN-5N
E-mail: info@ocne.org

Upcoming Events
Announcements
  • OCNE Secures FIPSE grant

    A federal grant from the Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE)  http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml has been funded to evaluate the OCNE curriculum. The focus of the FIPSE grant is to look specifically at the implementation and efficacy of the new Clinical Education Redesign Model which was developed by a consortium of nursing school academics, health care agency partners, and staff nurses. The new clinical education model proposes a very different way to provide clinical education to undergraduate nursing students; one which provides a means for scaling student nurse supervision in clinical settings, while not adding to the already stressed resources of staff nurses and clinical faculty, and yet significantly better prepares nursing students to enter clinical practice.