Nursing Major
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About the Major
The nursing program was designed to create a new and progressive generation of nurse leaders by providing students with the knowledge, skills, experiences and global thinking to succeed and thrive in today’s ever-changing health care landscape.
Jobs in Nursing
- Home care nurse
- Nursing administrator
- Operating room nurse
- Public health nurse
- School nurse
Past Elon Nursing Internships
- Alamance Regional Medical Center
- Annie Penn Medical Center
- Duke Medical Center
- Moses Cone Hospital
- Wesley Long Medical Center
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Accelerated nursing student helps save a life—even before getting her degree
As an Elon nursing student, Taylor Mellow wondered how she would respond in those instances when a life is on the line.
On the night of March 13, 2023, she found out.
A member of Elon’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, Mellow reacted quickly and confidently to begin offering CPR to a driver who crashed his SUV in front of Mellow’s Greensboro home after suffering a medical emergency. Medical personnel credited Mellow with helping keep the man alive so he could be transported to the hospital and receive further life-saving care. Her actions that night would earn her the Citizens Certificate of Merit from the Greensboro Police Department.
I feel like it’s solidified the fact that I am meant to be a nurse. This experience showed me that I can do this.
Before finding Elon, Mellow was living in California and searching for a nursing program outside her state, where the number of applications for nursing programs far outpaced the number of seats for future nurses. Elon, which launched its ABSN program in 2021, was the first program to get back to her.
Conversations with the department chair helped assuage concerns about joining a relatively new program, as did the 100 percent passage rate for the inaugural ABSN cohort on national nursing licensure exams. Mellow learned that the program focuses not just on delivering the clinical knowledge and skills future nurses will need but also awareness and insight into the roots of health inequities within the population and pathways to addressing them.
Learning that the program was focused on health equity, “I said, ‘I’m going to go ahead and take this leap of faith,’ and I’m really glad I did.”
Mellow said that when she is a nurse, she knows she will draw on her experience with the man on whom she performed CPR.
“I am proud of myself, but I still have to keep that humility and that sense of being humble,” she said. “This is going to become very normal, and I have to get into that mindset.”
Did You Know?
- The four-year nursing program is built to allow pursuit of a biology minor in addition to all nursing prerequisites, the 65-credit hour nursing curriculum and 540 clinical hours.
- Elon offers an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a 16-month program for students who have already completed an undergraduate degree and want to become highly skilled nurses.
- Nursing students are given invaluable opportunities for interprofessional education, access to state-of-the-art facilities for engaged learning and simulation, and strong community partnerships for clinical placements and future employment.