University of Virginia School of Nursing
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1901 |
| Dean | Dorrie K. Fontaine |
| Students | 681 |
| Location |
Charlottesville, VA, USA 38°01′53″N 78°29′56″W / 38.03139°N 78.49889°WCoordinates: 38°01′53″N 78°29′56″W / 38.03139°N 78.49889°W |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | http://www.nursing.virginia.edu/ |
The University of Virginia School of Nursing, established in 1901, is a world-renowned school of nursing education. For more than one hundred years, it has been at the forefront of nursing education, service, and research. It has an enrollment of approximately 681 undergraduate and graduate students, and is consistently rated in the top 5% of Nursing schools in the United States. The dean of the nursing school is Dorrie K. Fontaine.
The School of Nursing was founded in 1901. In 1928, the first baccalaureate nursing program in the South began at the University of Virginia. Men were first admitted in the 1960s. The first nursing PhD program offered in Virginia began at the School of Nursing in 1982, and in 2008, it became the first facility in Virginia to offer a DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) degree- the terminal degree for nursing clinicians.
The School of Nursing offers a variety of options for attaining a nursing degree.
Undergraduate
Graduate
The School of Nursing is a member of the Council of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree programs of the National League for Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing of the Southern Regional Education Board. The school is nationally accredited, and approved by the Virginia State Board of Nursing.[1] The School of Nursing is also the sole American nursing school to participate in Universitas 21, with exchange and research programs set up with the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
The School of Nursing has become a national leader in rural health care research. It is the first and only school of nursing in the country to be funded by the National Institute for Mental Health to create a Center in rural mental health–-the Southeastern Rural Mental Health Research Center. It is also home to the National Institute of Health-funded Rural Health Care Research Center. Faculty and students volunteer in the yearly Remote Area Medical Health Clinic in Wise, Virginia, a free emergency medicine clinic that sees thousands of patients a day for three days every July.
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