UNDERGRADUATE NURSING
Our nursing undergraduate program has continued to receive accreditation from the American Academy National League for Nursing and from the State Board of Pennsylvania since its inception in 1966. We are proud of our program and faculty, and especially pleased with our students who are very active participants in their education. Students may complete the nursing program on either a full-time or part-time basis. The opportunity for evening classes and evening and/or weekend options are available.
Admission Requirements
Freshman Admission: SAT > 900 and HS GPA > 2.75Transfer Admission: Admission is competitive with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
Freshman and Sophomore Years of Study
The nursing curriculum for the full time day option is systematically structured, introducing first year students to the discipline of nursing as a profession. In the second year, students are introduced to the individual as a client with social, cultural, spiritual and economic elements that interact to facilitate health. Selected basic therapeutic nursing interventions with supervised on-campus laboratory experiences are taught.Junior and Senior Years of Study
In the junior year, students have scheduled clinical practice two days per week; in the senior year, clinical practice is scheduled three days per week. Community based experiences take place in various settings, including a mobile healthcare van, a senior citizens' apartment complex, adult day care centers, schools, and clients' homes.
Both urban, teaching hospitals and community hospitals provide the setting for rotations in adult acute care. Pediatric rotations are at large facilities designed for the specific care of children. Maternal child nursing rotations include a variety of settings and experiences in labor and delivery, postpartum, and nursery.
Psychiatric clinical rotations include both outpatient and inpatient units. The ratio of faculty to clinical students is 1:8 in most rotations. The final clinical rotation is a three week precepted experience in a specialty area and agency of the student's choice.
RN/BSN/MSN OptionAn accelerated RN/BSN//MSN option is offered for matriculated RN students that allows them to begin their graduate studies while earning the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The RN who has been provisionally accepted into the program is permitted to take four graduate courses.
These courses will be applied to the Master of Science in Nursing degree once the student is formally admitted to the graduate program. Six programs leading to a Master of Science in Nursing degree are available: Adult Health Nursing, Community-Based Nursing, Emergency/Critical Care Nursing, Nurse Educator (in one of previous specialties) Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, and Family Nurse Practitioner.
Widener University
One University Place
Chester, PA 19013
Assistant Dean
Dr. Lynne Borucki
tel: 610-499-4210
lcborucki@widener.edu Transfer & RN/BSN Students
Dr. Mary Ellen Santucci
tel: 610-499-4227
mgsantucci@widener.edu
ACCREDITATION
National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (formerly the National League for Nursing[NLN]) since April 1972.
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) initial accreditation granted to baccalaureate and master degree programs, April 2007.
Approved by the State Board of Nurse Examiners of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The School's chapter (Eta Beta) of Sigma Theta Tau International, the Nursing Honor Society, was chartered on October 14, 1984.
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