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School of Nursing

Admissions and Faculty

Prospective students, includes information regarding undergraduate (BSN) programs and graduate (MEPN, MN, MS, and PhD) programs. Complete list of certificate programs.

Infectious Disease and Infection Control Nursing Certificate, Is designed for nurses with a master's degree or currently enrolled UW graduate students who would like to enhance their knowledge to enable them to face emerging areas of threats to health from infectious diseases or infections.

Faculty Profiles, School of Nursing faculty are dedicated to providing high-quality instruction, clinical supervision, and mentorship to students. Find out more about specific faculty members by visiting their home pages. Faculty pages include email addresses, information about their research, teaching, and clinical experience, as well as a links to their current reasearch project abstracts. Many of the Nursing faculty list international interests including Professors Sue Hegyvary, Marjorie Muecke, Catherine Carr, Josephine Ensign, Basia Belza and Andrea Kovalesky.

Center for Women's Health and Gender Research (CWHGR) The Center for Women's Health Research officially became the Center for Women's Health and Gender Research on September 1, 2004. Margaret Heitkemper, PhD, RN, FAAN, continues as Director. The overall objectives are to continue and to expand our research mission through the two research cores. A new core, Research Development and Partnership Core will focus on developing and expanding collaborations among investigators that study women's health and gender disparities through collaboration between CWHGR and four research-developing institutions: Washington State University; University of Alaska, Anchorage; University of Hawaii, Manoa; and West Virginia University, Charleston.

Short-Term Study Abroad Opportunities

Citizens of the World Program, Country sites: Worldwide. COTW scholars have recently traveled to Uganda, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan. Dean Emeritus Sue T. Hegyvary, established the Citizens of the World program in 1989 with gifts from alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the School to prepare students to practice nursing in the increasingly diverse world of the future. In the past 10 years, over 100 students from the UW School of Nursing have participated in international programs on six continents, experiencing first-hand how health care is delivered in different cultures. Indrani deSaram is coordinator of the Citizens of the World Program. In order to qualify for the program, students must research possible sites, find a local contact, and then submit an application outlining their plan of study and the ways the experience would contribute to their future goals.

Chiang-Mai Program, Professor Marjorie Muecke and Assistant Professor Michael Kennedy, both of the Psychosocial and Community Health department in the School of Nursing teach required second-year BSN courses to 10 UW students in Chiang Mai. Four CMU nursing doctoral candidates are currently studying at the UW School of Nursing as visiting students under the two schools' collaborative agreement.

The R. Hunter Simpson Global Service Learning Fellowship, gives students the opportunity to pursue meaningful service learning and immersion experiences in health care and society in a culture very different from their own. A top priority is international health, but cross-cultural work in this country also qualifies for this support.

The School of Nursing, offers several faculty-led programs abroad. BSN students may apply to spend their senior Autumn Quarter in Thailand or Winter Quarter in Costa Rica with UW SoN faculty members who teach the same required curriculum as offered those quarters in Seattle. Additionally, both graduate and undergraduate students may apply to the short-duration August-September interim program in Guatemala focused on midwifery.

 International Programs Office, Director Sarah Ross

University of Washington, Tacoma

UWT, School of Nursing, Affiliated with the top-ranked University of Washington School of Nursing at the Seattle campus, the Nursing Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma, provides two degree opportunities for registered nurses: a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and a Master of Nursing (MN).

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