The
nursing program at Rutgers–Camden is committed to
meeting
its threefold mission of education, research, and
service
in southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley.
Our program
has been preparing nursing students for
baccalaureate-level
professional practice for more than 35 years. Graduate
programs will soon
be launched.
The nursing
faculty at Rutgers–Camden are award-winning
teachers,
scientists, and clinicians. They believe that
education
for professional nursing is best accomplished in
a university
setting, where a spirit of inquiry, the
excitement of
discovery, and creative and critical thinking
flourish.
Within such settings, the future nurse can best
reach his or her individual potential and gain an
appreciation of
the multifaceted roles and functions of nursing
within
society.
At
Rutgers–Camden, courses in the natural and social
sciences,
arts, and
humanities are integrated with the study of nursing
throughout
a four-year program. Students learn to appreciate
each
patient as an individual with biological,
psychological,
social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Nursing
courses
begin in the first year of the program. Students are
prepared
for professional nursing practice as clinicians,
health
teachers, managers, and leaders. Future pursuit of
advanced
nursing education in clinical practice, research,
education,
and/or administration is assumed. Our graduates are
leaders
in nursing and health care throughout the Delaware
Valley
and beyond.