The College offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) for traditional students and a 14-month accelerated BSN partnership program for college graduates. The BSN curriculum prepares the professional nurse through extensive study in the concepts and skills of patient assessment, patient care management, and evaluation of patient care outcomes and the impact of ethical, legal and technological strategies. Traditional program students begin the nursing major after completion of required college level prerequisite courses. Accelerated partnership students must have an earned non-nursing baccalaureate degree and complete college level prerequisite courses.
The College offers a Master of Science (MS), Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with a major in nursing. The MS program has four nurse practitioner options. The NP options provide nurses with advanced preparation as adult nurse practitioners (ANP), family nurse practitioners (FNP), acute care nurse practitioners or adult psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNP). The NP focus is the nurse as a primary care provider knowledgeable about health assessment, primary prevention, health maintenance, and illness management.
In keeping with the introduction of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice as the terminal degree for advanced practice nursing, The University of Arizona College of Nursing has revised its graduate program offerings. Fall Term 2008 will mark the last time to enter the Master of Science degree program with a nurse practitioner option.
Thereafter, nurses interested in advance practice nursing preparation will apply for admission to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.
The "First in Arizona" Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) prepares the nurse at the highest level of advanced nursing practice. The DNP is similiar to other practice doctorates such as the MD, JD, PTD and Pharm D. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has called for the adoption by 2015 of the DNP as the terminal nursing practicce degree.
The state-of-the-art PhD Program is designed to prepare scientists to conduct theory-based research in nursing, to engage in scholarly dialogue, and to contribute to the development of nursing knowledge. The doctoral program curriculum is designed as a full time, three-year, 64 credit post-master’s program, or a full time, four-year, 79 credit post-baccalaureate program. The program provides a learning matrix of course work, collegial relationships, community networks, mentored research, and collaboration in scholarship.
U.S. News & World Report (2007) ranked the College of Nursing’s graduate programs among the top 6% in the United States.
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