The Traditional undergraduate program is designed for beginning students of nursing, including high school graduates, transfer students, and change-of-major students. The School of Nursing is known across the nation as a highly rigorous, academically demanding, and clinically excellent program for the preparation of new nurses.
The curriculum is an innovative residency format, which maintains high educational standards while focusing the senior year on a clinical immersion experience that will prepare graduates to enter their nursing careers a step ahead of many other nursing graduates.
The Nurse Residency program requires 122 credits for completion and is set up as follows.
- Freshman Experience: Introduction to the profession and clinical skills with essential science and liberal arts courses.
- Sophomore Experience : Development of clinical skills and decision making in nursing through simulation and laboratory experiences.
- Junior Experience: Expansion of nursing knowledge into essential and specialty clinical nursing with associated field experiences.
- Senior Experience: Clinical immersion and enhancement of nursing knowledge for entry into practice.
This sequential curricular development will allow students to build a solid foundation for nursing practice. To support the pre-senior year, a state-of-the-art clinical simulation laboratory and resource center has been created. Students pursue independent and collaborative coursework in the nursing laboratories.
The faculty are committed to providing the highest caliber nursing education possible. The innovative curricular design, laboratory resources, and dynamic faculty provide students with the best educational program.
For Program Information and Simulation Lab Tours please contact Pat Grim, Assistant to the Director, at (302) 831-1117 or spring@udel.edu.
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