Excellence in Nursing Education: Our Programs Receive U.S. News & World Report Recognition
Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders in Health Care
The School of Nursing remains at the forefront of educating baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral students to act as leaders, change agents, and problem solvers in the 21st-century health care system. Our students learn to incorporate simulation and technology into their practice, provide evidence-based care and prevention, and advance nursing science through active research programs.
Our students are leading the way with a focus on the patient experience, while Felician enhances our student experience. Felician School of Nursing has a 100% passing rate on MSN AGNP, 80.4% on MSN FNP, and 100% on both Post-Master’s certifications in FNP and AGNP. University partnerships provide job and internship placements at leading healthcare systems, such as Atlantic Health System, Hackensack Meridian Healthcare, Valley Healthcare, RWJ/Barnabas System, Holy Name, Saint Josephs, and Christian Healthcare. Approximately 50% of the graduated seniors are employed by the clinical agency in which they completed their Senior Immersion.
The School of Nursing is a community of ethical, caring, and compassionate faculty and students. We nurture resilient leaders who are passionate about their values and advocacy role in caring for patients, families, and communities while working in a complex global healthcare environment. We also value our students’ well-being and school/life balance, as it sets the stage for healthy and happy nurses!
SON Goals
The School of Nursing Goals:
– Create, with intentionality, a caring, diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment that is responsive to individual learning needs and is based on the principles of social justice and human rights.
– Use informatics, and information and communication technology ethically to support safe, high-quality, equitable healthcare processes to positively impact healthcare outcomes.
– Develop students’ core (leveled) disciplinary nursing knowledge, grounded in liberal education, integrating current evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences as the basis for clinical judgement.
– Facilitate ongoing professional identity development for academic mobility and career advancement.
– Develop and maintain academic-practice partnerships that ensure students’ clinical preparation and competency in healthcare delivery in the four spheres of care across the lifespan.
– Contribute to the improvement of access and care quality for the vulnerable, underrepresented, and medically underserved through the provision of healthcare for individuals, families, and populations across a variety of settings.
– Advocate for the profession of nursing from a global perspective.
– Foster student preparation for systems-based practice in complex systems of care. – Advance the Scholarship of Nursing.
