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The School of Nursing Has a New Dean!

About the School of Nursing

The University of Portland School of Nursing has a proud 70-year history of educating outstanding nurses. Nationally, the University of Portland School of Nursing is recognized as a trend-setter and leader in nursing education. Our faculty has a passion for teaching and a vision for a transformed health care system of the future. We are aware of the dynamic nature of health care and the knowledge explosion in the health sciences and keep current with the expanding knowledge of nursing. We believe that a broad, well-rounded liberal arts education best prepares students for the dynamic and constantly changing nursing profession. We pride ourselves on being on the cutting edge of nursing education as we prepare entry-into-practice and advanced nurses who will make a difference in the quality of health care.

Our school has undergraduate and graduate programs to respond to the needs of nurses at various stages of their careers. The important distinction about the University of Portland is that here undergraduate nursing students are very much a part of the University.  We have a cutting-edge master's entry program (AEM-UP) that enables individuals who possess a non-nursing bachelor's degree to efficiently enter nursing at the graduate level. Likewise, in collaboration with our practice partners, we have implemented the new Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Master of Science degree program, which prepares generalists for leadership at the point of care. Furthermore, we are responding to the national movement for advanced practice nurses to be prepared at the doctoral level by beginning a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in Summer 2008.

We are committed to a culture of excellence and a sense of community where people thrive in their learning, teaching and working. 

Joanne Warner,
Dean, School of Nursing