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Facts about the School of Nursing 2006-2007
Partnerships for Excellence in Education, Research and Service
Did you know …
The
School of Nursing (SoN) was established in 1969 as a component
of The University of Texas System
School of Nursing. In 1976 the
System School was dissolved, and the SoN became a component of
the
UTHSCSA campus
where it is physically located.
More
than 7,600 alumni have received degrees
since 1969.
In
addressing the national nursing and faculty shortage, the SoN
admits
two new classes of undergraduate
and graduate students per
year. The Fall 2007 student body consists
of 662 students making
our SoN the largest single
campus nursing school in Texas:
421
undergraduate students
219
masters students
22
PhD students
54%
of the undergraduate students are from a minority population:
31% Hispanic;
7% African American; 8% Asian and 8% other. The Health Science Center is
a Federally
Designated Hispanic Serving Institution.
62
% of the SoN’s $11 million budget is state appropriated. The remaining
38.7% comes from educational
funded programs; grant awards; foundations;
corporations; endowment interest; gifts; and faculty practice.
Our
School is the only PhD granting School of
Nursing in South Texas.
The
Master’s degree program is nationally ranked 26th in U.S. News & World
Report. The school offers
7 graduate (MSN)
majors: Nursing Administration in Community and Health Care Systems;
Family Nurse
Practitioner; Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Gerontological
Nurse Practitioner; Medical-Surgical Nursing;
Adult Psychiatric Mental Health
Nurse Practitioner; Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner;
and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner.
Over
$6 million in uncompensated health care services were provided
by our undergraduate and graduate
nursing students to the community in 2006-2007. Over 200
community facilities/agencies are used for
student clinical experiences each year.
The
97-member nursing faculty is organized into three departments: Acute, Chronic,
and Family Nursing
Care.
With
13, the School of Nursing has more Fellows of the American Academy
of Nursing (FAAN), the highest
honororific society in the nursing profession, than
any other UT System School.
The
School is ranked 32 nd nationally in NIH funding. Faculty research
interest include domestic violence
prevention, weight management in culturally diverse
groups, health promotion in vulnerable children and
families, pain and problem
behaviors in the cognitively impaired, teen tobacco cessation,
aging in addition
to many other areas of investigation.
The
School has established three centers for research,
practice, and evaluation:
The
Academic Center for Evidence-Based Nursing
MESA
Center for Health Care Disparities
The
Center for Community Based Health Promotion in Women and Children.
In
September 2006, the Student Health Center moved to the School of
Nursing . This center is a
partnership between the UTHSCSA School of Nursing and
School of Allied Health . Our Nurse Practitioner
and a Physician’s
Assistant provide clinical care and both are dedicated to providing
quality health care
and preventive care to all UTHSCSA students.