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Project Background:

Redesigning Nursing Education to Address the Challenges and Opportunities of Population Health
In January 2015, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – New Jersey Nursing Initiative awarded the Department of Nursing at TCNJ a planning grant—entitled, Redesigning Nursing Education to Address the Challenges and Opportunities of Population Health—that enabled us to identify the major strengths and opportunities within our BSN curriculum.

Strengths

  • Substantial history in building and sustaining successful academic-practice partnerships
  • Stellar reputation for community and civic engagement
    • Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching—a distinction shared by only about eight percent of colleges and universities nationwide
  • Students aware of social determinants of health, available community resources, and need to view health from a broad perspective
    • students are directly exposed to issues of poverty, unemployment, housing, lack of education, disparities and inequities, and the safety-net organizations/agencies in place to address those trapped in the negative end of these social determinants of health
  • Strong program of experiential learning and teamwork
    • simulation with both high fidelity and standardized patients
    • transformational “4th-hour” devoted to experiential reinforce of each course’s content
      • avenue in which new content and skills can be easily added to the nursing curriculum
  • Professional role development within the curriculum
    • three courses (12 credits) devoted to professional roles of learner, clinician and leader (Benner, 2010)
  • Well-prepared, seasoned faculty that excels in teamwork and collaboration, and embraces innovation

Opportunities

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TCNJ's Department of Nursing is not accepting transfers into our four year traditional bachelor’s of science in nursing program at this time. We are accepting applications for the ABSN program for May 2025.Learn More
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