| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public university |
| Dean | Marcia Maurer |
| Location | Edwardsville, IL, U.S. |
| Website | siue.edu/nursing |
SIUE School of Nursing is an academic college of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville located in Edwardsville, Illinois, USA. The School offers educational programs in the Traditional BS Option, the Accelerated BS Option, the RN to BS Option and Graduate Programs including Family Nurse Practitioner, Health Care and Nursing Administration, Nurse Anesthesia and Nurse Educator [1]
In March 2009, led by School of Nursing Dean Marcia Maurer [2], the SIUE School of Nursing expanded its reach, offering a partnership program with Southern Illinois University Carbondale. [3] As part of the partnership, SIUE nursing faculty started teaching classes at Carbondale, while other select classes began being offered via tele-education between the two campuses. SIUE nursing faculty also provide clinical supervision of the nursing students in the Carbondale area.
In 2009 the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education awarded the SIUE School of Nursing a 10-year accreditation, the longest possible, as well as an A+ for its inspiring program [4].
Approximately 85 percent of the SIUE School of Nursing faculty have a doctoral degree and another 10 percent are enrolled in doctoral programs. The faculty has a national and international reputation for scholarship.
The School of Nursing offers several non-degree certificate programs, including professional development sequences (available for graduate students only), school nurse, nursing education, nursing management, oncology nursing and pain management nursing [5].
Offering a state-of-the-art Simulated Learning Center for Health Sciences (SLCHS), SIUE nursing students have access to equipment that supports critical thinking skills and hands-on application of nursing knowledge and skill development in an interactive health care environment. Computers and other electronic enhancements optimize faculty assessment and mentoring of students as they learn complex nursing care in a safe, friendly and realistic environment [6].
A pilot program conceived by Dean Maurer during her time as a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow [7], and launched by Maurer and the late Lorraine Williams, SIUE associate professor in fall 2007, the Student Nurse Achievement Program (SNAP) is a program unique to the SIUE School of Nursing. Through a five-year road to success program, SNAP gives Metro East students from disadvantaged backgrounds the tools they will need to realize their full potential in the field of nursing and life [8].
Other notable achievements by faculty from the School of Nursing include the receipt of $4 million of a $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to participate in the National Children's Study by Louise Flick, professor of family health and community health nursing. Flick's $4 million award is the largest grant that has ever been awarded to a faculty member at SIUE. The National Children's Study will follow a representative sample of 100,000 children from before birth to age 21. The study will gather information to prevent and treat some of the nation's most pressing health problems, including autism, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity [9].
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