Campbell University in North Carolina officially welcomes its inaugural cohort of 46 students in the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing for the 2016-2017 academic year. This is a historic event for Campbell University after the program grew out of the state’s and region’s need for health professionals. The new nursing class will help advance Campbell’s mission to prepare servant leaders who make an immediate impact in the communities where they live.
Nursing classes will begin in the newly opened Tracey F. Smith Hall of Nursing & Health Sciences, located on Campbell’s Health Sciences Campus. The new facility is a 72,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art teaching facility designed for collaborative learning and team building while allowing students to experience the challenges and rewards of healthcare in a psychologically-safe environment.
Dr. Nancy Duffy, director of Campbell Nursing, says she is thrilled to throw away the idea of the three-hour lecture block and instead engage students in learning teams with active teaching strategies. Unlike most majors in university systems, Campbell Nursing won’t enroll students until they are juniors or have met all program requirements and fulfilled all program prerequisites. This is to ensure that nursing students have completed the general core curriculum so that they can focus on a rigorous nursing curriculum involving patient care and clinical experience during their junior and senior years.
Campbell doesn’t enroll everyone who completes the nurse requirements either. Students must apply for admission to Campbell Nursing, a process that includes a competitive, holistic application, in addition to interviewing with faculty members and writing a person essay. The school will accept a maximum of 50 students per academic year.
First-year and sophomore students interested in nursing can pursue a pre-nursing track, which the university started offering in 2014. It’s one of the most popular areas of study for incoming students and the new class includes 101 pre-nursing students.
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