UCF College of Nursing

  UCF’s clinical leaders, including College of Nursing Dean Mary Lou Sole, gathered Monday to give the community a simple message: Get your flu shot. And then they rolled up their sleeves and were vaccinated at a new mobile flu shot golf cart that’s making the rounds on campus to protect even more people from […]

For the fifth time, UCF has been named among the nation’s most innovative schools by U.S. News & World Report, which unveiled its 2021 Best Colleges Rankings Monday. Read More  

Telehealth, virtual reality, and using simulation to address healthcare disparities are among the topics being discussed at events this week hosted by the UCF College of Nursing. To increase awareness of the importance of simulation in healthcare, UCF College of Nursing is joining the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and an international community of simulation […]

  At the 2020 Virtual White Coat Ceremony, UCF College of Nursing welcomed nearly 300 new BSN students into the healthcare profession. Today’s virtual celebration does not lessen its significance. The White Coat Ceremony is an important event in your journey to become a nurse and for the future patients you will serve. Leslee D’Amato-Kubiet, […]

Inspired to fulfill her mother’s dream, Loida Guillén Strong ’20DNP pursued a doctorate in nursing without telling her until she earned her diploma this summer.   Read More on UCF Today   More on this heartwarming story: USA TODAY   Telemundo   Univision Watch on Univision     Orlando Sentinel Central Florida 100: Beverly Seay, chair, UCF […]

  With a team of faculty experts and a commitment to safety, a group of first-semester Second Degree BSN students finally had the chance to demonstrate skills they’ve learned online in real life.   Read More

  As a PhD student and teaching assistant at UCF’s College of Nursing, Valorie MacKenna solved an important problem when the pandemic hit. How to move hands-on simulation classes online. 90.7 WMFE spoke with MacKenna, who graduated this past weekend, about what that virtual education looked like and whether it’s the future of healthcare instruction. […]

Reflecting growing national demand for nurse practitioners and nursing faculty, UCF College of Nursing will graduate the most total Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and PhD students in its history this weekend.   It’s a fact. Nurses with the highest level of degree are in high demand. Nursing, like many other healthcare professions, is moving […]

While the pandemic canceled study abroad trips this spring, global health education continued for UCF nursing students thanks to innovative instructors.     Under the guidance of interpreters and two faculty members, a group of 10 undergraduate nursing students practiced how to provide pre-, intra- and post-operative care to medically underserved patients in rural Peru. It is what the students would have […]

  Having recently earned international accreditation for its nursing simulation program, UCF is a living example of how we can take healthcare from here to the future.   Read More