Category Archives: Academics

  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

  UCF was one of the first 10 schools nationwide to receive funding from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, which is helping Second Degree BSN nursing students change careers to pursue their passion.    From a dolphin trainer to a marketing director, their prior careers are diverse. But now these six students have two things in common.   The undergraduate nursing students are returning to school […]

“The greatest good to society is to serve those with the least,” says Assistant Professor Michael Valenti, a mental health nursing provider, researcher and current president of the board of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Florida Chapter. In his Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing course, Valenti prepares undergraduate nursing students to care for people of all ages […]

For her Honors Undergraduate Thesis, Chantelle Garcia Medina ’20BSN sought to make a lasting difference in the lives of underserved patients in Peru – by focusing on the health of the youngest generation. Her work will continue to make an impact after graduation. In 2019, Garcia was part of an interdisciplinary group of UCF students […]

New Reports Rank College for Excellence in Online, Undergraduate and Graduate Programs UCF is once again ranked among the top nursing programs in the U.S. for its online, undergraduate and graduate degree programs, according to three new reports. Best Online Programs For the seventh year in a row, U.S. News & World Report ranks the […]

The grant will provide scholarships for UCF graduate nurse practitioner students and expand academic-practice partnerships in Central Florida. Read More

By Gene Kruckemyer ’73 Emergency management, nonprofit management and counselor education among the top programs included in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 guide to the Best Graduate Schools. Twenty-seven UCF programs were nationally ranked today in the top 100 of their fields by U.S. News & World Report, and 35 graduate programs total were included […]