Nursing Department

Assistant Professors: Jennifer Cooper (chair), Evelyn Nieves, Sandra Thomas-Lalmansingh

Hood College offers a Bachelor of Science in nursing designed to educate students to become safe nursing practitioners and to prepare them to take the NCLEX examination. The program provides basic nursing education along with the required competencies for nursing in today's health care environment. With a curriculum grounded in the liberal arts, natural sciences and nursing courses focusing on leadership, research and evidence-based practice, critical thinking, nursing theory and communication, students are well prepared to enter the field of nursing. Nursing students must also meet all requirements of the Hood College Core Curriculum. 

Undergraduate Programs Offered:

• Nursing (BSN) - Hood College offers a Bachelor of Science in nursing designed to educate students to become safe and competent nurses and to prepare them to take the NCLEX RN licensure examination. With a curriculum grounded in the liberal arts, natural sciences and nursing courses focusing on nursing care across the lifespan, leadership, research and evidence-based practice and informatics, students are well-prepared to enter the field of nursing. Nursing students must also meet all requirements of the Hood College Core Curriculum.
• Public Health (B.A.) - Hood College offers a Bachelor of Arts in public health with an interdisciplinary curriculum and specialized courses, which allow students to secure careers in health professions and address emerging global challenges. Foundation courses engage students in a rich liberal arts studies experience while meeting the Core Curriculum requirements. The capstone field practicum (internship) supports majors in the application of public health knowledge in a professional, community-based agency setting to foster and develop their concentrations/specialty areas within public health. Students are equipped to deliver essential services, contribute to the workforce, and achieve health equity.

• Nursing (M.S.N.) - Hood College offers a Master of Science in Nursing with three areas of concentration: healthcare leadership, education and adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner.
• Nutrition (M.S.) - Hood offers a Master of Science in nutrition with two areas of concentration; a general nutrition track and a dietetics track. The nutrition science track is designed to help prepare students for evidence-based advanced practice, perfect for registered dietitians who wish to enhance their credentials. The dietetics track under the nutrition science M.S. program is designed to provide you with the advanced education and supervised experiential learning experience for eligibility to take the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) examination to become a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN). The curriculum is based upon the competencies established by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND), the largest organization of nutrition and dietetics professionals in the world.