Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions
The mission of the Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word, through the educational preparation of health professionals. The faculty's goal is to provide excellent student-centered health professions education that will promote leadership development in the respective health disciplines. Faculty believe in collaborative learning promoting a philosophy of life that values the dignity of the individual and serves as a guide for making ethical-moral decisions. The school seeks to graduate health professionals whose practice is rooted in the spiritual heritage of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. Graduates will be prepared as generalist practitioners in their respective disciplines and will be prepared for graduate education.
The Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions offers undergraduate programs in Clinical Research, Community Health Education, Kinesiology, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing, and Rehabilitative Science. In addition, minors are offered in Public Health and Applied Leadership (ROTC only). Each of these programs is described in detail in the following sections under the appropriate program.
NOTE: To provide the student with the most current academic curriculum and to meet accreditation standards, the programs within the School of Nursing and Health Professions use the degree plan and catalog requirements on the date in which the student is admitted to the program and/or major, not the university matriculation date. Students who leave the program and/or major and are re-admitted must follow the degree plan and catalog requirements at the time of re-admission.