Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Linda McCauley, PhD, FAAN, RN, Dean
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has 210 bachelor’s, 163 master’s, and 16 doctoral students.
Bachelor’s degree graduates go on to become national and international leaders in patient care, public health, government, and education. Master’s degree graduates are qualified to seek certification as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and/or clinical nurse specialists. The PhD program focuses on clinical research, with emphasis on health policy, health outcomes, and ethics.
The school offers a dual-degree undergraduate program with several colleges and a dual-degree master’s program with the Rollins School of Public Health. Beginning in summer 2010, the school will offer an accelerated BSN/MSN program for students with degrees in other fields who want to serve the community as advanced practice nurses.
In fiscal year 2009, the school received $2.4 million in research funding. U.S. News & World Report ranked the school’s graduate programs 26th overall and its nurse midwifery graduate program eighth in the nation. Major programs within the school include the Fuld Fellowship, targeting second-career students with interest in serving vulnerable populations; the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing; and the Center for Research on Maternal and Newborn Survival.
The nursing school has 58 faculty, and students can learn from adjunct faculty at some 300 clinical sites. Learning sites include an alternative spring break in three countries and a multiuniversity, multidisciplinary collaborative summer program with Georgia migrant farmworkers. The school has 6,300 alumni.
