Who comes to us
How do you describe someone who comes to the University of Rochester School of Nursing?
Smart
Students here include people with above-average GPA’s, scholastic awards, scholarships, successful business backgrounds, and Masters and PhD degrees.
Skilled
Some arrive with years of clinical experience already. Some arrive having made their marks in totally unrelated fields but want to be nurses or leaders in other areas of health care.
Compassionate
School of Nursing students work with the sick and the elderly, with abused women and injured children, and have been honored for their service to the community, the needy, and the underserved.
Diverse
Students are male and female. Single, married, and with families. Just in their twenties or late in their fifties. They can be Asian, African-American or Hispanic, and come from the U.S. military, the corporate world, the medical community or around the globe. Career backgrounds of students changing careers have included a mathematician, a pianist, a graphic illustrator, a private investigator. Our students have included midwives and ministers, programmers and authors, soldiers and entrepreneurs – and lots of nurses who want to take their careers further.
Focused
Students ready to give total concentration fill the School’s intensive accelerated programs. Students in other programs are no less dedicated. Some pursue degrees while working full time, taking care of a family or both. Others are engaged in research that will make a difference in patients’ lives, even while they earn advanced degrees.
Friendly
Students say the school is open, welcoming and inviting. And graduates say friendships formed with fellow students and faculty at the School of Nursing have become life long.
Enterprising
School of Nursing students have gone on to be award-winning leaders in nursing. But they’ve also gone on to become doctors, authors, scientists, consultants, professors, and entrepreneurs, extending their skills and training to one rewarding new field after another.
Ambitious
People come to the University of Rochester School of Nursing from every sort of background. But they have one thing in common. They want to get the finest health care education possible. And they want it from a school that pushes them to be their best.
Someone Like You
Who comes to the U of R School of Nursing? People who want to be at the top of their field. It’s a community of excellence – with a place waiting for you.
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School of Nursing
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Helen Wood Hall
601 Elmwood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14642
(585) 275-2375
