The School of Nursing offers

  • career-oriented education and outcomes
  • pre-licensure preparation
  • graduate nursing education  in a variety of specialties

In all of our innovative programs, students obtain a breadth of complex healthcare knowledge, clinical reasoning skills, and technological expertise that enable them to deliver high-quality population-oriented healthcare from prevention to end of life. Our nurses complete our program prepared as population health experts in a variety of clinical settings.

Graduate and doctoral students in practice and research work closely with individual faculty to gain in-depth clinical specialty knowledge or research expertise in several specialty areas, including aging, mental health, community engagement and health disparities, and symptom and data science.

EXPLORE OUR PROGRAMS

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master's degree program in nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice program and post graduate APRN certificate program at the University of Delaware are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).

Why choose University of Delaware's School Nursing?: youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oIuyrkPiA

Our Impact in Numbers

OUR RESEARCH

 

Interdisciplinary research in the School of Nursing focuses on aging, symptom science and healthcare innovations including technology and big data analysis. External funding from NIH and other R01-level funded grants put our faculty on the forefront of the science behind healthcare’s toughest challenges.

 

Nursing Simulation Labs in McDowell 105 and 121.

UD's Center for Simulation Innovation Interdisciplinary Education and Entrepreneurship: youtube.com/watch?v=O4c91kH9Lao

SIMULATION

 

The UD Center for Simulation Innovation, Interdisciplinary Education, and Entrepreneurship is a cornerstone of the School of Nursing experience. Innovative programs and state-of-the-art facilities enrich the learning environment for our students, giving them a deeper understanding of patient care. 

 

CLINICAL CARE

 

UD Health’s Nurse Managed Primary Care Center provides a wide range of healthcare services for adults, and gives students the opportunity to put classroom theory into practice.

Nurse Practitioners at the Nurse Managed Health Center (NMHC) working with patients and students. - (Evan Krape / University of Delaware)

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SON NEWS
  • School of Nursing welcomes new faculty

    August 24, 2026 | Written by Amy Cherry
    The School of Nursing (SON) welcomed several new faculty members for the 2026-27 school year. Learn more about them and what inspired them to pursue careers as nurse educators.
  • Advancing nursing science

    August 24, 2026 | Written by Amy Cherry
    Maya Clark-Cutaia, an accomplished nurse scientist and former Air Force flight nurse, joins the School of Nursing as the Nannie Longfellow Endowed Professor of Nursing Science.
  • Research in Motion

    August 18, 2026 | Written by Amy Cherry
    After Emma Beisheim-Ryan earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree in 2017, Beisheim-Ryan stayed at UD to pursue a doctorate in biomechanics and movement science (BIOMS). During that time, she worked as an instructor in the UDPT Clinic and with patients in UD's Limb Loss Studies Laboratory — an experience that would reshape her career.