School of Nursing

Honors and Recognition Ceremony is Friday May 3rd at 6pm! Click here to acces the livestream!

Happy Summer from the School of Nursing!

We have ended the semester in great style. The NightinGala was a huge success with over 270 people in attendance. We honored our 2024 Outstanding Alumna, Deborah Deal, UTC BSN ’89, DNP ’22 who is the Chief Nurse Executive at Parkridge Health System and our Outstanding Community Partner, Zeta Alpha Chapter of Sigma. We celebrated the Kennedy family’s generous donation to the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building, the new home for the School of Nursing. The weather was perfect and the committee’s attention to detail made this a memorable night.

We graduate another cohort of BSN and DNP Nursing Administration System students and welcome our 3rd cohort of ABSN students. Admissions decisions for the 4th ABSN cohort will be made in the next month. As they come into the school, the first cohort graduates.  The finishing touches are being made for the DNP: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner concentration. As it winds its way through the higher education process, please feel free to contact me if you have interest in the program. We are excited to add this to our population foci. 

The work to build the new home of the School of Nursing is progressing. Meetings to discuss what is needed for simulation, audio/visuals, classrooms, shared spaces and skills lab are overwhelming – but in a truly exciting way. The attention to detail can be mind numbing but this will be a state-of-the-art facility, worthy of the Kennedy name and more importantly, a place to educate future MOC nursing leaders. 

Summer is supposed to be a time of rest and relaxation, but I don’t think that will be the case here. With all five DNP concentrations in progress as well as 3 ABSN cohorts, it will seem just like another semester. If you have anything you are curious about, or want to get updates on the wonderful things that are happening here, come by or email. We would love to bring you up to speed. Be prepared though – it seems we are going 90 miles per hour!
Chris 
 

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

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.