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Marcy Ainslie
Assistant Professor -
Samantha Arnold
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Rhonda Board
Clinical Professor -
Angela Braswell
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Courtney Coffey
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Chantal Cole
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR -
Cathleen Colleran
Clinical Associate Professor -
Marcy Doyle
Research Asst ProfessorResearch Assistant ProfessorClinical and Quality Improvement DirectorClinical Assistant Professor -
Elizabeth Evans
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Lauryn Frost
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Marjorie Godfrey
Research Professor -
Elizabeth Harrison
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Eileen Hollis
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Pamela Kallmerten
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSORDirect Entry Master's In Nursing (DEMN), Clinical Nurse Leader and Evidence-Based Nursing Program Director -
Kaitlynn Liset
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Anne Meginniss
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Clarissa Michalak
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Kerry Nolte
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR -
Cassandra Perry
Clinical Assistant Professor -
April Phelps
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Patricia Puccilli
CLINICAL PROFESSORInterprofessional Practice FellowUndergraduate Program Director -
Sara Robinson
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Deborah Simonton
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -
Emily Spenski
Clinical Assistant Professor
Nursing Major (B.S.)
Nursing Major (B.S.)

What is nursing?
Nursing is a high-demand field at the front lines of healthcare. Nurses use clinical judgement and decision-making skills to determine patient, family and community needs, and provide evidence-based treatment and healthcare guidance. UNH nursing graduates become part of the workforce that is helping to shape the future of healthcare. A nursing degree will prepare you for work in a wide range of areas, including emergency and critical care, family practice, school nurse, assisted living settings and a vast array of hospital and rehabilitation settings.
Why study nursing at UNH?
In the nursing degree program at UNH, you’ll learn from faculty who serve as facilitators and mentors within a supportive, scholarly environment. You’ll develop high quality clinical and problem-solving skills in our innovative nursing lab, which includes mannequins, task trainers and equipment to simulate clinical situations. You’ll also gain valuable hands-on experience through opportunities to participate in research at home and abroad, clinical experiences offered at area hospitals and community health agencies, and internships. The undergraduate nursing program is nationally accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Potential careers
- Clinical nurse (critical care, pediatrics, oncology, home care, school nursing)
- Community health nurse
- Home healthcare specialist
- Nurse case manager
- Nurse educator
- Nurse-midwife
- Nurse practitioner
- Nursing and healthcare administration
- Researcher in practice, education, service or industry
Curriculum & Requirements
The nursing program faculty believe learning is a creative process wherein students are active participants in their education, growth, and development as professional nurses. Faculty members are facilitators and mentors to students within a supportive, scholarly environment.
The curricula are divided into biological, social sciences, and humanities as a foundation for courses in the major, and nursing courses, which emphasize relationship-based care, reflective thinking, clinical decision making, and the application of evidence-based guidelines to develop quality and safe clinical skills. Clinical experiences are offered in area health facilities, community health agencies, and a state-of-the-art simulation laboratory. The senior year culminates in a capstone practicum, NURS 721C Integrating Professional Nursing Practice Clinical, in which students apply curricular concepts in a precepted clinical experience. Candidates for the nursing degree must satisfy all of the University Discovery Program requirements in addition to satisfying major requirements. Discovery courses listed below require a C or better in the major.
A grade of C or better in high school chemistry is also required, as well as biology or physics.
Code | Title | Credits |
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ENGL 401 | First-Year Writing | 4 |
BMS 507 & BMS 508 | Human Anatomy and Physiology I and Human Anatomy and Physiology II | 8 |
PSYC 401 | Introduction to Psychology | 4 |
BMS 501 | Microbes in Human Disease | 4 |
Total Credits | 20 |
A course in statistics (HHS 540, PSYC 402, SOC 402, MATH 439) must be completed prior to, or taken concurrent with, nursing research. The statistics course also requires a C or better in the major.
Prerequisite courses require grades of C or better and only one prerequisite course may be repeated one time in order to progress. Most of the prerequisite courses also meet Discovery requirements. Major courses require a minimum grade of C. Nursing courses may not be repeated. A cumulative grade-point average of 2.5 must be maintained throughout the program.
Students are responsible for their own transportation to clinical agencies, uniforms, professional equipment, health insurance coverage, yearly criminal background checks, drug screening, fingerprinting, yearly health assessment, and select immunizations and titers. Students must maintain certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professionals level. All clinical documents must be received by July 1st before the sophomore year, except flu vaccine, which is due by October 15th, and remain up to date until graduation. Clinical documents cannot expire during the academic year; documents that must be submitted yearly must be dated between May 1 and June 30. Students will be assessed a late fee if clinical documents are not received by the due date. Students will be dropped from nursing courses if documentation is not received by the first day of class. Additional costs associated with the program include, but are not limited to, simulation laboratory fees, fees associated with program requirements, and attendance at professional meetings.
Honors-in-Major Program
The Honors-in-Major Program is offered to interested junior nursing students who achieve a minimum grade-point average of 3.75 in NURS courses and cumulative GPA of 3.4 at the end of the sophomore year in nursing and/or junior nursing students who are members of the University Honors Program. A total of 18 credits taken at the honors level is required for the Honors-in-Major Program. Orientation to the Honors-in-Major Program is held at the beginning of junior nursing year. Students must successfully complete with a grade of B or better 8 additional credits of honors coursework drawn from the following courses:
Code | Title | Credits |
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Select two courses from the following: | ||
NURS 612 | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness II | 4 |
NURS 627 | Clinical Judgment in Nursing | 4 |
NURS 704 | Public Health Nursing | 4 |
NURS 705 | Contemporary Leadership within Health Care Systems | 4 |
Honors-in-major students must also successfully complete with a grade of B or better:
Code | Title | Credits |
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NURS 648W | Nursing Honors Seminar I | 1-4 |
NURS 748W | Nursing Honors Thesis I | 1 |
NURS 749W | Nursing Honors Thesis II | 4 |
These self-directed learning experiences, related to the student's interests, are designed to help students acquire advanced knowledge and skills to undertake inquiry or scholarly projects. Students must submit a project description to a faculty adviser at the beginning of the senior year. Students present the results of this study at the Nursing Inquiry Day.
Degree Plan
First Year | ||
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Fall | Credits | |
BMS 507 | Human Anatomy and Physiology I | 4 |
ENGL 401 | First-Year Writing | 4 |
HHS 401 | College of Health and Human Services Seminar | 1 |
NURS 500 | Introduction to Professional Nursing 1 | 2 |
Discovery/Inquiry | 4 | |
Discovery/Inquiry | 4 | |
Credits | 19 | |
Spring | ||
BMS 508 | Human Anatomy and Physiology II | 4 |
PSYC 401 | Introduction to Psychology | 4 |
NURS 501 | Research for Nursing Professionals | 4 |
Discovery/Inquiry | 4 | |
Credits | 16 | |
Second Year | ||
Fall | ||
BMS 501 | Microbes in Human Disease | 4 |
NURS 504 | Disease and Drugs I | 4 |
NURS 516 | Health Assessment and Nursing Fundamentals (plus lab) | 4 |
NURS 516C | Health Assessment and Nursing Fundamentals Clinical | 2 |
Discovery | 4 | |
Credits | 18 | |
Spring | ||
Statistics 3 | 4 | |
NURS 505 | Diseases and Drugs II | 4 |
NURS 506 | Human Development, Interaction and Learning Across the Lifespan | 4 |
NURS 517C | Clinical Integration (plus lab) | 2 |
NURS 601 | Function and Wellbeing of Older Adults | 2 |
Credits | 16 | |
Third Year | ||
Fall | ||
NURS 611 | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness I (plus lab) | 4 |
NURS 611C | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness I Clinical | 2 |
NURS 616 | Living with Mental Illness 2 | 2 |
NURS 616C | Living with Mental Illness Clinical | 2 |
Discovery/Elective | 4 | |
Discovery/Elective | 4 | |
Credits | 18 | |
Spring | ||
NURS 612 | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness II (plus lab) | 4 |
NURS 612C | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness II Clinical | 2 |
NURS 621 | Maternal and Newborn Nursing (plus lab) 2 | 2 |
NURS 621C | Maternal Newborn Nurs Clin | 2 |
NURS 627 | Clinical Judgment in Nursing (writing intensive) 4 | 4 |
Discovery/Elective | 4 | |
Credits | 18 | |
Fourth Year | ||
Fall | ||
NURS 702 | Child Health Nursing | 2 |
NURS 702C | Child Health in the Community Clinical | 2 |
NURS 704 | Public Health Nursing | 4 |
NURS 704P | Public Health Nursing Project | 2 |
NURS 711 | Clinical Judgment in Complex Illness (plus lab) | 2 |
Discovery/Elective | 4 | |
Credits | 16 | |
Spring | ||
NURS 705 | Contemporary Leadership within Health Care Systems | 4 |
NURS 721 | Integrating Professional Nursing Practice | 2 |
NURS 721C | Integrating Professional Nursing Practice Clinical | 6 |
Credits | 12 | |
Total Credits | 133 |
- 1
May be taken fall or spring semester
- 2
May be taken fall or spring semester.
- 3
PSYC 402 Statistics in Psychology, SOC 402 Statistics, MATH 439 Statistical Discovery for Everyone, HHS 540 Statistics for Health and Human Service Professionals
- 4
May be taken fall or spring semester
Major Requirements
Code | Title | Credits |
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NURS 500 | Introduction to Professional Nursing | 2 |
NURS 501 | Research for Nursing Professionals | 4 |
NURS 504 | Disease and Drugs I | 4 |
NURS 505 | Diseases and Drugs II | 4 |
NURS 506 | Human Development, Interaction and Learning Across the Lifespan | 4 |
NURS 516 | Health Assessment and Nursing Fundamentals | 4 |
NURS 516C | Health Assessment and Nursing Fundamentals Clinical | 2 |
NURS 517C | Clinical Integration | 2 |
NURS 601 | Function and Wellbeing of Older Adults | 2 |
NURS 611 | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness I | 4 |
NURS 611C | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness I Clinical | 2 |
NURS 612 | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness II | 4 |
NURS 612C | Care of the Adult with Acute Illness II Clinical | 2 |
NURS 616 | Living with Mental Illness | 2 |
NURS 616C | Living with Mental Illness Clinical | 2 |
NURS 621 | Maternal and Newborn Nursing | 2 |
NURS 621C | Maternal Newborn Nurs Clin | 2 |
NURS 627 | Clinical Judgment in Nursing | 4 |
NURS 702 | Child Health Nursing | 2 |
NURS 702C | Child Health in the Community Clinical | 2 |
NURS 704 | Public Health Nursing | 4 |
NURS 704P | Public Health Nursing Project | 2 |
NURS 705 | Contemporary Leadership within Health Care Systems | 4 |
NURS 711 | Clinical Judgment in Complex Illness | 2 |
NURS 721 | Integrating Professional Nursing Practice | 2 |
NURS 721C | Integrating Professional Nursing Practice Clinical | 6 |
The undergraduate student is prepared to:
- Synthesize core knowledge from the liberal arts, sciences, and nursing as the foundation of professional practice.
- Integrate knowledge and skills to assess, design, implement, and evaluate nursing care in a safe, compassionate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based manner.
- Engage clients, families, and communities in collaborative decision-making incorporating evidence-based knowledge and anticipatory guidance.
- Employ team leadership and collaborative skills with other health professionals to optimize client and system outcomes.
- Recognize the influence of complex health systems on health care practice and advocate for policies that promote a socially just, patient centered healthcare system.
- Engage in scholarly inquiry to identify, evaluate and integrate the best current practice.
- Integrates health promotion, clinical prevention strategies when providing care at the individual or population level.
- Incorporates principles of patient safety and risk mitigation when using healthcare technology and therapeutics in the provision of care.
- Uses effective written, verbal, and nonverbal communication strategies when engaged in professional practice.
- Embrace professional values embodied in the ANA code of ethics.
Explore Program Details
After May 1st and before July 1st sophomores, juniors, and seniors must submit required documents as instructed in the Department of Nursing. Expiration dates cannot occur during the academic year.
If documentation is received after July 1st and up to August 1st, the student will be required to pay a late fee of $100. If documentation is received after August 1st and up to August 15th, the student will be required to pay a second late fee of $100. If documentation is not received by August 15th, the student will be required to drop all nursing courses and cannot participate in any clinical hours. If a student subsequently submits all required documentation, the student will be required to pay the July 1 and August 1 late fees.
- Submit Department of Nursing clinical documentation form with positive titre for mumps, measles, rubella and chicken pox signed by primary care provider;
- Proof of Tdap immunization within the last ten years; if Tdap is older than ten years, submit proof of Tdap and Td booster;
- Proof of positive Hepatitis B titre. If Hepatitis B titre is negative, the student must repeat series and submit written documentation. If a student is in the process of receiving the series and cannot demonstrate a positive HBV, a letter from healthcare provider must be submitted as above by July 1.
- Proof of 2-step PPD results done yearly and if positive PPD, one chest X-ray with written documentation of no active disease yearly. Students who have had the BCG vaccine or who are allergic to the PPD test, may arrange with their PCP for a qualified lab to administer the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test (QFT-G). It is not available in all areas. A two-step PPD may be required.
- Flu vaccine documentation by October 15 yearly;
- Proof of physical exam within 12 months of first day of class and yearly thereafter;
- CPR through the American Heart Association at the Basic Life Support Provider level only;
- Criminal background report via approved, online agency and New Hampshire State Police, regardless of residency;
- Submit Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services State Registry Consent Form (BEAS);
- NHCCP training between August 1 and August 15 yearly which includes education on blood borne pathogens; and
- Drug and alcohol testing by approved vendor on assigned date and time; random testing thereafter; and further testing, if there is reasonable suspicion or the student is unable to supply testable sample, at the student's expense.