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College of Nursing
Health care is an industry that requires courage, compassion, critical thinking and leadership. For 85 years, we have been educating and inspiring leaders to transform health care for a just and humane world. If you are ready to make a difference in the lives of families and communities, then a career in Nursing or Diagnostic Ultrasound may be right for you. Through academic course work and a combination of simulated and live clinical experiences you’ll be prepared to serve the health needs of our community.
MAJORS
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• DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND with a focus in Cardiac, General or Vascular
• Bachelor of Science
• Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
• NURSING
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
EDUCATING THE WHOLE STUDENT FOR THE WHOLE PATIENT
Your education will benefit your life, but even more, the lives of those you touch. In the College of Nursing, you’ll experience a Jesuit-based education and development as a health care professional through classwork and clinical experiences. You’ll work with people of all ages, in diverse and underserved communities. You’ll be educated by clinically experienced master’s- and doctoral-level faculty in all your classes. And you'll receive hands-on experience through rotations in local hospitals and prepare for clinical practice through simulated learning in our Diagnostic Ultrasound lab and 20,000-square-foot Clinical Performance Lab (CPL)—recognized nationwide as a model facility for nursing education.
The CPL is an advanced simulation environment that will help you build confidence and skills before providing patient care as a nurse. The CPL looks and feels like a hospital or clinic, where you can practice highly technical skills with advanced training equipment, such as human-like patient simulators that breathe, bleed, cough and cry.
College of Nursing graduates are prepared for a variety of employment and leadership opportunities. They’re highly sought after for the compassion, competence and knowledge they bring to the bedside, community, home and public policy. And they’re educated to be great communicators and thinkers, with a passion for assuring that all people have access to the highest quality health care. If you’re considering a career in Nursing or Diagnostic Ultrasound, the College of Nursing offers programs of study at the baccalaureate and doctoral levels.
NEARBY HOSPITALS
The Puget Sound region is home to several world-class health systems, many of them just a short walk from Seattle University. During your studies, you may have clinical learning opportunities at:
• EvergreenHealth Medical Center
• Harborview Medical Center
• Overlake Medical Center
• Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
• Seattle Children’s Hospital
• Swedish Hospital
• UW Medical Center
• UW Medical Center—Northwest
• Valley Medical Center
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System
• Virginia Mason Medical Center
As a Diagnostic Ultrasound student, you will also gain relevant experience as part of your senior internship in one of more than 100 clinical settings nationwide.
The Clinical Performance Lab is an energetic hub of learning and among the best in the nation that replicates a clinical setting.
NURSING
Enhanced by the broad education you’ll receive in Core classes of study in the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences, you’ll develop deep global perspectives to carry throughout a lifelong career in the ever-expanding field of nursing. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing emphasizes social justice and a commitment to care for all people. From our small class sizes to learning in clinical settings and with a student-faculty ratio of 8:1, you will hone your skills, gain valuable hands-on experience and work with diverse sets of patients in urgent care settings, long-term care facilities and community clinics.
PUBLIC HEALTH INTERNSHIPS
This immersive, community-centered learning experience introduces students to public health nursing and enables them to think critically about health advocacy beyond the bedside. This innovative internship program pairs junior- and senior-level undergraduates with mentors at community health and social service agencies for 30 hours each quarter over the course of one year.
GLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATION
International travel can be transformative. It allows you to experience the lives of others, immerse yourself in another culture and see firsthand the effects of globalization on health, social services and the economy. A group of SU nursing students travels to Belize City every summer to explore these very issues. There they work alongside and learn from community members and local health professionals.
DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND
As a student in our distinctive Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound program, you’ll be trained to see what others can’t. Diagnostic Ultrasound is a medical imaging science that complements other clinical evaluations. The images you capture as a sonographer allow you to make preliminary diagnostic decisions about your patient’s care and make you an integral part of a health care team. Our innovative curriculum will provide you with the academic foundation and clinical experience necessary to pursue a rewarding career in diagnostic medical sonography. With three curriculum tracks in Cardiac, General or Vascular, you’ll be able to personalize your program experience and maximize your learning each step of the way.
HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
During your last four quarters in the Diagnostic Ultrasound program, you’ll gain hands-on clinical sonography experience through an internship at one of our partner clinical sites. These include both inpatient and outpatient settings located within teaching hospitals, community hospitals and ambulatory care clinics in the Seattle area, Washington state, the West Coast and throughout the United States.
CLINICAL PERFORMANCE LAB
20,000
square foot clinical and teaching lab.
90+
high-fidelity simulation suites with research commons and skills lab equipped with patient simulator models that can run more than 90 different patient scenarios.
24
bed acute care simulation hospital.
Jack T. Hoheisel, ’21, Nursing, ROTC
—Jack T. Hoheisel, ’21, Nursing, ROTC
