Are you inspired to work on the front lines of the health care industry?
Nurses provide the compassionate care and clinical reasoning that improves the lives of the sick and the hurting. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses played a pivotal role in delivering life-saving treatments to the critically ill.
Augusta University is Georgia’s Health Sciences Center of Excellence, and our Bachelor of Nursing degree offers you an experience like no other. Join us to become tomorrow’s health care professional today.
Nursing is for you if you consider yourself
Nursing Program
987 St. Sebastian Way
Augusta, GA 30912
706-721-4862
What You'll Study
The BSN program provides students the knowledge, skills, and abilities to function effectively in all areas of nursing practice through quality instruction and clinical experiences. Clinical experiences encompass not only acute care settings, but also community and home care, ambulatory care, and primary care settings. The program provides students the opportunity to apply didactic knowledge in a variety of hands-on and simulated clinical settings, and lays the groundwork for continuing one’s professional education at the graduate level.
Experience-based Education
In addition to the four semesters of required coursework, nursing students are required to complete 765 hours in a clinical, laboratory or simulation environment, which prepares them to encounter a wide range of clinical settings and challenges.
The state of the art simulation center features patient rooms, classrooms, debriefing rooms and equipment to simulate real world heath care conditions.
Through the Center for Nursing Research, students have the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research, and as part of a larger health sciences university, exciting opportunities exist to collaborate with other health care disciplines.
Whether you’re an undergrad or graduate student, Augusta University offers opportunities to create your own research projects or work with faculty to tackle some of the world’s most complex and pressing challenges.
Academic health centers like Augusta University teach tomorrow’s health care professionals, and the only way to do this is to stay on top of the latest treatments and tools for a culture of continuous learning.
Your Future
Nurses can be directly involved in patient care and case management, or seek health care leadership roles by pursuing graduate degrees in nursing.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects nearly 195,000 average annual openings for registered nurses between 2020 and 2030, with employment projected to grow 9%. In 2020, the median age of a registered nurse was 52, with one-fifth saying they planned to retire within five years, a trend that was accelerated by the pandemic.
Learning Like No Other
Augusta University’s Interdisciplinary Simulation Center is celebrating Healthcare Simulation Week, highlighting the use of simulation in classrooms to provide high-impact experiences for students.
With the completion of the CONAT renovation, the college elevates the standard of learning and training for all students, regardless of location.
It’s been nearly a decade in the making, but Centro Medico, a new clinical space, has opened its doors and will offer services to underserved populations in Augusta.
The VolunJag program offers the opportunity for college students to get in-person medical environment experience.
