Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

As a first-year student, you’ll find yourself launching head-first into a rigorous curriculum. With the support of an experienced nursing faculty adviser, you’ll receive academic and professional guidance throughout your nursing education at Shenandoah. If you’re interested in a different kind of challenge to supplement your nursing education, you can also apply to Shenandoah’s Honors Program. You will also have direct access to a full range of student-life activities on and off campus. After you’ve completed your studies, you’ll sit for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), prepared with the skills and knowledge to apply for entry-level professional nurse positions.

Apply Now to be an SU Nursing Student

Shenandoah’s Nursing program is special because it has direct admittance. Many schools do not admit students into their nursing programs until the junior year, but at Shenandoah you know you are in the nursing program upon admittance to the university. That also means that you can start taking nursing classes earlier than other programs elsewhere. Student’s first nursing course will be in your sophomore year. Additionally, nursing students are assigned a nursing faculty advisor upon entry to the university.

A Safe and State-of-the-Art Way To Practice Nursing Skills

Our simulation suite’s high-fidelity simulation spaces mimic real-world clinical settings, including labor and delivery, a medical/surgical hospital room, a small apartment, and a combination ER/ICU and feature state-of-the art adult, pediatric, birthing and newborn simulators, all of which respond to nursing interventions with the expected human physiologic response. This means that they can accept IV catheters; bleed; have heart, lung and bowel sounds; and have chest-rise when breathing. They’re even wired for sound, so they can respond appropriately to students’ care. 

Within this suite, our students expand upon their didactic, clinical and skills lab learning. It’s a safe learning environment that enables students to make mistakes, challenge their thinking and develop clinical judgment.