Honors Program for Prelicensure Students

Gradauting Honors Class of 2001

Mission

The Nursing Honors program recognizes the academic talent of students and provides a supportive, creative environment so that students are able to meet their individual potential. The honors program provides an opportunity to work closely with seasoned faculty counselors under whose direction students will conceive a project idea, define goals and then plan, implement and evaluate the activities they undertook to accomplish their goals.

Benefits

• Highly developed critical thinking and analytical skills
• Opportunity to develop an area of interest and specialty into an honors project
• Enhanced Leadership ability and professional potential
• Recognition within the Department of Nursing
• Recognition within the College of Health Professions
• Recognition within the profession of nursing
• Honors Designation on official transcript

Eligibility Criteria

• Achievement of a 3.4 grade point average at the completion of the first two clinical nursing courses
• Submission of a faculty recommendation
• Successful completion of an interview with the Honors Program Coordinator

Program Requirements
Activities are highly individualized and are tailored to each individual student's goals and areas of interest. Honors students are required to maintain a 3.0 GPA and satisfactory progress in all nursing department courses, and to enroll in Nursing 480: Honors Project I: Design and Planning Phases (third term / semester and Nursing 482: Honors Project II: Implementation and Evaluation Phases (fourth term/semester. Both of these 3 credit courses guide the honors student through the planning process, initial implementation stages to project completion and evaluation stages. Key to the notion of the honors program is close interaction with the honors coordinators who facilitate the acquisition of resources and promotes accomplishment of strategies necessary for successful completion of the study. For More information contact Margaret.Griffiths@jefferson.edu, Program Coordinator.

Student Contacts
JEFFERSON COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
130 South 9TH Street
12TH Floor Suite 1223
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5233
1-215-503-7557
Margaret Griffiths@jefferson.edu, Program Coordinator

Office of Admissions
(215)503-1042

University Office of Financial Aid
(215)955-2867

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