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Learn By Doing. Succeed By Caring.

Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies programs use the latest in medical equipment and small classroom settings to provide a practical and engaging education for its students. Coupling real-life simulations and opportunities to practice in a variety of clinical settings with the depth of a Jesuit education, you will be equipped with the necessary skills, experience, and ethics, to make a difference in patients' lives and the healthcare system.

  • A team of nurses caring for a patient in a hospital room, focused and working together to provide support.

    Nursing

    Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies offers undergraduate nursing students a strong liberal arts education along with the theory-based knowledge and skills to work in the expanding fields of nursing and healthcare.

  • A nurse caring for a simulation patient in a hospital room.

    Accelerated Second Degree Nursing

    Our full-time accelerated programs are designed to draw upon your prior education and experience, allowing you to earn a second bachelor’s degree in 15 months. Previous knowledge serves as a foundation for nursing courses as you develop the social awareness, critical thinking skills, aesthetic sensibility and values that prepare you to sit and pass the NCLEX nursing licensing exam and enter the field of nursing.

  • A diverse group of students sits at a table, engaged with their laptops and sharing ideas.

    Public Health

    The Egan School’s Public Health program is a prevention-oriented, multi-disciplinary field of study that combines science and social justice to promote conditions that protect and improve the health of people and communities.

  • A woman smiles happily in class surrounded by friends, enjoying a joyful moment together.

    Social Work

    The bachelor of social work degree in the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies upholds and promotes racial, social, economic, and environmental justice to advance human rights and influence the elimination of oppressive systems and practices.

Student Outcomes

Demonstrate Effectiveness

Demonstrate effectiveness in planning and providing holistic evidence-based nursing care for diverse individuals and populations.

Create an Environment

Create an environment for the provision of care within clinical microsystems with attention to quality, safety, information systems and health care ethics.

Informed Delivery

Use clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and ethical decision-making based on nursing science, related theory, and current evidence, to inform the delivery of care across the lifespan.

Collaboration & Partnership

Participate in inter- and intra-professional communication and collaboration in partnership with individuals and populations to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care.

From Knowledge to Application

Translate knowledge from research, benchmarking, quality improvement, and other relevant sources into practice to address health-related problems.

Synthesis of Knowledge

Synthesize knowledge from the humanities and sciences in developing and providing care that is guided by the values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, global citizenship, and social justice.

Professional Growth

Demonstrate professional growth, through the cultivation of self-awareness, responsibility, accountability, creativity, leadership, and commitment to lifelong learning.

Advocate

Advocate for patients, consumers, and the nursing profession through involvement in the political process, and health/patient care policies and practices.

The V.A. Nursing Academy Partnership

Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies continues in a strong formal partnership with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

The Veterans Affairs Nursing Academy was established in 2007 as a five-year pilot program to facilitate stronger and mutually beneficial partnerships between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Egan School of Nursing. The VA Nursing Academy incentivized the development of new models of academic partnerships based on strong and trusting relationships, shared faculty and trainees, innovation in education and patient care, and an emphasis on scholarship and inquiry. Internal and external assessments of the pilot program have demonstrated strongly positive learning and professional development outcomes and a favorable return on investment.

This funded program ended in August, 2013, but the partnership continues. Both the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies are committed to continuing our goals of educating more baccalaureate prepared nurses with the knowledge and skills to care for Veterans and their families, provide academic support to VA nurses continuing their education and work together on clinical improvement and research projects. Our students all receive a Veteran - Centric Curriculum and are offered opportunities participate in the VA Learning Opportunities Residency (VALOR) Program and the post-baccalaureate Nurse Residency (PBNR) Program.

  • CT Health Horizons Scholarship

    Students are eligible to receive up to $10,000 in tuition assistance from CT Health Horizons. Eligibility is need-based and determined upon acceptance.

  • Addressing the Nursing Shortage

    Fairfield Egan's School of Nursing and Health Studies is one of four schools selected for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Program to address the nursing shortage.

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    Fairfield, CT 06824

  • (203) 254-4000

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