Founded in 1903, the School of Nursing & Health Studies houses dynamic degree programs in the health sciences and aims to promote health equity and improve population health locally, nationally, and globally.
Guided by its Mission, Vision, and Values, the school offers academic programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Our faculty comprises seasoned practitioners, researchers, scholars, and teachers. Our graduates are leaders and work in academe, the government and the military, and health systems and community-based organizations, to name a few areas.
Learn more about our bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral programs, and online health prerequisite courses!
To Applicants: Thank you for your interest in the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS). As you may have read, Georgetown is planning to launch a School of Nursing and a School of Health by July 1, 2022. We expect that NHS’s current academic programs will continue on through these two new schools. We plan for the BSN, the MS in Nursing, the DNAP, the DNP, and the PhD in Nursing to be housed in the planned School of Nursing. We plan for the BS programs in Global Health, Health Care Management & Policy, and Human Science and the MS program in Health Systems Administration to be housed in the planned School of Health. The future organizational homes of these programs will not affect your application – admitted students will remain in the programs when the new schools are established.
Since its founding in 1903 as the Georgetown University Hospital Training School for Nurses (with a “first lecture” on the “ethics of nursing”), the school has been committed to situating its work in health care within the broader Catholic, Jesuit mission of the university. Today, the School of Nursing & Health Studies, which houses academic programs in the health sciences, continues that tradition, framing its activities with a Mission, Vision, and Values Statement.
“Supporting our collective foundational mission to advance health equity, the School of Nursing & Health Studies profoundly rejects racism, faith-based persecution, sexism and gender discrimination, ageism, homophobia, ableism, xenophobia, and transphobia. These and all other forms of bias, discrimination, prejudice, and hate directed at persons – expressed overtly or covertly at the interpersonal, institutional, and/or structural levels – threaten our collective humanity through harming both the ability of individuals and communities to truly flourish, and the promotion of equity, justice, and the common good. The School of Nursing & Health Studies, consistent with Georgetown’s Catholic, Jesuit identity, supports an academic environment that is diverse, inclusive and respectful, and we commit to building upon and promoting this work through humility and the transparent practices, policies, resourcing, and values of our academic community.”
This statement has been endorsed by the NHS Executive Faculty and NHS Leadership Team.
Students, faculty, and staff at the School of Nursing & Health Studies create an active learning environment through energizing research endeavors, dynamic educational experiences, and community-based partnerships. This approach includes grant-funded efforts, faculty and student scholarly publications, an intentional focus on the development of undergraduate and graduate student scholarly activities, and enriching collaborations with colleagues in local, national, and global communities. Learn more about the “Policy on Speech and Expression” (Faculty Handbook) and the “Speech and Expression Policy” (Student Affairs).
The School of Nursing & Health Studies is located in St. Mary’s Hall on Georgetown University’s campus. The address is 3700 Reservoir Road, NW.
Graduates of the School of Nursing & Health Studies, like the nursing Class of 1969 pictured above at the 50th Reunion, form a lifelong connection with the school and the university.
Visiting Jesuit Chair Engages Ethical Questions in Health Administration, Health Policy
January 11th, 2022
The Rev. Michael Rozier, SJ, assistant professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University’s College of Public Health and Social Justice, has joined the Georgetown community this semester as a visiting Jesuit chair in the Department of Health Systems Administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies.
American Journal of Nursing Recognizes Georgetown Nursing Professors with Book of the Year Awards
January 10th, 2022
For more than 50 years, the American Journal of Nursing has celebrated “the best in nursing publishing” through an annual Book of the Year Awards list. Two Georgetown nursing professors – Dr. Cindy L. Farley and Dr. Edilma L. Yearwood – are among the individuals being honored on the 2021 list, which was released in the journal’s January 2022 edition.
Georgetown Appoints Transformative Nurse Leader as Dean of Newly Reconceptualized School of Nursing
December 15th, 2021
On July 1, Dr. Roberta Waite, a transformative nurse leader, will begin service as dean of the newly reconceptualized and standalone Georgetown University School of Nursing – one that continues a tradition of nursing education that began on the Hilltop in 1903 and will grow from the current School of Nursing & Health Studies.
Health Care Management & Policy Senior Plans Service-Focused Medical Career
December 13th, 2021
Matthew Fisher (NHS’22), a senior health care management & policy major, has enjoyed his time at Georgetown, including community service opportunities through Alpha Phi Omega. “I have learned so much from my HCMP courses, which has helped me in medical school interviews and to really set myself apart as not just a future physician, but a physician-leader,” he said.
