The UMass Amherst Nursing students experience the resources of a large, prestigious research university along with the College's small classes, sense of community, caring faculty and staff, and state-of-the-art classrooms and labs. As an undergraduate Nursing major at UMass Amherst, you will: benefit from the expertise of our distinguished, caring faculty; collaborate with fellow students in team learning environments; use current technology in our state-of-the-art simulation lab. The undergraduate program provides the knowledge and skills fundamental to professional nursing. Students emerge from this community-based program prepared for graduate study and able to: advocate for culturally relevant care for vulnerable and underserved populations to reduce health care disparities and promote social justice; collaborate to shape environments and systems that promote health and well-being, ensure safe, quality care for all, and maximize the unique contribution of nursing; enact the nursing role in a manner that consistently reflects caring, professional values, ethical principles, accountability, integrity, a commitment to lifelong learning, self-care, and an awareness of how personal values influence one’s actions; exhibit a spirit of inquiry and creativity to identify gaps in nursing knowledge, critique new science, and use evidence as a basis of practice; provide safe, quality, patient- and family-centered holistic care across the lifespan to promote health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities; engage others to envision, influence, and implement practice and policy changes in healthcare to achieve a preferred future locally, nationally, and globally; collaborate with individuals, families, communities and interdisciplinary teams using professional communication to design, manage, and evaluate care, facilitate transitions of care and maximize outcome; integrate emerging technologies and information management tools to enhance communication and healthcare access, support safe processes of care, and evaluate impact on health outcomes.
