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Welcome to Adult Health Nursing!

Adult Health Nursing is one of three departments in the School of Nursing at UW-Eau Claire, contributing courses and faculty expertise to the undergraduate, graduate and collaborative nursing degree programs in the School of Nursing.

Our undergraduate courses focus on health and health deviations of adults, including content on acute and chronic illnesses, health promotion, human responses to health concerns, nursing clinical decision making, adult development, and family/community as context of care.

Graduate courses lead to an Adult Health specialization option and contribute courses toward either the Advanced Clinical Practice, Educator or Administrator role preparation tracks.

Collaborative Nursing Degree courses contribute to the BSN degree, a program for Registered Nurses returning to complete the baccalaureate.

Areas of adult health nursing expertise represented among department faculty include adult acute care, mental health nursing, women's health, community-based nursing, alternative and complementary therapies, gerontology, nutrition, sexually transmitted infections, and human responses to health concerns. Additional areas of faculty expertise include quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, informatics, healing touch, primary care, and distance education. Clinical facilities at the School of Nursing include a nursing clinic and a nursing skills lab, in addition to multiple community-based and acute care sites in our health care communities.

The Adult Health Nursing Department is located in the School of Nursing on the main Eau Claire campus, with faculty at the Marshfield program site as well.

Questions? Contact Sheila Smith at smithsk@uwec.edu or phone 715-836-3725.