Nurse Educator

The Nurse Educator program offers nursing professionals the unique opportunity to influence the future of nursing through education. The fully online MSN program, which can be completed in as few as 12 months, will prepare students to lead and teach future nursing professionals. The Nurse Educator option provides advanced theory and practicum experiences emphasizing both nursing education in institutions of higher education for students in a variety of health care education programs and for health care education for patients and families across the life span in a variety of health care contexts. Students are prepared to teach in either higher education or clinical settings.

The completion of the post-master’s certificate courses will enable nurse educators in the state of North Carolina to meet the requirements for the North Carolina Board of Nursing and enable the graduates to be eligible to take the Certification for Nurse Educators (CNE) examination sponsored by the National League for Nursing.

• Admissions
  • Admission Requirements
  • Application Timeline & Start Dates
  • Tuition
  • Financial Aid
• Program Information
  • Program Handbook
    • Student Handbook 2019-2020
    • Student Handbook 2018-2019
    • Student Handbook 2017-2018
  • Academic Degree Requirements
  • Required Courses & Course Sequence
  • Course Descriptions
  • Student Learning Outcomes
  • Academic Catalogue
• Nursing Education Practicum
  
  • Practicum Overview
• Advising
  • Schedule an Appointment (Student Success Center)
• OAP Toolkit
  Tools you'll need to succeed
• Get Involved
  • Student Organizations
    • Graduate Nursing Student Academy
    • Graduate Student Association
  • Nursing Honor Society
    • Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
  • Professional Organizations:
    • North Carolina Board of Nursing
    • American Nursing Association
• Career & Graduate School Information
  • UNCW Career Center
  • National Student Nurses' Association Career Center 
• Program Faculty
  • Faculty & Staff Directory

OAP Application and Start Dates

OAP Toolkit

Application Note

• The graduate application is open for one session at a time. Please note that cohorts frequently fill ahead of published deadlines due to unprecedented interest.
• Application cycles are open until cohorts are full.
• There is no advanced notice of application closures.

Quick Links

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• Academic Support Services
• Technology Support Services
• Office of e-Learning
• OAP Student Billing

Contact Information

For advising questions, contact the Student Success Center at 910.962.3208 or chhs@uncw.edu.

School of Nursing
UNC Wilmington
McNeill Hall 3080
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5979
910.962.3200

April Matthias, PhD, RN, CNE
Associate Professor of Nursing
Program Coordinator, Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Nurse Educator Program

For distance learners contact us at 855.306.4734 or visit our online program website.