School of Nursing
Human Health Building, Room 3027
433 Meadow Brook Road
Rochester,
MI
48309-4452
(location map)
(248) 364-8733
nrsinfo@oakland.edu
M-F 8 a.m.-5 p.m. closed daily 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
Welcome from Dean Judy Didion, PhD, RN Thank you for visiting the Oakland University (OU) School of Nursing (SON) website and for considering OU’s nursing programs.
OU SON continues to develop opportunities for students who wish to pursue nursing as their new career or to advance their nursing education as a practicing nurse. As Dean of the OU SON, I am truly impressed by high-quality programs the SON offers in a diverse and inclusive environment. The positive remarks I hear from the community about OU SON alumni is testimony to the quality of our programs and our graduates.
The University and School’s commitment to engage with communities as an essential part of the education process provides unique real-world learning experiences for its students. Faculty’s connectedness to the healthcare community provides opportunities for students to shape their interests as a generalist or a specialist as they pursue their degree or certification. The SON’s intent is to prepare nurse leaders at all levels of the healthcare environment to participate in the conversations centric to healthcare improvement for individuals and communities.
Whether you are interested in becoming a nurse or are already a nurse and want to advance your nursing career by earning your BSN or a graduate degree, our SON offers programs that will help you to meet your career goals. Our students have access to programs with dynamic instructors, rigorous curricula, a sophisticated learning lab, and clinical practice opportunities throughout the Detroit metro area’s top hospitals and facilities.
Our students are prepared to provide optimal care delivery within the complex and ever-changing healthcare industry as faculty delicately blend the art of science of nursing into the coursework.
The National Academy of Science’s recent publication: The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity emphasizes that the “decade ahead will test the nation’s nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways.” The document lays out the challenges ahead to address the vast disparities in healthcare and health outcomes for individuals in our regions and globally. We, at OU SON accept this challenge by offering contemporary curricula that address the barriers for healthy equity and embeds a constant consideration of how the conditions in the environments in which people live, impacts their health outcomes and quality of life in a positive or a negative manner. We prepare graduates to practice with a holistic approach.
I hope you consider OU for your nursing education. Our emphasis on leadership, theory, technology and practice prepares our graduates to perform in a variety of settings including hospital-based, community-based and home-based care. Our graduates’ footprints can be found at bedsides, in communities, on political platforms and in executive offices. Please join us and leave your footprints on Oakland’s campus as you begin your transformational nursing journey.