Cal State L.A.’s nursing graduate program
among the best in the city, state, nation

Los Angeles, CA – U.S. News and World Report 2008 “America’s Best Graduate Schools” edition has ranked Cal State L.A.’s nursing master’s degree program among the top in the nation. Cal State L.A. is one of only two in the Los Angeles area, and one of only two CSU campuses making the list.

Since 2000, when it began surveying nursing graduate programs, U.S. News and World Report has listed Cal State L.A.’s nursing graduate program among the top five programs in California.

Cal State L.A.’s School of Nursing has recently been selected as one of 14 schools of nursing nationwide to participate in Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a prestigious initiative making quality improvements on the front lines of hospital-based patient care.

Through CSU funding sponsored by State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-23), the School is now equipped with an updated Nursing Skills Lab, creating a teaching environment more reflective of current healthcare settings.

Patricia Chin, RN, DNS, director of the School of Nursing at Cal State L.A., says, “Students and faculty members are delighted with the renovated nursing skills laboratory. We have been able to acquire equipment and technology needs to provide our student with a state-of-the-art simulation learning environment for both our undergraduate and graduate nursing programs.”

In order to meet the growing demand for more nurses to care for the growing population, the School has also expanded its Entry-Level Master’s Nursing Program (ELMN) targeting students who are currently not in the nursing field and are interested in changing careers to nursing.

Cal State L.A. nursing program began in the late 1960s. Part of the College of Health and Human Services, the School of Nursing comprises about 700 pre-nursing majors, more than 300 undergraduate nursing students, nearly 140 graduate students and 20 full-time faculty members. Advanced practice nursing options offered in the graduate program include nursing education, nursing administration, psychiatric/mental health clinical nurse specialist, nursing case management and four nurse practitioner options: primary and acute adult, primary and acute pediatric, family and psychiatric/mental health. Its programs are approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing and received continuing accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC).

According to U.S. News, rankings are based “solely on the results of peer assessment surveys sent to deans, other administrators, and/or faculty at accredited degree programs or schools in each discipline.”

Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. More than 20,000 students and 200,000 alumni—with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds—reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. Six colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12. Among programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, to be housed in the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. www.calstatela.edu

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