College of Nursing & Health Science
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the State Board of Nursing approved the baccalaureate nursing program in 1974. Since that time, the program has grown from a Department of Nursing to a School of Nursing and in 1993, the School of Nursing was reformulated as the College of Nursing and Health Science to provide the breadth needed to respond to dramatic and dynamic fundamental changes occurring in health care. The college's community-based curriculum has become a national and international model serving to inform and guide curriculum change as decentralization trends move the focus of health care from the institutional to regional and local community-based care.
The mission of the college is to equip professionals to provide leadership, care, and services related to health promotion, wellness, disease prevention, and quality of life through the promotion of physical, social, and environmental health practices. Graduates practice in a variety of roles in settings that are complex, multicultural, and constantly changing. The college is a resource for health promotion to the university, as well as to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Administration
Rita M. Carty, Dean
Myra H. Fisher, Associate Dean for Administration
Georgine M. Redmond, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
James Vail, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research
Rosemarie C. Brenkus, Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs
Faculty
Professors: Ailinger, Butler, Carty, Cary, Feeg,
Johnson-Brown, Metcalf, Silva, Sorrell, Walker, Wakefield
Associate professors: Alemi, Brindle,
Choi, Douglas, Fisher, Gaffney, Hale, Harper, Maddox, Moore, Noble,
Redmond, Vail, Wu
Assistant professors: Bernstein, Boland,
Boyd, Brenkus, Conti, Davidson, Harrington, Kodadek, Langley, Normile,
Pawloski, Roberts, Rudowski, Washington, Young
Adjunct professor: Brooks, Tornabeni
Adjunct associate professors: Bednash,
DeLeon, Geolot, Johnson
Adjunct assistant professor: Barry
Instructors: Alsace, Blasser, Boyd,
Dawson, Durham, Langan, Maradiegue, Merritt, Miklancie, Moss, Robertson,
Urban, Venske
Lecturers: Burch, Brown, White
Student Health Services
The George Mason University Student Health Services is operated through a partnership between the College of Nursing and Health Science and University Life.
Course Work
The College of Nursing and Health Science offers all course work
designated NURS and HSCI
in the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog.
George Mason University: 2000-2001 University Catalog: Catalog Index: College of Nursing & Health Science