FLORENCE, SC – Francis Marion University’s Department of Nursing has been named as one of 15 new Centers of Excellence by the National League for Nursing, the nation’s premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education.
NLN Centers of Excellence exemplify the League’s core values of caring, integrity, diversity, and excellence, and faculty at designated institutions bear a responsibility to share their experience, knowledge, and wisdom for the benefit of everyone in nursing education.
Schools and programs that receive NLN Center of Excellence recognition must meet high standards of excellence in nursing education. Each school is recognized for a particular trait that is critical to superb nursing education..
Dr. Ruth Wittmann-Price, dean of FMU’s School of Health Sciences and past chair of the Department of Nursing, says NLN recognition is a notable, but highly appropriate benchmark for FMU’s Department of Nursing.
“We have a long-standing commitment to providing our students with the very best instruction, which means providing them with the very best faculty,” says Wittmann-Price. “That’s a never-ending process, as any great nursing instructor will tell you. The professors must keep learning, keep improving, right along with their students.”
FMU is one of just 56 institutions nationally that has been recognized as a Center of Excellence by the National League of Nursing. It’s one of just two nursing schools in South Carolina with that designation.
FMU will be formally recognized at the League’s annual Education Summit in Orlando later this fall.-This information is from a Press Release.
