• Wegmans School of Nursing
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Welcome to the Wegmans School of Nursing

The education of professional nurses at St. John Fisher College is built on a foundation of the arts and sciences which prepares its graduates to practice in increasingly complex, diverse, economically challenged and research-based health care organizations. The science of nursing practice is enhanced at Fisher by the values-based education that is rooted in the educational philosophy of the Basilian Fathers. Fisher endeavors to prepare graduates who integrate the basic sciences and humanities with nursing science and who practice a profession of service based on ethical and moral principles. This is the tradition of Fisher and the model of education that best serves the nursing professional practicing in a world of challenges and discovery.

The new 40,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art facility was made possible through an $8 million gift from the Wegmans Family that has transitioned the locally prominent Fisher department of nursing to a School of Nursing with state and national prominence. Over the next five years, with expanded capacity and the addition of new faculty, the evolution will continue as the school develops an increased emphasis on research, community and global health initiatives, and the addition of a new doctoral program in advanced practice nursing by 2008.

Despite the growth and change, the Wegmans School of Nursing will remain true to its professional values and the traditions that began long ago in the Cadet Nursing Program opened during World War II at Alfred University.  It will continue to distinguish itself as a student centered program providing excellence in undergraduate and graduate education within the Basilian tradition, committed to the values of goodness, discipline, and knowledge which identify a Fisher graduate and a Fisher nurse.

Dianne Cooney Miner, PhD, RN, CNS