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Welcome to the School of Nursing


The UTEP School of Nursing is among the top nursing schools in the United States, according to NursingSchoolsAlmanac.com’s inaugural rankings. The website ranked the UTEP School of Nursing 30 th out of more than 350 nursing schools in the Southwest, which includes schools in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.

The baccalaureate degree in nursing program, master’s degree in nursing, post-graduate APRN certificate program and Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at the University of Texas at El Paso, are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 887-6791.

Our degree programs offered include:

Undergraduate

  • Traditional BSN
  • RN to BSN

Graduate

  • Master's Programs
    • Nursing Administration and Management (NAM)
    • Nursing Education (NE)
    • Nurse Practitioner (NP)
      • Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
      • Family Nurse Practitioner with Primary Care Focus
      • Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
      • Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
      • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Across the Lifespan)
  • Post Graduate’s Nurse Practitioner Certificates

    Post Graduate’s with Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Recognition

    • Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Family Nurse Practitioner with Primary Care Focus
    • Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Across the Lifespan)

          Post Graduate’s without  Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Recognition

    • Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Family Nurse Practitioner with Primary Care Focus
    • Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Across the Lifespan)
  • Post Graduate’s Nurse Certificates
    • Nursing Administration and Management (NAM)
    • Nursing Education (NE)
  • Doctoral Programs

As the first national research university with a 21 st century demographic, The University of Texas at El Paso offers a rich and supportive research environment allowing faculty and students in the UTEP School of Nursing’s baccalaureate and graduate programs to participate in innovative health-related research opportunities undefined

FEATURED NEWS


Three hundred and fifty UTEP health care students and medical students from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) El Paso Paul L. Foster School of Medicine participated in UTEP's first virtual Interprofessional Education experience in October 2020.

UTEP Health Care Students Learn to Work Together Online During Pandemic

When Heather Ramirez, a speech-language pathology graduate student at The University of Texas at El Paso, participated in her first Interprofessional Education (IPE) experience in 2019, she worked alongside other health professions students on a treatment plan for a transgender female who had suffered a stroke.

UTEP will offer a new postgraduate certificate in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner concentration starting in spring 2021. Photo: Laura Trejo / UTEP Communications.

UTEP to Offer Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program in Spring 2021

EL PASO, Texas – The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently approved a new postgraduate certificate in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) concentration at The University of Texas at El Paso. The certificate program will help address the critical need for more mental health providers caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, said UTEP School of Nursing Dean Leslie K. Robbins, Ph.D.

Volunteers from UTEP's social work, pharmacy and nursing programs offer flu shots to people experiencing homelessness at the Delta Welcome Center on Oct. 13, 2020. Photo: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications

UTEP’s H.O.P.E Clinic Brings Flu Shot to Homeless Individuals

More than 150 men, women and children experiencing homelessness in El Paso got a shot at preventing the flu and lowering their risk of becoming ill with both influenza and COVID-19 this winter.

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The University of Texas at El Paso
School of Nursing
Health Sciences and Nursing Building
500 W University
El Paso, Texas 79968

E: nursing@utep.edu
P: (915) 747-8217
F: (915) 747-8295