Welcome Incoming Nursing Students
CGN WINS
Professional identity begins at Western University of Health Sciences where the humanistic model of blending caring and science sets the College of Graduate Nursing students apart from others.
CGN nurses bring practice, leadership, and evidence to every client and family encounter, be it at the bedside, in the community, or in the boardroom.
Join us today in launching the WINS initiative focusing on building a professional identity for new nursing students by selecting one of the programs from the menu on the left.
Welcome Incoming Nursing Students
“I am thrilled to be involved in the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) efforts to establish professional identity for those who attend our College.”
Please help shape the professional identity for tomorrow’s nurses by supporting the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) to the profession. Remember when you entered nursing school and began pursuing your dream of becoming a registered nurse? Completing nursing school and entering the profession contributed to your professional identity. Now, it is time to help others achieve that same dream.
The College of Graduate Nursing selects 65 candidates annually to enter the MSN-E program through a holistic admissions process. These candidates have distinguished themselves through past academic performance and extra-curricular activities, and are now entering an intensive 6-semester program. At the end of the program, the students will earn a Master of Science in Nursing and be eligible for licensure and employment.
Pre-licensure students have the greatest need of all College of Graduate Nursing students. Your gift helps defer the expense of attending nursing school and your gift also establishes the importance of a registered nurse’s professional identity. Please give today.
– Dr. Patricia Shakhshir
MSN Administrative Nurse Leader and Clinical Nurse Leader
Please help shape the professional leadership identity for tomorrow’s nurses by supporting the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) campaign.
The need for nurse leaders is as abundant as the need for nurses in general. More than 70% of the current nurse leaders are likely to retire within the next decade. Registered Nurses enroll in the College of Graduate Nursing’s Administrative Nurse Leader Program or Clinical Nurse Leader Program to develop and enhance their leadership competencies. College of Graduate Nursing students learn to lead within and between various systems. College of Graduate Nursing’s programs emphasize leadership as a way of being rather than just as the way of doing. Our students become leaders regardless of title. Their role helps further define their leadership identity.
Your gift helps defer the expense of attending graduate school and establishes the importance of a registered nurses’ professional identity as a leader. Please give today.
– Marci Luxenburg-Horowitz, DNP, RN, CNL
Please help shape the identity for nurses seeking the Master of Science in Nursing with a role concentration of Ambulatory Nursing. Your support of the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) campaign helps solidify the important identity of professional nurses seeking to become experts in ambulatory nursing. Care delivered outside acute care settings has continued to increase, and CGN was the first program in the country to offer ambulatory specialists at the graduate level.
Your gift helps defer the expense of attending graduate school and establishes importance of a registered nurse’s professional identity as an ambulatory specialist. Please give today.
– Dawn Stone, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, COHN-S
Please help shape the professional identity for tomorrow’s Family Nurse Practitioners by supporting the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) campaign. College of Graduate Nursing’s long history of innovation brought forth the first web-accessible NP education model in the nation.
Family Nurse Practitioner students enter either a 1- or 2-year program of study, and, upon completion, are eligible for national certification. This advanced practice role is rigorous and demanding. Transitioning from professional registered nurse to assuming the identity of an advanced practice nurse, is equally rigorous and demanding. The program instills core values of leadership, caring for the vulnerable, and the ability to practice at the fullest extent of the Family Nurse Practitioner scope of practice.
Your gift helps defer the expense of attending graduate school and establishes the importance of a family nurse practitioner’s professional identity. Please give today.
– Joey Dang, MSN, RN, FNP-C
Please help shape the professional identity for tomorrow’s Emergency Nurse Practitioners by supporting the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) campaign. The College of Graduate Nursing’s long history of innovation brought forth the first web-accessible Family Nurse Practitioner education model in the nation. That tradition continued with the launch of California’s first Emergency Nurse Practitioner certificate program in 2018.
Students entering the Emergency Nurse Practitioner certificate option are already Family Nurse Practitioners. These individuals are seeking additional skills and clinical opportunities to develop new competencies to treat patients in urgent care and emergency department settings.
Your gift helps defer the expense of attending graduate school and establishes the importance of a registered nurse’s professional identity as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Please give today
– Donna Emanuele, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, CNS, FAANP
Please help shape the professional leadership identity for tomorrow’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students by supporting the Welcome Incoming Nursing Students (WINS) campaign. CGN’s long history of innovation brought forth the first accredited DNP program in Southern California.
The need for DNPs only grows as the health care delivery system continues to evolve. The DNP program is rigorous and demanding. The program instills core values of leadership, caring for the vulnerable, and the ability to practice at the fullest extent of licensure. Graduates of the DNP program are leaders in advanced practice, administration, education, and evidence-based practice.
Your gift not only helps defer the expense of attending nursing school, and establishes the importance of a doctorally-prepared registered nurse’s professional identity. Please give today.
– Donna Emanuele, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, CNS, FAANP