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The Next Generation of Nursing Begins at The Beach!
NOW is the Time: Long Beach State Nursing Leads the Way
Since 1965, the Long Beach State University School of Nursing has been dedicated to tranforming lives by educating and empowering students to become nurse clinicians, scholars, and leaders to improve healthcare outcomes for all individuals and communities we serve. Today, our more than 11,000 alumni are making a profound impact across California and beyond -- leading in hospitals, community clinics, laboratories, and boardrooms. Equipped with a rigorous academic foundation, they are delivering lifesaving care, advancing groundbreaking research and therapies, and shaping the future of healthcare.
Our vision for the future of healthcare is to expand our reach by deepening hands-on clinical training, advancing academic excellence, and accelerating innovative research to address the critical shortage of nurses and health professionals prepared to meet the evolving needs of an aging and increasingly diverse population鈥攄elivering compassionate, life-saving care when and where it's needed most.
To turn our vision into reality, we must invest in our students, faculty, programs, and facilities. We鈥檙e calling on our dedicated donors, alumni, community partners, and friends of the University to join us in shaping the next chapter of our transformation. Together, we can build a stronger, healthier future for all.
馃帗 Empower Student Success
- Invest in student scholarships
- Integrate your-round mental health services
馃懇鈥嶐煆 Advance Faculty Recruitment and Retention
- Establish new endowed chairs and professorships
- Increase faculty resources and infrastructure to expand student growth
馃敩 Expand Future Ready Facilities & Technology
- Support the School鈥檚 simulation facilities to elevate educational excellence
- Upgrade and expand classrooms and support student spaces to foster innovation
猸愶笍 Elevate Program Excellence
- Establish a standardized patient program to equip students with practice-readiness upon hire
- Invest in program capacity to increase number of qualified nursing students entering the School
