Nursing is a blend of art and science which requires not only a full requisite of scientific clinical knowledge and skills, but a caring attitude with the willingness to serve others.

The School of Nursing at Southern has been educating caring Christian nurses since the first class of baccalaureate students were admitted to the Collegedale campus in 1956. Since that first class graduated in 1960, more than 3,500 Southern nursing alumni have or are currently serving in numerous capacities around the globe.

Our current nursing majors, more than 400, desperately need more classrooms and larger on-campus skills and computer laboratory facilities to facilitate maximum benefit from faculty-student interactions and to continue the tradition of excellence in Christian nursing education at Southern. The proposed addition and renovation of Herin Hall into the new Center for Nursing will provide a facility which matches the strength of our program.