Because of our strengths....

• Students who are motivated, intelligent, committed, and highly capable.
• Faculty who have significant clinical and academic experience, energy, and a commitment to progressive nursing education.
• A curriculum that prepares the nurse of the future and provides a wide variety of clinical experiences available to students, including many community based clinical experiences.

For a satisfying career...

• Outstanding reputation as one of the oldest baccalaureate programs of nursing in the metropolitan area, and one that prepares students for nursing careers and nursing leadership positions.
• The Avila nursing graduate is well prepared to have a successful career as a staff-nurse or clinical nurse specialist and to contribute to nursing through membership and activity in professional nursing organizations.
• Many of our graduates are employed in the following positions of nursing leadership: directors of agencies including home health and long-term care facilities; hospital administrator of a rural community hospital in Kansas; entrepreneur in the field of nurse executive placement; leadership roles of the American Nurses’ Association; executive director of a national research project based in Kansas City to enhance underprivileged family well-being.
• Employment in nursing is plentiful during the current nursing shortage. Students who have established employment relationships with agencies during the nursing program are often hired by the same agency as Registered Nurses or are considered by other agencies to have experience, increasing the likelihood of being hired.

To experience our newly renovated Nursing Education and Resource Center and administrative suite...

• Our state of the art Education and Resource Center provides a simulated hospital environment where students learn to assist patients and provide basic  to intensive nursing skills.
• The Education and Resource Center provides meeting and work space for nursing student study groups and seminar project preparation.