Urbana Campus
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The excellence of UIC's highly ranked nursing programs in the state's Big Ten college town. Heading link
In this hub of education, culture and technology, UIC Nursing students enjoy the activities and resources of the UIUC campus, including Big Ten athletics, performances at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and fun and fitness at the two recreation centers. But the education is pure UIC Nursing, boasting strong clinical partnerships with Carle Foundation Hospital, OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center, the Danville VA Medical Center and numerous other respected healthcare leaders in the area.
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This program has been an amazing opportunity. It consists of some of the best faculty members and professors, and I have such a loving and supportive cohort of peers. I’ve gotten close to many of my professors, and I was even offered the chance to participate in one of my professor’s research teams. The people I’ve met in this program are like family to me.
| BSN Class of 2019
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Krista Jones
DNP ’11, MSN ’07, APRN
Dr. Krista Jones, a board-certified advanced public health nurse, is a clinical associate professor and director of UIC College of Nursing’s Urbana Campus . For the last 17 years, the two-time alumna has instructed undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students enrolled in population-focused nursing, evidence-based practice, professionalism, nursing theory, and leadership and management courses.
Dr. Jones currently leads a team of academic librarians and nurses from population health, acute and clinical agency settings to provide face-to-face and online instructional sessions educating public health nurses on the acquisition, translation and application of evidence to inform their practice. The team has received five cycles of grant funding from the National Libraries of Medicine.
She is a founding member of the Illinois Public Health Nursing Leadership Academic Practice Workgroup, which has developed innovative strategies to address educational needs of new and existing public health nursing workforce. She is also chair of the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, president of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE), president of the Champaign County Board of Health, and chair of the Illinois Nursing Workforce Center Board of Directors.
Dr. Jones has been recognized locally by Carle Foundation Health Systems, statewide by the Illinois Public Health Association, and regionally by the Midwest Nursing Research Society. She has received numerous awards for teaching excellence at UIC. She is also a 2012 recipient of the Illinois Board of Higher Education Nursing Faculty Fellowship and a 2020 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing Program Fellow. In October 2023, she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Alison Orewiler, Program Advisor
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