Graduating the Country's Top Nurses

Through our academic programs and community outreach, the School of Nursing fosters the University's unique mission of focusing on the challenges, needs, and aspirations of vulnerable, underserved urban, and global communities. We believe there is a dynamic relationship between individuals, their environments, and access to quality, culturally sensitive care.

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Our Programs

Rooted in all of our programs is the foundation that nursing is a scientific and clinical practice discipline. We train our students to use evidence-based interventions to promote, maintain, and restore adaptive responses in patients.

There is such a critical need for nursing professionals today—and this need is growing. In addition to this shortage, there is a need for nurses committed to continual growth and serving underserved urban and global communities. Each of our undergraduate and graduate programs speak to this need for culturally sensitive education.

As undergraduates, students begin to demonstrate analytical skills, and increased abilities to incorporate emerging information systems and technology to improve and transform healthcare. Our master’s and doctoral programs continue to build on these undergraduate foundations. Graduates incorporate advanced theory, research, advocacy, leadership and clinical skills with an emphasis on independent and interprofessional practice required to assume responsibility and accountability for the health promotion, assessment, diagnosis, and management of culturally diverse clients' problems across settings.

CCNE Reaccreditation

The Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Board of Commissioners has accredited The Helene Fuld School of Nursing Baccalaureate Nursing program at Coppin State University for 10 years, extending to December 31, 2033.  The accreditation action is effective as of March 8, 2023.  This accreditation validates the integrity and effectiveness of our program in preparing nursing students for success.  It demonstrates our dedication to continuing improvement and innovation, ensuring our curriculum remains relevant and aligns with best practices.  It also highlights our faculty's expertise, dedication, and passion for promoting a dynamic learning environment that fosters potential and transforms lives. 

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Student Learning

The Helene Fuld School of Nursing BSN program is proud to offer many student learning opportunities that provide hands-on experience and emphasize the importance of community service and job placement.  Our programs are designed to empower students to positively impact their communities while developing the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in their future careers.

Through community service initiatives, students can engage with local organizations and participate in meaningful projects that address pressing social issues.  Whether volunteering, organizing a fundraising event, or participating in a service-learning course, students can make a tangible difference in the lives of others while honing their leadership, communication, and teamwork skills.

In addition to community service, we also prioritize our students' job placement and career readiness. Our dedicated faculty works closely with students to provide personalized guidance, resources, and networking opportunities to help ensure full-time employment upon graduation. 

Nursing Departmental Honors Program

The Nursing Departmental Honors Program is an adjunct of the University Honors Program. To be eligible for any Departmental Honors Program, you must be a current nursing student and meet one of the following criteria:

• Have a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average
• Have earned at least 60 credits
• Have successfully completed the General Studies Honors Program.
• Have demonstrated outstanding ability in your field of study

Upon completion of the first 2 years of matriculation in the General Studies Honors Program and with the Dean's approval, nursing students may earn departmental honors through participation in the Honors program.

The work of doctors and nurses is critical to the quality of patient care—but so is the work of health information professionals.

Start Your HIM Career

As one of the fastest growing careers in one of the fastest growing industries, health information (HIM) careers place you where healthcare meets cutting edge technology. By studying health information, you’ll learn versatile clinical, information technology, leadership, and management skills.

Health information professionals use their knowledge of information technology and records management to connect clinicians, administrators, technology designers, and information technology professionals. Our HIM program incorporates medicine, management, finance, information technology, and law into one curriculum. This unique mixture of concepts from multiple industries empowers our graduates to feel ready to work in a variety of settings across an array of healthcare environments.

Our program prepares you to be a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA). Whether you've already earned an associate's degree in HIM, are a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), or are interested in finishing your bachelor's degree, you'll feel at home at Coppin.

Paying for School

School can be expensive, but the good news is that financial assistance may be available for qualified students. If you are looking for federal financial aid in the form of loans, grants, and/or scholarships be sure to complete your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The Federal Student Financial Aid Information Center can also answer financial aid questions at 1-800-433-3243. 

Coppin offers the only accredited HIM bachelor’s degree in Maryland. Students network with field experts and gain practical knowledge by integrating course work with hands-on experiences. Our program is designed to support individual learning and prepare students to be effective health information professionals.

Mona Calhoun, Department Chairperson

Our Health Information Management program provides students with the knowledge and skills to become capable health information management professionals. Coursework emphasizes applying theory to practice. We focus on preparing graduates to meet demands of entry-level positions where they can apply management and problem-solving principles to every aspect of medical and health information systems, regardless of environment.

Health Information (HI) professionals provide reliable and valid information that drives the healthcare industry. Students graduating from this program are specialists in managing patient data, ensuring access and data integrity to authenticated users, coding and classifying data for reimbursement and research, analyzing information that supports decision-making, protecting patient privacy, providing information security, and enhancing the quality and uses for data within health information computer systems.

In-Demand Community-Focused Healthcare

Welcome to the Department of Health Sciences (HSC)! As part of the School of Allied Health, we focus on graduating health science professionals and community health educators. We know that barriers exist to helping individuals, families, and other groups understand health and health problems—that’s where our programs come in.  Our Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences trains future professionals to be community advocates, public health experts, as well as translators and creators of transformational health policy.  

Health Sciences is the foundation for all of health. Students majoring in Health Sciences learn not only the foundations of health but are strongly encouraged to develop their health-related entrepreneurial skills and create their own futures. Become a part of this innovative major that produces change agents and entrepreneurs in all aspects of health. "The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Dr. Yolanda Savoy, Interim Chairperson

School of Allied Health

Welcome to the School of Allied Health in the College of Health Professions (CHP)! Created to meet the growing need for health information professionals, we are the State of Maryland’s only higher education institution to offer an accredited 4-year degree program in Health Information Management (HIM). For students interested in community engagement, our Health Sciences major prepares health education practitioners to be resources that bridge health disparity gaps across communities.

With dedicated faculty, small classes, and state-of-the-art technology and facilities, the School of Allied health has created a student and career-driven learning environment. We are proud the majority of our graduates are ready to enter chosen fields immediately after graduation—often with job offers before the end of their final Coppin semester. It’s just one more way we are meeting our students’ career needs and our country’s need for outstanding health care professionals.

Connected to the Community 

Our connection to our communities runs deep. We are not only invested in the success of our students, staff, and faculty, we are also strongly invested in our surrounding Baltimore communities. The Community Health Center is a love letter to local residents, and serves as a resource that expands access to quality healthcare. Our goal is to improve the health and lives of residents in the communities that surround Coppin.

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If you are a new patient, please click on the link below. You will be presented with a series of registration forms which will create your confidential user profile in our online medical system.

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Connected to the Community 

There have been a lot of technological, clinical, and social improvements to the healthcare industry over the last hundred years. Even with all these great advances, there are still systemic challenges to overcome. At Coppin we're doing our part to make sure quality healthcare is accessible to the communities we call home. The College of Health Professions operates 2 community-based clinics in the Baltimore area:

• Helene Fuld School of Nursing Coppin Clinic at St. Frances
• Community Health Center

Helene Fuld School of Nursing Coppin Clinic at St. Frances

In collaboration with St. Frances Academy, the College of Health Professions, established a local healthcare clinic to serve the healthcare needs of St. Frances administration, faculty, students, staff and local residents. This clinic is based on a forward-thinking approach to increase access to quality healthcare, promote health, prevent disease, and positively impact health outcomes. It also exists to nurture and build community by providing access to education and care for children and adults.

Walk-ins are welcome or call for a phone consultation 24 hours a day.

Clinic Services

• Management of acute and chronic health problems
• Weight management education
• Help getting insurance
• Physical exams
• Women’s health services
• Immunizations

Services are provided by nurse practitioners, faculty and students of the Helene Fuld School of Nursing, and in some instances, by a physician. All professional personnel are properly licensed by the State of Maryland. The clinic serves as a clinical placement for both graduate and undergraduate students.

Community Health Center

The Community Health Center is an on-campus healthcare clinic that provides access to quality healthcare for the Coppin community as well as local Baltimore residents.

Hands-On Practice for Real-World Situations

All the programs in the College of Health Professions incorporate hands-on learning experiences that allow our students to meaningfully connect theory with practice. Through our modern building and simulation facilities, we offer holistic learning experiences that not only help our students excel academically, but also help them translate those skills to patient care and healthcare roles.

We have 2 facilities on campus specifically designed for healthcare simulation:

• SIM Center
• Learning Resource Center

Each simulation laboratory is fully equipped with functioning equipment simulating medical-surgical, pediatric, maternal-child, and community health settings.

What is simulation?

Simulation is an important part of all CHP students’ clinical experience. Our simulation centers offer students extraordinary opportunities to safely practice and learn patient care in a variety of “real world” settings, before treating real patients. Students sharpen clinical skills using high fidelity patient simulators with cutting-edge technology under the guidance and supervision of experienced faculty. With diminishing clinical sites and the needs to foster clinical competence especially among tech savvy students, the use of simulation aims to blend traditional course delivery styles with technological advances. 

The practice of simulation is grounded in experiential learning theory, and focuses on low, medium, and high fidelity clinical strategies. The simulation experiences serve as relevant strategies for achieving the program objectives (Childs & Seeples, 2006).

Low Fidelity Experiences

• Focused case studies
• Role playing
• Virtual clinical excursions and/or task-trainers.

Medium Fidelity Experiences

These learning opportunities offer increased realism through:

• Screen-based simulators
• Synthetic models
• Moulage and live actors.

High Fidelity Experiences

These experiences may include the use of simulators:

• Medical Education Technologies Incorporated (METI)
• Laerdal simulators including the SimMan, SimBaby and additional technologies

How do students participate in simulation?

Students actively engage in simulation experiences as participants or observers. Participant roles may include:  

• Charge nurse 
• Medication nurse 
• Educator 
• Researcher 
• Family member

Simulation Techniques and Facilities

Located on the 4th floor of the Health and Human Services Building (HHSB), our innovative student support facility houses the Learning Resource Center, four clinic examination rooms and a ten room, 26 bed simulation laboratory.

The Sim Center is home to 19 high and low fidelity adult, child and infant simulators. It also has six simulation labs. There are two medical surgical lab high-fidelity simulators (Sim Lab Rooms 403 & 404), two high-fidelity pediatrics/obstetrics simulators (Sim Lab Rooms 406 & 410), and two high-fidelity advanced medical surgical simulators (Sim Lab Rooms 409 & 413). The Resource Center, located in Room 433 with adjoining conference study area in Room 432 are used by faculty and students for scheduled reviews, tutorial sessions and/or teaching practicum learning activities.

Learning Resource Center

The Learning Resource Center (LRC) provides remediation and services to enhance study skills and content retention. The LRC includes an auxiliary library, an adjoining conference room, adjacent study and computer areas, and audiovisual resources.

Student Services Designed for Success

Our goal is simple: we want our students to be successful. We are just one of many resources at Coppin that supports academic, personal, and professional development. Visit our offices, take advantage of our services, and let us know how we can help you realize what success means to you.

Nursing Departmental Honors Program

The Nursing Departmental Honors Program is part of the University Honors Program. To be eligible for any Departmental Honors Program, students must meet 1 of the following criteria:

• Have earned a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and at least 60 credits 

• Successfully completed the General Studies Honors Program 

• Completed 60 or more credits

• Demonstrated outstanding ability in your field(s) of study

Nursing students may earn departmental honors through participation in the Honors program once:

• Completing 2 years in the General Studies Honors Program and
• Getting the CHP Dean's approval

Resource Center

The Resource Center (RC) is a clinical preparatory facility with standard healthcare equipment and computers. Students can safely practice 1-on-1 patient care simulations before entering the workplace as a qualified healthcare professional. 

Junior and Senior Coaching

We use a variety of teaching methods to help students learn and develop specific competencies. Coaching is a model of instruction based on cognitive coaching theory. In this method, a nurse educator/practitioner is not the sole director of the learning experience. Instead, the educator/practitioner serves as a guide and collaborator in the nursing student's learning.

Students have multiple responsibilities during these collaborative coaching sessions. Some of these responsibilities include: 

• Attending weekly coaching session
• Completing all standardized achievement tests (seniors only)
• Creating an individual plan for testing success
• Downloading the current NCLEX-RN Test Plan. The NCLEX-RN is a standardized exam that establishes a nursing candidate's preparedness for entry-level work.
• Developing an individualized remediation plan
• Identifying your test-taking style
• Reviewing test-taking strategies
• Taking NCLEX-RN  practice tests