Nursing Honors Program
The University of Tennessee’s Nursing Honors Program (NHP) includes academically enhanced nursing seminars, courses, and a scholarly project.
The NHP is designed to create an intellectual adventure and enhance the educational experience of high-achieving undergraduate nursing majors. Collaborative relationships with nursing faculty, academically enhanced nursing courses, and small-group seminars provide students with opportunities to develop a scholarly project and disseminate the findings at university, regional, and national forums. The program provides a strong foundation for baccalaureate students planning to pursue graduate education. The NHP complements university-level honors programs such as the Haslam Scholars and Chancellor’s Honors Programs.
Benefits
- Build relationships with nurse scientists in the College of Nursing and have the opportunity to begin a unique and individual area of scholarship.
- Receive recognition on your transcript that you have completed the honors program.
- Earn an honors medallion to be worn during commencement.
- Prepared for graduate education.
If students are requiring additional coursework for the Haslam Scholars and Chancellor’s Honors Programs, N482 Population Health will be modified to meet those criteria.
Admission Requirements
An invitation to apply to the NHP will be sent to full-time sophomore BSN students in the top 10% of their class by the NHP coordinator. To apply to the program, invited students need to:
- Complete the Nursing Honors Program application by April 1 of their sophomore year
- Submit a short essay.
- Submit a letter of recommendation from a UT faculty member or UT instructor
Note: All students in the Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars program are automatically eligible for the NHP provided they are in good academic standing. They must notify the NHP coordinator by April 1 of their sophomore year of their intent to participate in the NHP.
Students accepted into the program must remain in good academic standing, with a GPA of at least 3.5, and complete all Nursing courses with a minimum grade of B- or better.
Progression Policies and Procedures
Students admitted into the College of Nursing are eligible to continue into upper- division nursing courses if they meet the following criteria:
- complete all required courses in the freshman and sophomore curriculum by July 15th, prior to fall of junior year.
- earn a minimum of 3.20 cumulative grade point average at the conclusion of all required lower-division coursework, including NURS 201 and NURS 319 . (Excess elective credit will not be counted toward this GPA requirement.)
- earn a minimum grade of “C” or better in all courses.
- Submit an Intent to Progress form by the noted deadline in sophomore year.
Failure to fulfill these requirements and deadlines will make a student ineligible to progress to upper-division course work, and the student will be released from the College of Nursing.
