Nursing Programs

At Saint Joseph’s College Maine, nursing isn’t just a profession but a calling – one that our learners have been answering for over a century.

We practice in the newest SIM labs in Maine. We mentor as we teach. We train you in the community as well as the classroom. And we offer nursing leadership training at every career stage. Skills, compassion, and confidence – that’s why our nursing graduates are known as healthcare heroes wherever they provide care.

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Our Immersive Approach

The key to nursing education is having a mixture of hands-on, immersive experiences with real patients and simulation so that you can see a particular patient issue in a safe setting. That’s what you will find at SJC. We prepare students to take licensing examinations through rigorous course content and additional practice examinations.

Build Upon Your Skills

Each year and each course builds upon what you’ve learned. You’ll take the theory you learned in class and apply it to clinical situations. You’ll work directly with patients.

Advance Your Degree While Working

Our graduate online courses are designed to create that knowledge base for a nurse with an advanced degree and build upon the skills you have already learned. Clinical rotations in your community with providers that you know.

Immersive Skills

NP track students come to campus for an immersive skills day where you will learn specific skills related to your area of concentration. You will gain proficiency in these skills in a safe environment taught by experts in the field.

Student Stories

Why Saint Joseph’s College of Maine?

Program Rigor

You’ll be well prepared to function in today’s health care system. You’ll get faculty attention and you’ll be ready.

Ease in Continuing Your Career

It’s easy to continue on. You can start in undergraduate program and if you have a desire to do more, come back to our graduate program. You’ll get the same vigor in all programs.

Immersive Activities

At the undergraduate level, clinical rotations, simulation labs, and health assessment labs. At the graduate level: clinical rotations in your community with providers that you know, and in person immersive skills day.

Accreditation

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, the master’s degree program in nursing and the post-graduate APRN certificate program at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington DC 20001, 202-887-6791. ccneaccreditation.org

The pre-licensure baccalaureate program is approved by the Maine State Board of Nursing.

BSN

NCLEX Pass Rate 90.63%

Acute Care NP

NCLEX Pass Rate 100%

FNP

NCLEX
Pass Rate
90%

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Recent Employers

Maine Medical Center

Central Maine Medical Center

Spring Harbor

United Healthcare

Maine College of Health Professions

Hebron Academy

Saint Joseph’s College

Faculty

Amy Bergeron, DNP, MSN, BSN
Instructor
Vanessa Marcelle, DNP, AGACNP-BC
Assistant Professor, Lead Faculty AGACNP Program
Rachelle Mack, MSN
Nursing Adjunct Faculty
Yvette Lowery, DNP, MSN/Ed, FNP-C, CCNR, CEN, PCCN
Program Director, Graduate Nursing
Kelly Hudock, CRNP, DNP
Chair of Nursing
Martha DeCesere, PhD, MSN, RN
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Charity Cerminara, MSN
Nursing Instructor
Terry Girouard-Jordan
Undergraduate Program Director

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