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About the Department
The Department of Family and Community Health is a national leader in education, research, clinical practice, advocacy and policy.
The department is internationally recognized for its faculty research expertise in occupational and environmental health and houses the SON's first Center of Excellence. Faculty involved in the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Justice support opportunities for doctoral student research and are currently focusing on issues that include violence prevention and musculoskeletal disorders in health care workers, the greening of health care and social justice.
The department plays a key role in the preparation of BSN students, offering four of the five clinical courses that are required for graduation: Nursing of Children, Nursing of the Childbearing Family, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Community Health Nursing.
Clinical and practicum opportunities for students in the BSN and MS programs are available in the SON's nurse-managed Clinical Enterprise sites as well as in acute and primary care settings, businesses and state and federal agencies throughout the Baltimore-Washington area.