Overview | Mission Statement & Accreditation | Dept. Contact Information

California State Colleges were brought together as a system by the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960. In 1972, the system became The California State University and Colleges, and in 1982 the system became The California State University (CSU).

California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) is located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley approximately 110 miles north of Los Angeles. It is the only four year institution within a 100 mile radius, is located in the city of Bakersfield, a commercial, medical and educational center for the region with a regional population of 750,000, including the city and the unincorporated areas. Thirty buildings provide classroom, laboratory, administrative and technical support facilities. Enrollment is approximately 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students served by a faculty of nearly 300.

The University is organized into four schools: Natural Sciences, Mathematics (NSM); Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Public Administration, and Education. The Department of Nursing is one of seven departments in the School of NSM.

The Department of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and a Master of Science in Nursing degree. The Department also offers a post-baccalaureate school health services credential program and a post master’s family nurse practitioner certificate program.

CSUB received a 10-year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges following a site visit in October 1999. The undergraduate program and the Family Nurse practitioner option in the graduate program received five years continuing approval by the California State Board of Registered Nursing in 1998. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, and the School Nursing program is approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Courses designed to assist Registered Nurses to complete the requirements of the baccalaureate degree are taught at the Bakersfield campus and at two distant community colleges: College of the Sequoias in Visalia (85 miles north of Bakersfield) and Antelope Valley in Lancaster (90 miles east of Bakersfield).

FACULTY

The Department’s nursing faculty are highly qualified nurse scholars and educators prepared in research and practice of their respective nursing disciplines. Faculty meet the California Board of Registered Nursing expectations for clinical competence, the University and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education’s expectations for scholarship, teaching, practice and leadership.  

RESOURCES

The Department maintains three technical areas for nursing students in the Nursing Romberg Building on the CSUB campus. These are a nursing skills laboratory, a computer laboratory and three smart classrooms to support multiple forms of technology-assisted classroom instruction. The nursing arts laboratory has 13 patient care learning stations, and the computer lab contain videotapes, PCs and Macintosh computers, instructional software, multimedia software and diagnostic equipment for teaching learning and practice exercises. 

CSUB NON-DISCRIMINATION AND NONHARASSMENT POLICY

The Department of Nursing follows the CSUB policy on non-discrimination and non harassment and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, handicap, color, marital status, sexual or national origin.     

 CSUB’S COMMUNITY PARTNERS

 Undergraduate and graduate students practice their nursing skills at 123 locations in Bakersfield and in the surrounding Kern Country area. These facilities include hospitals, health clinics, schools, physicians’ offices, public health agencies, homeless shelters, hospices, and specialty care centers.