The nursing curriculum for the full time day option is systematically structured, introducing first year students to the discipline of nursing as a profession. In the second year, students are introduced to the individual as a client with social, cultural, spiritual and economic elements that interact to facilitate health. Selected basic therapeutic nursing interventions with supervised on-campus laboratory experiences are taught. Community based experiences take place in various settings, including a mobile healthcare van, a senior citizens' apartment complex, adult day care centers, schools, and clients' homes. Both urban, teaching hospitals and community hospitals provide the setting for rotations in adult acute care.
Pediatric rotations are at large facilities designed for the specific care of children.
Maternal child nursing rotations include a variety of settings and experiences in labor and delivery, postpartum, and nursery. Psychiatric clinical rotations include both outpatient and inpatient units. The final clinical rotation is a three week precepted experience in a specialty area and agency of the student's choice. Nursing students are active in all phases of campus life such as student government, varsity sports, sororities and fraternities, honor societies, and volunteer organizations. The Widener University Student Nurses' Association is affiliated with both the state and national nursing student organizations.