Building the Future of Nursing

Nursing Education Building Donor Installation

Light the way. Leave your mark.

Soon, the heart of the new Nursing Education Building, its two-story Commons, will be transformed by a beautiful cascade of shimmering acrylic pendants. Visible from the entrance, the courtyard and throughout the lobby, this installation will become one of Carolina Nursing’s signature landmarks. This is your chance to be part of it!

For $500 (one-time or monthly payment options available), you can purchase an individually inscribed pendant to:

Honor a Carolina Nurse
Celebrate a graduation or milestone
Recognize a mentor
Memorialize a loved one
Leave your own legacy at Carolina Nursing

Each pendant becomes a beautiful symbol representing the people who lift, inspire, and sustain our profession. Learn more or purchase your pendant today!

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At no time in history has the need to support the UNC School of Nursing been more urgent. As we face new and unprecedented global health crises, as our population ages, and as our health care workforce diminishes, nurses are becoming ever more central to the health and wellbeing of those in our communities.

As a leading provider of bedside nurses and nurse practitioners, educators, researchers and leaders devoted to public health and access, the UNC School of Nursing is uniquely positioned to serve the front lines of the most pressing health care challenges we face today.

Our critical barrier to further action? Resources.

More Nurses for North Carolinians

Our state and our country are in critical need of more highly skilled nurses in the workforce. It is estimated that by 2033 there will be a shortfall of 12,500 nurses throughout North Carolina alone. This shortage will continue to challenge the ability of our health care systems to provide the proactive and personalized care that every patient deserves.

12,500

Predicted shortage of registered nurses in N.C. by 2033

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Predicted shortage of nurse educators in N.C. by 2033

Carolina Nursing wants to help address this need but faces frustrating physical limitations to doing so, including the size, condition, and outdated technology of its current facilities. To meet the projected demand for nurses by graduating more new nurses, Carolina Nursing is constructing a new Nursing Education Building.

Construction Live-stream

Watch our progress

The construction project to build a new home for Carolina Nursing is underway. View the live stream of the project site to watch the Nursing Education Building take shape. Please click the link below and use these login credentials to access the live-stream:

Username: Carrington
Password: ChapelHillNC

Live Stream

A New Home For Carolina Nursing

A new home for Carolina Nursing provides at once a thrilling opportunity and a weighty responsibility: to design a building that not only represents, but fosters, the quality and reputation of the program it houses.

This world-class facility will increase the school’s overall space by 20,000 square feet and provide a modern structure complete with the latest technologies to better prepare students.

The new building will enable an increase in class size each year, which means more Carolina Nurses entering the workforce each year to provide quality, compassionate care on the frontlines of our health care systems.

Help us build a new home for Carolina Nursing

Building the Future of Nursing

With partial funding from the state of North Carolina in hand, we now need private partners who understand the critical role a new facility will play in promoting the health and well-being of patients for years to come.

Check out our campaign booklet to learn how you can help us build a new home for Carolina Nursing. You can make a difference today but making a gift online or completing our commitment form.

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New Nursing Education Building breaks ground

“Get ready.”

These words were the invitation to imagination that keynote speaker William E. “Bill” Conway Jr. had for the UNC School of Nursing faculty, staff, alumni, students and donors who packed The Blue Zone Concourse Club on Oct. 25 to celebrate the groundbreaking of a building that will represent a dynamic future for nursing and nursing education in the state – a future that Conway said holds more than we can know.