Academic Honors

Undergraduate Honors Program

The Mount Carmel College of Nursing Honors Program is designed to:

• cultivate an appreciation for lifelong learning for exceptional students

• motivate students in the pursuit of graduate study;

• provide exceptional students with opportunities for challenging study; and

• provide faculty development opportunities to work with exceptional students.

The Honors Program consists of one nursing seminar. This nursing seminar replaces the required three credit hour nursing seminar in the curriculum.

Students are eligible to enter the program after the completion of Nursing 204/294. Students must have earned a 3.75 GPA at the time of invitation. Upper-level transfer students must complete a minimum of one semester of coursework at MCCN to be eligible for the Honors Program. Students must maintain at least a 3.50 GPA to retain Honors Status in their program.

Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing is an organization committed to fostering excellence, scholarship, and leadership in nursing. The Honor Society promotes the use of nursing research in health care and provides resources to communicate the latest knowledge in nursing care. Mount Carmel’s Rho Omicron chapter, chartered in 2002, is one of 478 chapters around the world.

Those invited to make an application to Sigma Theta Tau International include students who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, academic integrity, and professional leadership potential. The criteria for membership include:

• All candidates must meet the expectation of academic integrity.

• Undergraduate students must have completed at least one-half of the nursing curriculum and rank in the upper 35% of the graduating class.

• RN-BSN students must have completed 12 credit hours at MCCN, at least one-half of the nursing curriculum, and rank in the upper 35% of the graduating class.

• Graduate students must have completed a minimum of one-fourth of the graduate nursing curriculum.

  • Academic Achievement – Students that have a cumulative grade point average below 3.5 (or an equivalent of this measure) but have a nursing major grade point average of 3.5 or higher or the equivalent of this measure. Exception Limit – In any one induction period, exceptions may not exceed ten (10) percent of the total number of inductees. 

  • Curriculum – Students short a few credits of completing at least one quarter of the required curriculum. Exception Limit – In any one induction period, exceptions may not exceed ten (10) percent of the total number of inductees. 

Sigma. (2023, August). Induction numbers and exceptions, Sigma Nursing. https://www.sigmanursing.org.