Nursing Curriculum Guide
How this site supports your nursing coursework — UD, Delaware Tech & DSU.
Delaware Health Data Vault
dehealthdatavault.org
For Delaware Nursing Students
Your Nursing Courses, Mapped to Real Delaware Health Data
This guide shows how the free datasets and tools on the Delaware Health Data Vault support specific courses across three Delaware nursing programs — University of Delaware, Delaware Technical Community College, and Delaware State University. Find your course, then find the data.
Free resources for every nursing student
33+ Curated Datasets
Real Delaware data — hospital discharges, opioids, chronic disease, insurance, and more. Downloadable as CSV/Excel.
AI Dataset Assistant
Ask a question in plain English and get pointed to the right dataset for your assignment.
5-Step Research Guide
From picking a topic to citing your sources — built for capstones and EBP papers.
6 Project Ideas
Each with a research question and suggested datasets, rated by difficulty.
Dashboard & Trend Explorer
Interactive charts with forecasting for county, demographic, and cross-state comparisons.
News & Digest
Current Delaware health-policy news plus AI-generated executive summaries.
University of Delaware
Traditional BSN
The whole portal is a Delaware population-health data resource — start here.
Disease prevalence, mortality, and neurological comparisons to ground pathophysiology in local data.
Preventive-care and screening indicators (BRFSS, PLACES) show who is — and isn't — getting assessed.
Health-equity and SDOH data make ethics case studies concrete and Delaware-specific.
Infant mortality, teen birth, and KIDS COUNT data for family-focused assignments.
Opioid prescribing and PDMP data connect pharmacology to the overdose crisis.
Real trend data + forecasting tools to practice interpreting rates and projections.
Core match — our Repository, AI Assistant, Research Guide, and curated datasets are built for EBP assignments.
Behavioral health, substance-use, and mental-health service-utilization data.
Child well-being, immunization, and family datasets for pediatric coursework.
Infectious-disease surveillance, SDOH, and cross-state benchmarking.
County-level SDOH profiles, HPSA shortage areas, and workforce data for community assessments.
Workforce shortages, cost, and policy data to inform leadership and advocacy.
The entire site is a capstone data resource — from topic selection to cited analysis.
Delaware Technical Community College
RN to BSN
Real trend data + forecasting tools to practice rate interpretation and projections.
Health-equity and SDOH datasets ground ethical analysis in Delaware reality.
Infectious-disease surveillance and cross-state/national benchmarking.
County trend charts and SDOH profiles for community-level analysis.
Core match — Repository, AI Assistant, Research Guide, and curated datasets for EBP projects.
Mortality, prevalence, and neurological comparison data by county.
Workforce shortages, cost, and policy data to support leadership reasoning.
Hands-on data tools — dashboard, dataset export, and AI Assistant for informatics practice.
Coverage gaps, workforce, and policy-relevant datasets to inform advocacy.
Core match — the whole site as a capstone data resource, from topic to cited analysis.
Delaware State University
BSN (Professional Phase)
Mortality and disease-prevalence datasets connect basic sciences to Delaware health outcomes.
Leading causes of death, chronic-disease prevalence, and neurological comparisons.
BRFSS and PLACES preventive-care and screening indicators.
Opioid prescribing, PDMP, and substance-use data.
Core match — Repository, AI Assistant, Research Guide, and curated datasets for research projects.
County SDOH profiles, HPSA shortage areas, and workforce data for community assessments.
Workforce shortages, cost, and policy data to inform leadership decisions.
Live news feed, AI insights, and digest summaries on current Delaware health topics.
Demographic breakdowns and SDOH by race, ethnicity, and county.
Core match — the whole site as a capstone data resource, from topic to cited analysis.
Ready to start?
Visit the student section for curated datasets, a step-by-step research guide, and project ideas tailored to nursing coursework — free, no login to browse.
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Tip: in the print dialog, choose "Save as PDF" as the destination to download a copy. Curriculum references are based on published program pages (Aug 2026) and may change — verify current course lists with your advisor.