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Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Philosophy

The nursing program philosophy contains the faculty's beliefs about nursing and nursing education.

 

The faculty believes that caring is the essence of nursing.  Caring in the human health experience is the focus of the discipline of nursing.  Caring is a relational process in which the aim is to nurture the wholeness of persons, including faculty, students, colleagues, and patients.  Caring has both spiritual and ethical dimensions.  Spirituality involves creativity and choice and is revealed in support, empowerment, growth, and hope in caring practice.  The crucial part of ethical caring focuses on promoting the good and functions as the compass in the nurses? choice making.

 

In transpersonal caring, the nurse seeks to connect with the spirit of another in a mutual search for meaning and wholeness.  Through transpersonal caring, the nurse develops a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship with a client or patient to facilitate healing.  The transpersonal nurse centers consciousness and intentionality on caring, healing, and wholeness, rather than on disease, illness, and pathology.  Transpersonal caring calls for an authenticity of self, an ability to be present to self and others in a reflective frame.  Caring in practice is developed and known through reflection-on-experience.

 

The holographic paradigm in nursing recognizes the interconnectedness of all things, and that everything is a whole in one context and a part of the whole in another context.  Spiritual/ethical caring infuses all nursing phenomena, including physical, social-cultural, legal, technological, economic, political, and educational structures.  The holographic paradigm, based on the reality of practice, introduces the spiritual and ethical dimensions of caring to the whole of nursing.  

 

Learning Outcomes

 

Critical Thinking

  1. Integrate empirical, ethical, and personal knowledge to provide caring in the human-health experience.
  2. Use critical clinical decision-making to provide nursing care for individuals, groups, families, and communities.
  3. Analyze and evaluate research findings for application to best nursing practice.

 

Communication

  1. Collaborate and communicate with other professionals and community resource groups to promote the health, safety, and well being of the community and its members.
  2. Facilitate change in meeting current and future societal health needs through the use of leadership skills and knowledge of the healthcare system.

 

Effective Citizenship

  1. Develop helping-trusting, authentic caring relationships with clients/patients to facilitate healing.
  2. Assume professional responsibility and accountability through reflection on experience, for own nursing practice within legal and ethical standards.
  3. Create a therapeutic and caring environment that facilitates promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health for culturally diverse individuals of all ages.
  4. The initial degree will require students to complete a total of 128 credits to include core and major requirements and 56 upper division nursing major requirements.

 

Admission Requirements

To establish eligibility for admission into the nursing program, students must have the following:

 

  1. A cumulative GPA of all coursework of 2.5 or above and a nursing program-specific GPA of 3.00 or above.  (Those students with less than a 3.00 GPA will be evaluated on an individual basis.)
  2. Courses completed with a grade “C-“ or lower will not be considered for transfer.
  3. A student must complete all prerequisite course requirements prior to entry into the upper division major.
  4. Score on TEAS preadmission test.
  5.  Enrollment in the nursing program may be limited.

 

Retention Requirements

  1. All students must earn a grade of "C" or higher in each course (including clinical courses) used to complete the nursing degree to continue in the program.
  2. Maintain at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA.

NOTE: Students are required to provide some materials.  In addition, students must provide for their own health insurance, as well as their own transportation to clinical sites.  Students must also provide documentation that they have met various health requirements.  A hepatitis vaccination series, and a rubella vaccine or titer, are required prior to entry into the nursing major.  Other immunizations and a yearly TB test may be required prior to admission.  Current CPR certification is required for all students during their junior and senior year.

 

 

Curriculum

I.       College Core Curriculum ....................................................................... 31-36

A. English (3-6 credits)

  1. ENG 101 – Composition I ...................................................................... 3
  2. ENG 102 – Composition II ..................................................................... 3
Note: Students who place in ENG 102 are not required to complete ENG 101.

B. Study and Technology Skills (2 credits) - Refer to Study & Technology Skills section of the Core Curriculum.

C. Mathematics (3 credits)

  1. MATH 124 – College Algebra..................................................................... 3

D. Natural Science (7-8 credits)

  1. BIOL 189 – Fundamentals of Life Science ................................................................... 4
  2. CHEM 121 – General Chemistry I...................................................................... 4

E. Social Sciences (3 credits)

Choose one course from:
  1. ANTH 101 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology .............................................. 3
  2. SOC 101 – Principles of Sociology.......................................................................... 3

F. Fine Arts, (3 credits) - Refer to the Fine Arts, section of the Core Curriculum

G. Humanities (6 credits)

  1. COM 101 – Fundamentals of Speech Communication............................................... 3 (NOTE: This course is required.) -
  2. Refer to the Humanities section of the Core Curriculum ............................................ 3

H. Constitution (3 -4 credits) - Refer to the Constitution section of the Core CurriculumII.    

Additional College Requirements .............................................................................. 1-3

A.  NURS 111 – Medical Terminology (RN exempt) ................................................... 1

B. NURS 408 – Transitions in Professional Nursing (RNs only)................................. 3 

III.    Major Requirements .................................................................................................. 88

A. Natural Sciences (19 credits)

  1. BIOL 223 – Human Anatomy and Physiology I....................................................... 4
  2. BIOL 224 – Human Anatomy and Physiology II ..................................................... 4
  3. BIOL 251 – Microbiology......................................................................................... 4
  4. CHEM 220 – Introductory Organic Chemistry.......................................................... 4
  5. NUTR 223 – Principles of Nutrition ......................................................................... 3

B. Social Sciences (6 credits)

  1. PSY 101 – General Psychology ................................................................................ 3
  2. PSY 201 – Development Across the Lifespan........................................................... 3

C. Statistical Methods (3 credits)

  1. PSY 210 – Statistical Methods .................................................................................. 3
D. Upper-Division Nursing Requirements (55 credits)
  1. NURS 301 – Health Assessment ............................................................................... 4
  2. NURS 317 – Introduction to Human Care Nursing: Theory...................................... 4
  3. NURS 318 – Introduction to Human Care Nursing: Practice .................................... 5
  4. NURS 331 – Pathophysiology/Pharmacology I......................................................... 3
  5. NURS 332 – Pathophysiology/Pharmacology II........................................................ 3
  6. NURS 343 – Human Care Nursing I: Theory ........................................................... 4
  7. NURS 346 – Human Care Nursing I: Practice .......................................................... 5
  8. NURS 304 – Human Care Nursing I: Lab................................................................. 1
  9. NURS 418 – Essentials of Research in Nursing ........................................................ 3
  10. NURS 435 – Human Care Nursing in the Community: Theory................................. 4
  11. NURS 438 – Human Care Nursing in the Community.............................................. 5
  12. NURS 441 – Nursing Management/Leadership: Theory........................................... 3
  13. NURS 450 – Nursing Leadership Practicum.............................................................. 2
  14. NURS 453 – Human Care Nursing II: Theory .......................................................... 4
  15. NURS 454 – Human Care Nursing II: Practice ......................................................... 5

 

Summary of credit requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing

College Core Curriculum Requirements........................................................................... 31-36

Additional College Requirements........................................................................... 1-3

Major Requirements .............................................................. 82

Electives ..................................................................................... 7-14

Total Credits............................................................................ 128