Traditional Nursing B.S. Program

The undergraduate nursing curriculum is grounded in both the knowledge of the discipline of nursing and the science of evidenced-based practice. A holistic view of the person is fundamental to the study of nursing, which has the goal of promoting health throughout the wellness/illness/death continuum, within the context of internal and external environments.

Required courses provide the opportunity for the student to develop aptitude in: critical thinking, ethical decision making, complex information processing, establishing/maintaining therapeutic relationships, providing/coordinating care, interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural sensitivity, and self-appraisal.

During the first two years of the undergraduate nursing curriculum, students complete college core and prerequisite liberal arts and science courses, and participate in non-credit nursing seminars that provide an introduction to the discipline.

After being admitted to the nursing courses in the junior year, students engage in the study/practice of nursing theory and evidence-based clinical coursework in the specialties of nursing care including community, adult, child, psychiatric, and women's health. Knowledge and practice are specialized and progressively more complex each semester, culminating in a precepted clinical role transition course in the last semester of the senior year.

Successful advancement through the baccalaureate curriculum equips the student to engage in nursing practice that is responsible/accountable, ethical, holistic, technologically competent, scholarly, therapeutic, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, collaborative, innovative, and outcome oriented. The baccalaureate graduate is prepared to assume an entry-level nursing role in any of the numerous and diverse local, national, and international health care opportunities available to professional nurses.