The junior/senior-level Traditional BSN program is four semesters long and provides learning experiences in a variety of clinical settings. The Accelerated BSN program prepares students with a baccalaureate degree in another field for entrance into the nursing profession with a BSN. The RN to BSN program prepares those current Registered Nurses who have previously earned an associate degree.
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The nursing education programs offered at UF address gaps in the health care system, as do the college’s innovations in technological resources and initiatives linking students to diverse and international populations. The College of Nursing has a history of pioneering leadership in nursing education, having offered Florida’s first nurse practitioner programs and first PhD in Nursing Science program.
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The College of Nursing prepares baccalaureate nurses to care, lead and inspire. Nursing courses include classroom and laboratory activities correlated with supervised clinical experiences. Students may be required to travel outside of Gainesville for selected clinical experiences.
The curriculum is logically organized from simple to complex so that students acquire the cognitive, affective, and technical competencies of a professional nurse. Students are required to demonstrate competence at each semester in sequence to progress to more advanced concepts and skills. Knowledge from general education courses, nursing preprofessional courses, and introductory nursing courses is integrated and refined as student progress through increasingly complex theoretical nursing content and clinical application courses.
Courses in the first two semesters focus on foundational knowledge and principles of personalized nursing care. Students gain an understanding of the context of contemporary nursing practice, the meaning of professionalism, ethical and legal guidelines, professional values, and standards of professional nursing practice. Course content and concepts are aligned with clinical experiences to develop beginning clinical reasoning. Students acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide evidence-based, safe, cost-effective quality care to achieve optimal health outcomes.
Courses in the final two semesters build upon prior learning and are characterized by increased complexity in content and outcomes. Students enhance clinical reasoning and critical thinking through nursing practice in a variety of settings for individuals across the lifespan, families and other groups, and communities. Learning experiences are designed to enable students to demonstrate leadership, interprofessional collaboration, and advocacy skills that improve the health of diverse individuals and populations. In the final semester, students participate in a project to develop an innovative solution for a problem or issue relevant to professional nursing.
Students must earn minimum grades of C in all required nursing courses and maintain a minimum 2.0 GPA every semester while enrolled. Students may repeat only one required nursing course. Students earning less than a C in any required nursing course may repeat that course only once and on a space-available basis. Students who do not achieve a passing grade on their second attempt in a course will be dismissed from the nursing program. Students may withdraw only once from any required nursing course.
Students are expected to comply with college health policy requirements.
Students in the health professions are held to standards of conduct that exceed those usually expected of university students. Consequently, nursing students are required to demonstrate safe practice in the care of patients and to exercise appropriate judgment as beginning-level professionals, including appropriate demeanor and appearance. Students must adhere to the standards of conduct outlined in the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics and the Florida Nurse Practice Act in addition to the University of Florida College of Nursing handbook. Students can be removed from the nursing curriculum, and/or any college-sponsored programs or organizations, based on violation of professional conduct.
The junior/senior-level Traditional BSN program is four semesters long and provides learning experiences in a variety of clinical settings.
Critical Tracking records each student’s progress in courses that are required for progress toward each major. Please note the critical-tracking requirements below on a per-semester basis.
Equivalent critical-tracking courses as determined by the State of Florida Common Course Prerequisites may be used for transfer students.
The following recommended curriculum plan enables students to satisfy university-wide general education requirements and required preprofessional courses. The plan includes the courses and academic standards (overall GPA and preprofessional GPA) required each semester for continuation in the pre-nursing program and application for admission to the nursing major.
To remain on track, students must complete the appropriate critical-tracking courses, which appear in bold. These courses must be completed by the terms as listed above in the Critical Tracking criteria.
This semester plan represents an example progression through the major. Actual courses and course order may be different depending on the student's academic record and scheduling availability of courses. Prerequisites still apply.
or Principles of Sociology or Developmental PsychologyBSC, CHM, or PHY prefix.
Students are also expected to complete the general education international (GE-N) and diversity (GE-D) requirements. This is often done concurrently with another general education requirement (typically, GE-C, H or S).
Requires External Nursing Skills Test exam score of 800 to pass the course.
The major in Nursing prepares graduates as generalists to provide holistic care that addresses the healthcare needs of diverse individuals, families, communities, and populations across the lifespan. Nursing practice is built on nursing knowledge, theory, and research. Graduates will translate, integrate, and apply knowledge that leads to improvements in patient outcomes.
I = Introduced; R = Reinforced; A = Assessed
| Courses | SLO 1 | SLO 2 | SLO 3 | SLO 4 | SLO 5 | SLO 6 | SLO 7 | SLO 8 | SLO 9 | SLO 10 | SLO 11 |
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| NUR 3106 | I | I | I | ||||||||
| NUR 3066C | I | I | I | I | |||||||
| NUR 3186 | I | I | I | ||||||||
| NUR 3227C | R | I | R | R | R | R | |||||
| NUR 4108 | I | R | R | R | |||||||
| NUR 4467C | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | ||||
| NUR 4768C | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | |||
| NUR 4636C | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | ||||
| NUR 4766C | R, A | R | R | R | R, A | R, A | R, A | R | R, A | ||
| NUR 4815 | R | R, A | R, A | R, A | R, A | R | R, A | R | R | R, A | R |
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