The nursing (BSN) curriculum in UMW’s BSN degree completion program is packed with thrilling and fulfilling coursework! The development of the program has been supported by a grant from the Community Benefit Fund of the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation.
As with most bachelor’s degrees, the nursing (BSN) curriculum requires 120 credits, with a minimum of 30 completed at UMW, including seven nursing courses and three courses in the social science and humanities disciplines. Students must receive a cumulative GPA of at least 2.00 on all UMW work but are encouraged to aim for a 3.0 or higher if planning to continue their nursing education at the graduate level. Required courses are as follows:
Course Descriptions
Central ethical issues in clinical medicine. Topics might include the physician-patient relationship, informed consent and competency, reproductive technology, distribution of scarce medical resources, organ donation, and experimental medicine.
Co-requisite: PHIL 226
Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
Co-requisite: NURS 330
Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment [behavior], that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
Co-requisite: NURS 310
Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
Prerequisites: NURS 310 | Co-requisites: NURS 360
Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Prerequisites: NURS 310, 330 | Co-requisites: NURS 350, 410
U.S. demographics, health workforce shortages, and health inequities necessitate the preparation of nurses able to address systemic racism and pervasive inequities in health care. Thereby improve access and care quality for underrepresented and medically underserved populations.
Prerequisites: STAT 180, NURS 310, 330 | Co-requisites: NURS 350, 360 | 16 Week Course
The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare.
Prerequisites: NURS 310, 330, 350, 360, 410 | Co-requisites: NURS 480, 490
Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population outcomes.
Prerequisites: NURS 310, 330, 350, 360, 410 | Co-requisites: NURS 440, 490
Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practices and professional and regulatory standards.
Prerequisites: NURS 310, 330, 350, 360, 410, 440 | Co-requisites: NURS 440, 480
Participation in activities and self-reflection that fosters personal health, resilience, and well-being; contributes to lifelong learning; and supports the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
Knowledge and Skills
- Examine the concept of professionalism, and beliefs that are fundamental to nursing, include the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.
- Create intra- and inter-professional partnerships characterized by teamwork, collaboration, and communication to deliver high-quality, safe patient care.
- Evaluate healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory practices to influence the allocation of health resources to reduce health disparities.
- Utilize the nursing process when practicing caring, competent, holistic, and patient-centered nursing with diverse individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations, delivered in a variety of settings across the lifespan.
- Evaluate nursing research to determine best practices and translate current evidence into professional nursing practice.
- Formulate plans of care that promote health and prevent disease for individuals, families, groups, populations, and communities in complex situations.
- Synthesize a liberal arts education, knowledge of nursing science, and critical thinking skills to support independent and interdependent decision-making in the practice of professional nursing.
- Demonstrate leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes by promoting safe, high-quality care with a focus on continued evaluation and improvement within a variety of health organizations and systems.
- Utilize information management knowledge and skills by employing technology and information systems to create safe patient care and enhanced decision-making in a variety of health organizations and systems.
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