Nursing
The junior/senior-level program is four semesters long and provides learning experiences in a variety of clinical settings, including community health agencies, clinics, hospitals and homes.
About This Major
- College: Nursing
- Degree: Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Hours for the Degree: 121
- Minor: No
- Website: www.nursing.ufl.edu
Overview
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.
Courses in the first two semesters focus on various states of wellness and illness across the lifespan, including experiences with clients in community and hospital-based settings. Courses in nursing care management, health assessment, genetics, pharmacotherapeutics and pathophysiology provide theoretical content for the application of patient-centered care. Students have the opportunity to analyze a variety of issues in professional nursing practice and health care. Students are also introduced to the process of translating evidence into nursing practice.
The last two semesters focus on nursing as the complexity and vulnerability of clients increases. Each conceptual course is accompanied by the clinical application across the lifespan in a variety of settings.
The transition experience is the culminating clinical experience in the program that provides for integration and synthesis of the professional role, including clinical judgment and leadership skills. A course on the foundations of healthcare policy, including the financial and regulatory environment, supports this transition to professional practice.
Progression
Students must earn grades of C or better in all required nursing courses and maintain at least a 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 in their second attempt at the course must withdraw from the nursing program. Students may withdraw only once from any required nursing course.
Students who withdraw for non-academic reasons may petition for readmission on a space-available basis. The student's academic adviser, department chair, chair of the academic affairs committee and the associate dean for academic and student affairs will develop a revised curriculum plan.
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. Students can be removed from the nursing curriculum, and/or any college-sponsored programs or organizations, based on violation of professional conduct.
To graduate with this major, students must complete all university, college and major requirements.
Critical Tracking and Recommended Semester Plan
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, semesters 1-4, enables students to satisfy universitywide general education requirements (refer to the academic advising section of the catalog) and required preprofessional courses. The plan includes the courses and academic standards (overall GPA and preprofessional GPA) required each semester for continuation in the nursing major.
Semester 1
- 3.0 overall GPA on work (from all institutions)
- Complete 2 tracking courses with grades of C or better: APK 2100C, APK 2105C, DEP 3053 or EDF 3110 (recommended), HUN 2201, MCB 2000/2000L, STA 2023, 3 credits of social and behavioral science with prefix of PSY, SOP or SYG, 3 credits of physical or biological sciences with prefix of BSC, CHM or PHY
- 3.0 GPA on all critical-tracking courses
Semester 2
- 3.1 overall GPA on work (from all institutions)
- Complete 2 additional tracking courses with grades of C or better
- 3.1 GPA on all critical-tracking courses
Semester 3
- 3.2 overall GPA on work (from all institutions)
- Complete 2 additional tracking courses with a grades C or better
- 3.2 GPA on all critical-tracking courses
Semester 4
- 3.3 overall GPA on work (from all institutions)
- Complete all tracking courses with grades of C or better
- 3.3 GPA on all critical-tracking courses
- Complete writing and math requirements
Recommended semester plan
To remain on track, students must complete the appropriate critical-tracking courses, which appear in bold. These courses require grades of C or better.
| Semester 1 | Credits |
| ENC 1101 Expository and Argumentative Writing (GE-C, WR) | 3 |
| Humanities (GE-H, N) | 3 |
| Mathematics (GE-M) | 3 |
| Physical or Biological Science (BSC, CHM or PHY prefix) (GE-P or B) | 3 |
| Social and Behavioral Science (PSY, SOP or SYG prefix) (GE-S) | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Semester 2 | Credits |
| EDF 3110 Human Growth and Development (recommended) or DEP 3053 Developmental Psychology (prerequisite PSY 2012) (both GE-S) | 3 |
| STA 2023 Introduction to Statistics 1 (GE-M) | 3 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Humanities (GE-H, D and WR) | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Semester 3 | Credits |
| APK 2100C Applied Human Anatomy with Laboratory (GE-P) | 4 |
| MCB 2000 and 2000L Microbiology (3) and Microbiology Laboratory (1) (GE-B) | 4 |
| Elective | 3 |
| Humanities (GE-H, WR) | 3 |
| Total | 14 |
| Semester 4 | Credits |
| APK 2105C Applied Human Physiology With Laboratory (GE-P) | 4 |
| HUN 2201 Fundamentals of Human Nutrition (GE-B) | 3 |
| Elective (WR) | 3 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Total | 16 |
| Semester 5 | Credits |
| AGR 4932 Introduction to Genetics and Genomics | 2 |
| NUR 3069C Communication and Health Assessment | 3 |
| NUR 3129 Comprehensive Pathophysiology for Nursing | 3 |
| NUR 3138 Systems of Care 1: Wellness Promotion and Illness Prevention | 3 |
| NUR 3138L Clinical Practice 1: Wellness Promotion and Illness Prevention | 3 |
| NUR 3825 Introduction to the Profession of Nursing | 2 |
| Total | 16 |
| Semester 6 | Credits |
| NUR 3145 Pharmacology for Nursing | 3 |
| NUR 3169 Inquiry and Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice | 3 |
| NUR 3638 Population Focused Care | 2 |
| NUR 3738 Systems of Care 2: Restoration of Wellness | 4 |
| NUR 3738L Clinical Practice 2: Restoration of Wellness | 4 |
| Total | 16 |
| Semester 7 | Credits |
| NUR 3826 Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing | 2 |
| NUR 4739 Systems of Care 3: Restoration of Wellness | 4 |
| NUR 4739L Clinical Practice 3: Restoration of Wellness | 4 |
| NUR 4837 Healthcare Policy, Finance and Regulatory Environments | 2 |
| Elective | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Semester 8 | Credits |
| NUR 4748 Systems of Care 4: Multi-system Care | 4 |
| NUR 4748L Clinical Practice 4: Multi-system Care | 4 |
| NUR 4829 Leadership and Management in Nursing | 2 |
| NUR 4944L Transition to Professional Practice | 4 |
| Total | 14 |
| Optional: Honors | 3 |