Nursing, B.S.N.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• apply quality improvement principles, standards, methods, and strategies to identify health and systems problems and support evidence-based change in practice settings.
• implement a safe, systematic process across settings using evidence-based strategies and standards to promote a just culture of safety and prevent or minimize risk to self, patients, and the environment. 
• demonstrate communication strategies, leadership, and teamwork to intentionally collaborate with interprofessional teams, individuals, groups, and populations across a range of sociocultural settings and to advocate for diverse, equitable, and inclusive care in professional environments. (C)
• use a systematic approach to clinical reasoning based on best evidence, research, and knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to make decisions that optimize the health of populations, the delivery of care across a range of sociocultural settings, and the advancement of the nursing profession. (CT)
• deliver person and population-centered care that is respectful of differing sociocultural needs based on best evidence, clinical judgment, and sound legal/ethical principles to promote plans of care and maximize health for diverse individuals, groups, and populations.
• model a professional identity through personal and professional advocacy that promotes the needs of self, individuals, groups, populations, and the nursing profession while improving the healthcare system.
• use health care technology, data, and information literacy while considering risks and ethical requirements to plan, implement, and evaluate person and population-centered care and assist in system-wide best practice decisions in various settings. (QR)

Practice Ready Program Outcomes

BSN Graduates will be able to:

Category 1: Quality

Apply quality improvement principles, standards, methods, and strategies to identify health and systems problems and support evidence-based change in practice settings.

Category 2: Safety

Implement a safe, systematic process across settings using evidenced-based strategies and standards, to promote a just culture of safety, and to prevent or minimize risk to self, patients, and environment. 

Category 3: IPE and communication 

Demonstrate communication strategies, leadership, and teamwork to intentionally collaborate with interprofessional teams, individuals, groups, and populations across a range of sociocultural settings and to advocate for diverse, equitable, and inclusive care in professional environments.

Category 4: Clinical Reasoning

Use a systematic approach to clinical reasoning based on best evidence, research, and knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to make decisions which optimize the health of populations, the delivery of care across a range of sociocultural settings, and the advancement of the nursing profession.

Category 5: Person and Population Centered Care 

Deliver person and population-centered care that is respectful of differing sociocultural needs based on best evidence, clinical judgment, and sound legal/ethical principles to promote plans of care and maximize health for diverse individuals, groups and populations.

Category 6: The Nurse’s Role 

Model a professional identity through personal and professional advocacy that promotes the needs of self, individuals, groups and populations and the nursing profession while improving the healthcare system.​​​​​​​

Category 7: Health Care and Informatics 

Use health care technology, data, and information literacy, while considering risks and ethical requirements, to plan, implement, and evaluate person and population-centered care and assist in system-wide best practice decisions in a variety of settings

Contact Information

Please Contact OSN Advising for more information.
OSNadvising@unr.edu

Transfer to the University of Nevada, Reno

Use the transfer agreement  and the degree planner (available by clicking  at the top right of this page) to build your plan for graduation with your advisor. Course substitutions not identified on the transfer agreement require UNR advisor approval.

If a major-to-major transfer agreement is not available for your transfer institution, please check the General Core agreement  if available. If neither is available, access Transferology to assist in your planning.

Admission Requirements

The Orvis School of Nursing has a competitive application process that accepts 10-16 applicants once a year, in the Fall semester. The application is open in January, with students applying by invitation only.

1. The applicant must be officially admitted to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) as a declared degree-seeking student. Applicant must possess an NSHE ID number. Students who are not currently active or enrolled at the University of Nevada, Reno will need to reapply. UNR application fee may apply.
2. Applicants in the Dean’s Future Scholars, Community of English- Spanish Speakers programs, and Washoe County School District’s two Career Academies, Academy of the Arts, Careers, and Technology, and Debbie Smith Career and Technical Academy, who have declared nursing or health sciences as a special interest, will be eligible to apply. 
3. Selection to the nursing major is accomplished by a rank-order list of qualified applicants based on a point matrix.  (see OSN website for additional information regarding admission selection criteria).
4. After completing the selection process for the nursing major, students will be sent a letter of provisional acceptance. All selected students must attend a mandatory orientation and accept provisional admission to the nursing major.
5. Letters of non-acceptance will also be sent. 
6. Admission for Upper Division coursework will be confirmed when all criteria have been verified (background check/drug screening, fit for duty documentation, immunizations, BLS certification, liability insurance coverage, and successful completion of all in-progress prerequisite work).

Note: Applicants must complete or have met all UNR Silver Core General Education Curriculum requirements in addition to the nursing prerequisites before entering the nursing major. No grade below “C–” in any core general education requirements will be accepted as applicable to the nursing degree. No grade below a “C” in the nursing prerequisite coursework from the Nursing Point Matrix or Major Requirements will be accepted. Following admission to the nursing major and successful completion of the nursing major coursework, students will receive a B.S.N.

Graduation Requirements

• Total Units | 120
• Cumulative GPA | 2.0
• University GPA | 2.0
• Major GPA | 2.0
• University Residency Requirement | 30 Upper-Division Units at UNR
• Major Residency Requirement | 15 Units of Major Requirements at UNR
• Upper-Division Requirement | 60 Upper-Division Units

I. Core General Education Requirements (25-28 units)

NOTE: Refer to the Core Curriculum chapter of this catalog for information regarding the “Core English and Math Completion Policy .”

Students in this major must meet all Core Objectives (CO1 through CO14). Courses satisfying Core Objectives are designated (e.g., CO9) in General Catalog curricula and course descriptions.

II. Additional Core Requirements (6 units maximum)

Students must take courses that satisfy the following Core Objectives. Some or all of these Core Objectives may be satisfied in the Major Requirements (Section IV).  Refer to the Core Curriculum   chapter in this catalog.

III. Additional College Requirements (29-30 units)

IV. Major Requirements (62 units)

• NURS 301 - Health Assessment of the Individual (3 units) AND
• NURS 301L - Health Assessment of the Individual: Laboratory (1 unit)
• NURS 317 - Nursing Care of the Individual I: Theory (3 units) CO12
• NURS 318 - Nursing Fundamentals Practicum (3 units)
• NURS 331 - Pathophysiology and Pharmacology I (3 units)
• NURS 332 - Pathophysiology and Pharmacology II (3 units)
• NURS 343 - Nursing Care of the Individual I: Theory (3 units)
• NURS 346 - Nursing Care of the Individual I: Practicum (3 units)
• NURS 346L - Nursing Care of the Individual I: Laboratory (1 unit)
• NURS 347 - Nurs Care of Families, Children and Childbearing Ind: Pract (2 units)
• NURS 353 - Nursing Care of Childbearing Women, Children & Fam: Theory (4 units)
• NURS 402 - Communication & Mental Health Theory (2 units)
• NURS 413 - Communication & Mental Health Nursing: Practicum (1 unit)
• NURS 434 - Nursing Care of the Individual II: Practicum (3 units)
• NURS 434L - Nursing Care of the Individual II: Laboratory (1 unit)
• NURS 439 - Nursing Care of the Individual II: Theory (3 units)
• NURS 441 - Nursing Leadership and Management (3 units)
• NURS 453 - Nursing Care of the Individual III: Theory (4 units) CO9
• NURS 454 - Nursing Care of the Individual III: Practicum (2 units)
• NURS 454L - Nursing Care of the Individual III: Laboratory (1 units)
• NURS 466 - Nursing Research (3 units)
• NURS 467 - Informatics, Technology, & Health Policy (3 units) CO9
• NURS 475 - Population Health Theory (3 units) CO10
• NURS 485 - Transitioning to the Professional Nursing Role (3 units) CO14

V. Minor Requirements (0 units)

VI. Electives (0-6 units)

To meet University upper division or credits from a 4-year institution requirement.

• NURS 303 - Rural Health Theory (3 units)

VII. Recommended Schedule

Nursing students are admitted to the major both fall and spring semesters and are enrolled during fall, spring, and summer terms. Many of the courses below have prerequisites that are not listed below.  Prerequisites courses may count toward General Electives.

Additional Information

Please refer to Orvis School of Nursing website at http://www.unr.edu/nursing for detailed information and requirements.