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  Jun 07, 2025
 
2010-2011 USC Salkehatchie Bulletin 
    
2010-2011 USC Salkehatchie Bulletin [Archived Catalog]

Nursing-Generic, B.S.N.



Learning Outcomes College of Nursing 
Curriculum  

Learning Outcomes


  • Students will exhibit professional behavior in the classroom as listed in the Undergraduate Student Handbook and course syllabi.
  • Students will exhibit professional behavior in all clinical activites as listed on the Clinical Evaluation Form.
  • Students will apply knowledge from pharmacology, fundementals, medical-surgical, pediatrics, obstrectics, and psychiatry in patient care.
  • Students will asess, plan, implement, evaluate, and revise care for assigned patients based on best evidence.
  • Students will identify cultural patterns which influence health care beliefs, practices, and behaviors.
  • Students will incorporate culturally sensitive nursing in the plan of care.
  • Students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to perform clinical reasoning and to make clinical judgments.
  • Students will incorporate clinical reasoning in nursing interventions and plans of care.
  • Students will implement the nursing process in the clinical experience.
  • Students will apply concepts of informatics in the nursing process.
  • Students will coordinate care for patients and clients.
  • Students will integrate and apply interdisciplinary information in the nursing process.
  • Students will integrate and apply leadership roles in clinical practice.

Curriculum


See College of Nursing  for entrance requirements, progression requirements, and other regulations.

Degree Requirements (128 Hours) (82 Major Hours)


Note:


All lower division courses must be completed before progression to the upper division.

Upper Division Courses (64 Total Hours):


    General Education Requirements


    General education course selections must meet University general education requirements.

    History:


    3 Hours

    Fine Arts:


    3 Hours

    Social Sciences:


    Two courses from one of these, one course must cover life-span content:

    Sociology
    or
    Psychology

    Analytical Reasoning:


    To be satisfied in one of the following ways:

    Foreign Language:


    Students must demonstrate ability in a foreign language equivalent to that obtained by two years of high-school study of one language. This ability may be demonstrated by placing at level two or higher on the Foreign Language Placement Exam for the language studied in high school. Those failing to do so must satisfactorily complete equivalent study of a foreign language at USC. These students must pass 109 and 110 in French, German, Latin, or Spanish or 121 and 122 in any of the other languages.

    Electives: