Entry Level Course Requirements

General Education

Course Semester Hours
Written communication (Any written communications course) 3
Social behavioral sciences (One PSYC, one SOC, Human Growth and Development) 9
Humanities (Any ARTS, HIST, HUMN, LITR PHIL, or foreign language) 3
Natural/physical sciences (Anatomy and physiology, at least 6 semester hours with lab (5 semester hours of anatomy and physiology with 3 semester hours of biology may be substituted); chemistry, at least 3 semester hours; microbiology, at least 3 semester hours) 12
General Education elective (Any college-level ENC, MAT, PSYC, SOC, ARTS, HIST, HUMN, LITR, PHIL, or foreign language course * courses beginning with 00 are not considered college level) 3
Total 30

Course requirements that must be completed at NSU

Course Semester Hours
PHS 4904 Advanced Anatomy for Health Professions 4
NUR 3000 The Nurse as a Scholar 3
NUR 3160 Introduction to Professional Nursing 3
NUR 3130 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice 6
NUR 3029 Foundations of Health Assessment 3
NUR 3032 Foundations of Pathophysiology 3
NUR 3180 Primary Concepts of Adult Nursing 6
NUR 3191 Pharmacological Basis for Nursing Interventions I 2
BHS 3110 Health Care Ethics 3
NUT 3000 Nutrition for the Health Professionals 3
NUR 4110 Advanced Concepts of Adult Nursing II 6
NUR 3192 Pharmacological Basis for Nursing Interventions II 2
NUR 3020 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice 3
BHS Elective (or nursing elective **) 3
NUR 4130 Concepts of Maternal-Child Nursing and Families 5
NUR 4160  Genetics for Nursing Practice 2
NUR 3200 Biostatistics for Nursing Practice 3
NUR 3250 Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing 4
NUR 4150 Concepts of Community-Based Nursing Practice 4
NUR 3175 Nursing in Today’s Healthcare Environment 3
NUR 3050 Applied Nursing Research 3
NUR 4020 The Nurse as a Leader and Manager 3
NUR 4030 The Business of Health Care 3
NUR 4120 Advanced Concepts of Adult Nursing III 5
NUR 4180 Nursing Practicum 6
Total 121