Traditional Undergraduate Program
The Traditional undergraduate program is designed for beginning students of nursing, including high school graduates and change-of-major students. The School of Nursing is known across the nation as a highly rigorous, academically demanding, and clinically excellent program for the preparation of new nurses.
The curriculum is an innovative clinical immersion format, which maintains high educational standards while focusing the senior year on a clinical immersion experience that will prepare graduates to enter their nursing careers a step ahead of many other nursing graduates.
The Clinical immersion program requires 122 credits for completion and is set up as follows:
- Freshman Experience: Introduction to the profession and clinical skills with essential science and liberal arts courses.
- Sophomore Experience : Development of clinical skills and decision making in nursing through simulation and laboratory experiences.
- Junior Experience: Expansion of nursing knowledge into essential and specialty clinical nursing with associated field experiences.
- Senior Experience: Clinical immersion and enhancement of nursing knowledge for entry into practice.
This sequential curricular development will allow students to build a solid foundation for nursing practice. To support the pre-senior year, a state-of-the-art clinical simulation laboratory and resource center has been created. Students pursue independent and collaborative coursework in the nursing laboratories.
The faculty are committed to providing the highest caliber nursing education possible. The innovative curricular design, laboratory resources, and dynamic faculty provide students with the best educational program.
For program information and simulation lab tours please contact Anne DeCaire, BSN, RN, Recruitment Officer, at (302) 831-0442.
- School of Nursing Undergraduate Spring Tour 2012 Flyer
- Nursing Education Perspectives March / April 2006 Clinical Immersion, A Residency Model for Nursing Education . CYNTHIA A. DIEFENBECK, LISA ANN PLOWFIELD, AND JUDITH W. HERRMAN
- Journal of Nursing Education Nov 2011 - Student-Centered Outcomes Evaluation of the Clinical Immersion Program: Five Years Later. Cynthia A. Diefenbeck, PsyD, APRN, BC; Evelyn R. Hayes, PhD, FNP-BC; Gail H. Wade, PhD, RN; Judith W. Herrman, PhD, RN, ANEF
Undergraduate Application Information
Prospective undergraduates interested in nursing should submit the general undergraduate application and check "Nursing" as a desired major. This application can be viewed on-line.
Curriculum
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 100 – 1 credit
- CHEM 105 – 4 credits
- BISC 207 – 4(H) credits
- PSYCH 100 or HDFS 201 – 3 credits
- University Breadth – 3 credits (H-colloq.)
TOTAL: 15 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 101 – 2(H) credits
- NURS 110 – 1(H) credit
- CHEM 106 – 5 credits
- HDFS 201 or PYSC 100 – 3(H) credits
- ENGL 110 – 3(H) credits
- University Breadth – 3 credits
TOTAL: 17 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 200 – 2 credits
- NURS 235*(H) or STAT 200 – 3 credits
- NURS 241 or NURS 242 – 3 credits
- BISC 276 – 4 credits
- NTDT 200– 3 credits
TOTAL: 15 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 222 – 2(H) credits
- NURS 253 – 3(H) credits
- NURS 241 or NURS 242 – 3 credits
- BISC 300 – 4 credits
- NURS 235* or STAT 200 – 3 credits
TOTAL: 16 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 354 – 3(H) credits
- NURS 362 or FREE Elective – 3 credits
- NURS 372– 3 credits
- NURS 382– 2(H) credits
- NURS 390 – 1 credit
- Free Elective – 3 credits
TOTAL: 15 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 352 – 3 credits
- NURS 356 – 3 credits
- NURS 358 – 3 credits
- NURS 390 – 1 credit
- University Breadth – 3 credits
- NURS 362(H) or FREE Elective – 3 credits
TOTAL: 16 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 453 – 3 credits
- NURS 457 – 3 credits
- NURS 459 or NURS 477– 3(H) credits
- NURS 460 – 2 credits
- NURS 411/412*/414* – 3 credits=
TOTAL: 14 credits
REQUIRED COURSES
- NURS 473 – 3 credits
- NURS 477 or NURS 459 – 3 credits
- NURS 479 – 3 credits
- NURS 480 – 2 credits
- NURS 411/412*/414* – 3 credits
- HLTH 367 (optional for honors) - 1(H)
TOTAL: 14 credits
PLEASE NOTE: Total Program Credits: 122
*Meets University of Delaware multicultural requirement
Students must take 4 University breadth courses (see academic catalog)
Requirements Categories:
• Creative arts and humanities—3 credits
• History and cultural change—3 credits
• Social and behavioral sciences—3 credits
• Mathematics, natural sciences, and technology—3 credits (for the nursing major–several courses will fit this requirement)
(Students must receive a C- or better in these 4 courses)
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