Credits Required: 
Total credits: 120 units
Pre-nursing transfer credits: 28 units

Credits in residence at CSUMB: 50 units
Community College credits in the major (Nursing units): up to 40 units

Lower Division Major Requirements

Below are the Nursing courses taken at your Community College concurrently with CSUMB upper-division major requirement courses during years one and two of the CSUMB Nursing program.

Year One:

  • Nursing Theory I
  • Nursing Theory II
  • Clinical Practicum I
  • Clinical Practicum II

Year Two:

  • Nursing Theory III
  • Nursing Theory IV
  • Clinical Practicum III
  • Clinical Practicum IV
 

Major Learning Outcomes

MLO 1: Professional Ethics

Students will articulate and demonstrate the values and ethics that are the foundation for nursing practice. Students will recognize and discuss areas of conflict between personal and professional values. The student will identify conflicting values in the delivery of health care being able to make and assist others in making ethical care decisions. Students analyze their own and other ethical frameworks surrounding issues such as the promotion of social justice in profit and non-profit health care delivery systems. Students will be able to identify critical ethical issues in the conduct of research.

Required Courses

  • NURS 306: Chronic Care Mgmt (4 units)
  • NURS 311: Child Bearing/Fam Portfolio 1 (1 unit)
  • NURS 312: Psychiatric Portfolio 2 (1 unit)
  • NURS 313: Geriatric Portfolio 3 (1 unit)
  • NURS 314: Med-Surg Portfolio 4 (1 unit)
  • NURS 315: Preceptor Portfolio 5 (1 unit)

MLO 2: Professional Communication and Collaboration

Students will demonstrate the ability to initiate and maintain a flow of information among professional groups through the use of critical listening, oral and written communication skills. They will demonstrate the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams, collaborate with others in decision making, learning, completing tasks and applying knowledge that assures health promotion, disease and injury prevention, and patient safety. They will identify and discuss the dynamics of human negotiation among inter-professional groups and practice forging mutual agreements that contribute to developing and achieving a culture of care that assures safe quality outcomes for diverse populations.

Required Courses

  • NURS 312: Psychiatric Portfolio 2 (1 unit)
  • NURS 315: Preceptor Portfolio 5 (1 unit)
  • NURS 321: Info Mgmt in Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 395: Special Topics (1 to 6 units)

MLO 3: Population Health and Cultural Competency

Students understand and describe the essential differences between self and others, demonstrate mutual respect and sensitivity to cultural differences. Connecting and integrating liberal education with nursing theory  students will be able to assess the impact of the various elements of lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors on the health status of culturally diverse individuals and communities that support or hinder health promotion, disease and injury prevention and assist individuals, families, and groups in navigating the health care system. Applying knowledge of various research methods, application of statistics and research literature, students will be able to assess the efficacy of selected interventions. Students will possess effective communication skills to disseminate appropriate and effective nursing care across cultural groups, families, and the individual lifespan.

Required Courses

  • NURS 300: Intro to Prof Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 313: Geriatric Portfolio 3 (1 unit)
  • NURS 315: Preceptor Portfolio 5 (1 unit)

MLO 4: Health Care Systems Management

Students will be able to identify, research, and analyze systems, communities, profit and non-profit organizations for leadership, financial and health care policy concepts. Students will explore a variety of leadership theories and apply those concepts to promote safe quality care in organizational and community settings. Students will synthesize and integrate theory and methodology of collaboration in multiple health care settings including the scope and role of regulatory agencies that define the borders of nursing practice. Students will demonstrate collaborative skills in interdisciplinary settings to promote high quality care in a safe care delivery environment.

Required Courses

  • NURS 422: Community Health Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 422S: Community Health Nursing Lab (4 units)

MLO 5: Information Technology in Nursing

Students will demonstrate understanding and competence with clinical information systems using computer and internet technologies to support health care delivery. Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively utilize information technology to collect and organize data, detect, observe, describe and communicate patterns that emerge from the analysis of nursing questions in support of an evidence base of practice. Students will demonstrate competence in the analysis and display of data.

Required Courses

  • NURS 321: Info Mgmt in Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 395: Special Topics (1 to 6 units)
  • NURS 422: Community Health Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 422S: Community Health Nursing Lab (4 units)

MLO 6: Knowledge of Health Care Policy

Students will integrate knowledge of the theories, principles and issues common to the fields of nursing and health care including community health, social welfare and global service achieving a broad understanding of the human experience. Students demonstrate the ability to critically analyze community issues and begin to master the skills necessary to identify and define broad health care issues across the life span that influence financial, regulatory and policy development. Students will demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate complex health care delivery and policy issues through information systems and communication devices.

Required Courses

  • NURS 311: Child Bearing/Fam Portfolio 1 (1 unit)
  • NURS 312: Psychiatric Portfolio 2 (1 unit)
  • NURS 313: Geriatric Portfolio 3 (1 unit)
  • NURS 314: Med-Surg Portfolio 4 (1 unit)
  • NURS 422: Community Health Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 422S: Community Health Nursing Lab (4 units)

MLO 7: Professional Development

Students will demonstrate an understanding of life-long learning and how the constellation of bio-psycho-social knowledge and skills differentiates the role of the professional nurse. Students will also demonstrate knowledge through application of research methods that support evidence based practice models in community and organizational settings. Students will utilize writing and presentation skills providing a systematic process for the evaluation and application of scientific evidence and the sharing of evidence based practices. Students will use the scientific method to develop questions and test hypotheses that support safe and effective care delivery.

Required Courses

  • NURS 311: Child Bearing/Fam Portfolio 1 (1 unit)
  • NURS 312: Psychiatric Portfolio 2 (1 unit)
  • NURS 313: Geriatric Portfolio 3 (1 unit)
  • NURS 314: Med-Surg Portfolio 4 (1 unit)
  • NURS 321: Info Mgmt in Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 330: Research Methods (4 units)
  • NURS 395: Special Topics (1 to 6 units)
  • NURS 422S: Community Health Nursing Lab (4 units)

MLO 8: Service in Nursing

Students will demonstrate the ability to contribute to human flourishing in culturally, linguistically and economically diverse communities across the life span and serve as important human links to direct healthcare. Students will demonstrate knowledge of and skill in direct care and as it is acquired in the Community Colleges will integrate new knowledge of genomics, critical thinking and an application of ethical values with an expression of compassion offered at CSUMB. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the professional role of the bachelors degree prepared generalist nurse that is integrated with the ability to apply practice and clinical experiences gained through the collaboration with the Community Colleges.

Required Courses

  • NURS 300: Intro to Prof Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 422: Community Health Nursing (3 units)
  • NURS 422S: Community Health Nursing Lab (4 units)

Concentrations