Nursing (B.S.N.)

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Nursing program demonstrate: 

  1. Critical thinking through the integration of theoretical and empirical knowledge derived from general education courses.
  2. Application of knowledge and skills for leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety in all aspects of health care delivery.
  3. Application of research for evidence-based nursing practice.
  4. Use of knowledge and skills of information management and patient care technology for delivery of quality patient care.
  5. Adherence to healthcare policies, including financial, regulatory, and legal parameters in all aspects of nursing practice.
  6. Effective communication and collaboration with patients, families, communities, and other health care professionals for the delivery of high quality and safe patient care, including health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and delivery of effective comprehensive health care services, at the individual and population level.
  7. Knowledge of local, national, and global health care issues.
  8. Ethical behavior for adherence to the professional values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.
  9. Skill in providing comprehensive holistic, culturally humble care for persons, families, and communities across the lifespan.
  10. How faith connects to the field of nursing.

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

NURS 203Historical and Conceptual Basis for Nursing

3

NURS 210Health Assessment

3

NURS 211Foundations of Nursing Practice

3

NURS 303Pathophysiology

3

NURS 304Pharmacology

3

NURS 305Nursing Research I

2

NURS 310Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family

4

NURS 311Nursing Care of Adults and Older Adults I

4

NURS 312Nursing Care of Adults and Older Adults II

4

NURS 313Nursing Care of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

4

NURS 405Nursing Research II

2

NURS 410Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

4

NURS 411Nursing Care of the Critically Ill

4

NURS 413Leadership in Nursing

3

NURS 414Population and Global Health

4

NURS 492Senior Nursing Capstone

6

BIOL 185Human Anatomy and Physiology I

4

BIOL 186Human Anatomy and Physiology II

4

BIOL 189Genetics for Health Professions

3

BIOL 265Microbiology

4

CHEM 103Chemical Science

4

NUTR 222Principles of Nutrition

3

PSYC 209Life Span Development

3

STAT 269Introductory Statistics

3

NURS 211 and NURS 492: Writing in the major requirement.

Three credits from the following:

HDFS 101Foundations of Marriage & Family

3

PSYC 101Introduction to Psychology

3

SOAN 101Principles of Sociology

3

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement met/major
QuEST requirements Credits
First Year Seminar 3
Oral Communications 3
Created and Called for Community (W) 3
Mathematical Sciences (STAT 269) met/major
Laboratory Science (CHEM 103) met/major
Science, Technology & the World waived
Social Science (HDFS 101, PSYC 101 or SOAN 101) met/major
European or United States History 3
Literature 3
Philosophy and Religion 3
Arts 3
First Semester of Language 3
Second Semester of Language 3
One of the following*:
   Third Semester of Language
   Cross Cultural
   Non-Western Studies
2-3
Bible 3
Christian Beliefs 3
Wellness course 1
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism 3
QuEST requirements 39-40
Major requirements 87
Total credits 126-127

*The choice of either a third semester of a language, a cross cultural, or a non-western studies course applies only to the Nursing major.