Education

Curriculum

You will start with your prerequisites, then begin your nursing courses in the second semester of your sophomore year. Upon completion of the curriculum, you will finish with 122 credits. Well worth the investment, caring for New Mexico and beyond.

The curriculum below applies to students enrolled in Fall 2024 and later. If you enrolled in Fall 2023, your curriculum can be found on page 97 of the undergraduate handbook.

Your Objectives

In our program you will meet the following objectives:

• Engage in professional nursing practice that is patient-centered and culturally appropriate for individuals, families and communities.
• Integrate principles of quality improvement and safety into nursing practice within health care organizations and systems.
• Deliver nursing care that is evidence-based.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors through the application of policies that apply to health care delivery.
• Engage in effective interprofessional collaboration in the delivery of health care for quality patient outcomes.
• Use technologies for the management of information and delivery of patient care.

Continuing Eligibility Criteria for Progression

Direct-Entry students are provisionally admitted to the pre-licensure BSN program. In order to maintain Direct-Entry status in the program, students must meet the following requirements during their first three terms to be eligible to begin the nursing major coursework at the start of the fourth term:

• be enrolled as full-time students each term,
• participate in nursing seminars (non-credit) each term as scheduled by the College of Nursing,
• complete all pre-requisite courses for entry into fourth semester nursing major coursework,
• maintain a grade point average of 3.2 during all pre-nursing terms, with no prerequisite course grade lower than a C,
• meet all essential qualifications, technology requirements, and professional documentation requirements as set forth in the College of Nursing Undergraduate Nursing Program Pre-RN-Licensure BSN and RN to BSN Student Handbook.

Students not meeting the continuing eligibility criteria may still have the option to apply for competitive admission into the traditional BSN program upon completion of all prerequisite courses as set forth in the UNM University Catalog.

You Will Be Prepared

Our program prepares you to excel on the National Council Licensure Examination – Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN) licensing exam.