Program Overview

Bachelor of Science in Nursing: Traditional Track

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing: Traditional Track is a program designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for nursing practice.

Learning Outcomes

The program has the following learning outcomes:

1. Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Incorporate knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, from nursing, humanities, and science perspectives as a foundation for nursing practice.
2. Person-centered care: Implement person-centered care to improve the health of individuals and families.
3. Population Health: Collaborate with community partners to achieve population health goals by promoting well-being, public health, and disease management.
4. Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Integrate scholarship in nursing practice to deliver person-centered care.
5. Quality and Safety: Utilize quality improvement methods to promote safety and minimize risks for patients & the healthcare team.
6. Interprofessional Partnerships: Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with interprofessional healthcare teams to enhance patient care and support positive health outcomes.
7. Systems-Based Practice: Incorporate systems-based practices in the delivery of safe, equitable, and cost-effective care.
8. Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Use information and communication technologies to support patient safety and improve the quality of care in healthcare systems.
9. Professionalism: Establish a professional identity that embraces the ANA Codes of Ethics and regulatory practice standards.
10. Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Cultivate personal, professional, and leadership development activities that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being.

Program Overview

The program is part of the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at San Antonio, which is an academic health center that includes schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health professions, graduate biomedical sciences, and public health. The clinical enterprise, UT Health San Antonio, conducts 2.5 million patient visits yearly.