Traditional BS Program
Hands-on learning experiences prepare students to enter nursing practice with confidence.
The Traditional Baccalaureate in Nursing Program consists of a robust curriculum, encompassing biomedical and social sciences, clinical nursing, and university general education courses. This ensures that our students have the professional education and broad skills necessary to assume a range of nursing positions.
About the Traditional BS Program
Designed to create a workforce of baccalaureate-prepared nurses, the curriculum integrates biomedical and social sciences to prepare students for upper-division study that incorporates nursing science with clinical practice experience. This ensures that students acquire a professional education that prepares them to provide compassionate, safe and quality health care throughout the heath care spectrum.
Upper-division (junior and senior level) courses emphasize health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and the care of those with chronic or acute and complex illnesses. Content focuses on the knowledge, skills and critical thinking required to provide holistic, culturally relevant, evidence-based nursing care.
Clinical rotations for this program includes 700 clinical hours. Many of the clinical opportunities are offered in innovative Dedicated Education Units (DEU), a model for clinical instruction that provides an optimal teaching/learning environment for students, faculty and clinicians. Students are integrated into the clinical setting that accurately simulates nursing practice.
The programs culminates in a three week preceptorship in Buffalo or New York City, where students are immersed in a one-on-one experience with a nurse in a clinical setting.
Graduates are prepared to practice, collaborate and manage within the framework of legislative, economic, environmental and regulatory processes to influence and improve the provision of safe, quality health care within complex health care systems. A diverse curriculum taught by faculty experts ensures that our graduates are equipped to practice within the framework of legislative, economic, environmental and regulatory processes preparing them to influence and improve the provision of health care.
Program Quick Facts
Tuition*
$6,000 per semester
120 Credits
59 prerequisites/electives + 61 upper division
Start Term
Fall
Time to Completion
2 years prerequisites + 2 years upper division (full time)
*Estimated tuition is based on the resident rate and does not include fees.
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Program Requirements
Advisement
Curriculum
Upper Division Curriculum
Junior Year
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| NSG 309 Health Assessment: Concepts and Skills | 4 |
| NSG 370 Nursing as a Profession | 3 |
| NSG 371 Basic Nursing Therapeutics | 4 |
| NSG 373 Basic Nursing Therapeutics Practicum | 2 |
| NBS 372 Health Promotion across the Lifespan | 1 |
| NSG 311 Family Nursing | 2 |
| Total Credits | 16 |
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| NSG 348 Evidence Based Practice and Nursing Research | 3 |
| NSG 374 Nursing Care of Women and Children | 5 |
| NSG 375 Nursing Care of Women and Children Practicum | 4 |
| NBS 378 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention within Populations | 2 |
| Total Credits | 14 |
Senior Year
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| NSG 393 Informatics and the Health Care Environment | 3 |
| NSG 410 Public Health Nursing | 2 |
| NSG 470 Health Maintenance and Restoration | 4 |
| NSG 474 Nursing Therapeutics in Health Maintenance and Restoration | 4 |
| NSG 472 Promoting Quality Health Outcomes and Culture of Safety | 2 |
| UBC 399 UB Capstone | 1 |
| Total Credits | 16 |
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| NSG 475 Transitioning to Professional Nursing Practice as a Leader/Manager | 2 |
| NSG 478 Concepts of Complex Acute Care | 4 |
| NSG 479 Clinical Seminar: Complex Acute Care | 1 |
| NSG 481 Nursing Management of Patients with Complex Acute Health Care Problems | 4 |
| NSG 447 Advanced Clinical Nursing | 3 |
| Total Credits | 14 |
Additional Information
Daniel Ackers Admission Program
Daniel Acker Scholar Nursing students are guaranteed admission to the upper division Traditional BS in Nursing program provided they are enrolled and satisfy the requirements of the Acker scholars program. To maintain their seat in the program students must be in good standing with the Cora P. Maloney Center, satisfy the School of Nursing minimum admission requirements including prerequisite courses, overall and prerequisite GPA requirements, and submit the Nursing supplemental application all by January 15, typically in their sophomore year.
