Nursing, BSN

Requirements

Students must meet the following requirements to enroll in the first semester of nursing coursework.

• The following prerequisites must be completed with a grade of "C" or higher before entering the first nursing courses.

• Enrollment in all nursing courses limited to the nursing major requires at least a 2.5 TCU cumulative GPA. Students who are repeatedly unable to achieve or maintain a 2.5 GPA prior to enrollment in nursing courses will be discontinued from the major.

• Prerequisite sciences must be completed within five (5) years of application to the program. Sciences include A&P 1 and 2, and Microbiology.

• Current American Heart Association cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for health care providers card. (Online CPR courses do not meet this requirement.)

• Documentation of required immunizations and other documents (contact TCU Nursing for list).

• Completion of the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) entrance exam.

• Documentation of health insurance.

• Drug screen and criminal background check as required by health care agencies and BON.

Nursing Curriculum Plan

TCU Nursing, has an innovative curriculum designed to prepare graduates to work in a wide variety of agencies, clinics, home care agencies, and other community facilities in addition to hospitals and extended-care facilities. Emphasis in classrooms and patient care settings is on the development of critical thinking, clinical reasoning and decision-making. Students are expected to assume considerable responsibility for their own learning. They are expected to become increasingly independent in the exercise of clinical judgment and in application of nursing process to a variety of nursing problems and situations.

Nursing courses constitute approximately one-half of the four-year program. The sequence of nursing courses provides learning experiences in all major practice areas and in a variety of institutions and agencies in and around the Fort Worth-Dallas Metroplex.

Courses within the program and the sequence are designed to promote student success. Once enrolled in TCU Nursing clinical coursework, classes must be taken and retaken at TCU. As such, transfer credit will only be allowed for course and course after syllabus review indicates the course is equivalent to the TCU course.

Typical Schedule

Schedules for TCU Core Curriculum courses may vary for individual students.

First-year

Semester 1

Semester 2

Sophomore Year

Semester 1

Semester 2

Junior Year

Summer work in non-nursing courses is recommended prior to junior year

Semester 1

Semester 2

Senior Year

Semester 1

Semester 2