BS Nursing

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is a four-year course that is competency-based, community-oriented, and value-based. The program aims to prepare beginning professional nurses, who shall:

  1. Apply critical thinking in the practice of nursing using the knowledge from the physical, social, natural and health sciences, and the humanities.
  2. Provide safe, quality, holistic, and compassionate nursing care to individuals, families, population groups, and communities utilizing the nursing process.
  3. Use the most efficient technology and best evidence in managing clients.
  4. Provide nursing care using skills on health promotion and disease prevention, toward a higher level of wellness of clients and the society in the context of but not limited to primary health care approach.
  5. Conduct self professionally at all times.
  6. Demonstrate integrity, respect for human dignity, gender and culture sensitivity, and social justice in the practice of nursing.
  7. Document nursing practice decisions, outcomes of client care and program/service implementation using appropriate forms and technology.
  8. Utilize effective interprofessional collaboration, teamwork, and community partnerships toward improved health outcomes, client empowerment, and community competence.
  9. Practice leadership and management skills in the delivery of safe, quality client care, and continuous quality improvement of nursing care and health service.
  10. Conduct relevant research that is compliant to technical and ethical guidelines with supervision.
  11. Engage in lifelong learning with a passion to keep current with national and global developments in general, and nursing and health developments in particular.
  12. Demonstrate responsible citizenship, love of country, and pride of being a Filipino.
  13. Communicate effectively with clients, health team, and other stakeholders in achieving health, clinical units and program goals

The BSN degree requires the completion of 161 units, 24 units of General Education courses, 13 units of tool courses, 3 units of a legislated course, and 121 units of professional courses, with additional 8 units for Physical Education and 6 units for NSTP.

General Education Courses

The GE program is anchored on the belief in holistic preparations of students by broadening knowledge base, developing nationalism and social awareness, refining appreciation of the arts and, most of all, instilling the right values towards self and others. This has been revitalized to address specific student needs.

Require GE Courses:

  • Comm 10 Critical Perspectives in Communication (3 units)
  • Wika 1 Wika, Kultura at Lipunan (3 units)
  • Kas 1 Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas (3 units)
  • Ethics 1 Ethics and Moral Reasoning in Everyday Life (3 units)
  • Math 10 Mathematics, Culture and Society (3 units)
  • STS 1 Science, Technology and Society (3 units)

Elective GE Courses: 

  • Arts 1 Critical Perspectives in the Arts (3 units)
  • SAS 1 Self and Society (3 units)
  • PhilArts 1 Philippine Arts and Culture (3 units)
  • Science 10 Probing and Physical World (3 units)
  • Science 11 Living Systems (3 units)

Tool and Foundation Courses

These are foundation courses necessary to supplement the professional courses. All these courses are required. 

  • Chem 30 Organic Chemistry (3 units)
  • Chem 40 Elementary Biochemistry (3 units)
  • OrComm 111 Technical Writing (3 units)
  • Math 101 Elementary Statistics (3 units)

Legislated Courses

These are courses required by national statutes. 

  • NSTP National Service Training Program (3 units)
  • PI 100 Life and Works of Rizal (3 units)

These are the major nursing courses which are required to prepare students as entry-level professional nurses.

Concepts in behavioral sciences of anthropology, psychology, and sociology applied to the description and analysis of individual and group behaviors in health and illness

Credit: 5 units lecture

The normal physical, physiologic, and sociopsychological development of the individual from conception to senescence.

Pre-requisite: N1
Credit: 5 units lecture

Physiological concepts with basic anatomic facts.

Credit: 5 units (4 units lecture and 1 unit laboratory)

Facts, concepts, theories, and principles about disease formation and the scientific rationale behind signs and symptoms.

Pre-requisite: N3|
Credit: 3 units lecture

Facts, concepts, theories, and principles about disease formation and the scientific rationale behind signs and symptoms.

Pre-requisite: N3
Credit: 3 units lecture

The course focuses on the principles of parasitology and the study of common parasites found in man to help students acquire basic knowledge, attitudes, and skills in the performance of nursing responsibilities relevant to the prevention and control of parasitic infection or infestation.

Pre-requisite: N4 and Chemistry 30
Credit: 2 units lecture

Introduction of the general properties of drugs currently in use, their actions, effects, toxic manifestations, drug to drug interactions, and nursing considerations in humans with emphasis on drug forms and preparations, dosage, and methods of administration. Includes introduction to the ethical and legal responsibilities of nurses in the preparation and administration of drugs and medication safety.

Pre-requisite: N4, Chemistry 40, Micro 20, Para 10N
Credit: 3 units lecture

Basic assessment of clients using varied techniques and sources across the lifespan with focus on the young child, adolescent, adult and older persons.

Pre-requisite: N3
Co-requisite: N10 and Chemistry 40
Credit: 2 units (1 unit lecture and 1 unit laboratory)

Introduction of concepts and principles of human nutrition and diet therapy in nursing practice.

Pre-requisite: N3
Co-requisite: N10 and Chemistry 40
Credit: 2 units (1 unit lecture and 1 unit laboratory)

Concepts basic to the practice of nursing with emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, and disease prevention.

Co-requisites: N8 and N9
Credit: 6 units (3 units lecture, 2 units laboratory, 1 unit clinicals)

Selected concepts, principles, and basic  procedures applied to nursing with emphasis on the role of the nurse in diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.

Pre-requisite: N10
Co-requisites: Micro 20, Para 10, N4, and N10
Credit: 6 units (3 units lecture, 2 units laboratory, 1 unit clinicals)

This course focuses on the care of families across variant family forms using the concepts and principles from community and public health nursing, environmental health, and related subspecialty of community health nursing namely school health nursing, occupational health nursing, and community health nursing

Pre-requisite: N11, Micro 20, Para 10N
Co-requisite: N13
Credit: 5 units (3 units lecture, 0.5 units laboratory, 1.5 units fieldwork)

Application of skills in health promotion in providing safe, quality, and holistic care on healthy and well clients during different periods of pregnancy, including children at various developmental stages up to adolescence in the hospital and community settings.

Pre-requisites: N10, Micro 20, Para 10N
Credit: 5 units (2 units lecture, 1 unit laboratory, 2 units clinicals)

Application of concepts, principles, and strategies on health promotion based on the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion with emphasis on the promotion of healthier lifestyles and prevention of non-communicable diseases.

Pre-requisites: Junior standing
Co-requisites: N105 and N119
Credit: 3 units

Application of concepts, theories, processes, and tools used in nursing and health care which includes utilization of health information systems to maximize delivery of quality, evidence-based, collaborative, and patient centered-care.

Pre-requisites: Junior standing
Credit: 3 units lecture

Theories, concepts, and principles in ethics and bioethics; their application to examining ethico-moral, legal, social, and biotechnology issues and dilemmas that may arise in the practice of nursing.

Pre-requisite: N12 and N13
Credit: 3 units lecture

Nursing care of individuals of all ages and their family as they adapt to changes brought about by disturbances in oxygenation, fluid and electrolyte balance, reproduction and sexuality, in varied settings. Focus is on high risk/sick individuals from all age groups, including neonates and pregnant women.

Pre-requisites: Chemistry 40, N5, N11, N12
Credit: 6 units (3 units lecture and 3 units clinicals)

Nursing care of individuals (across the lifespan including high-risk pregnant women and high-risk neonates), families, and population groups with pathophysiological and psychosocial disturbances in the hospital and the community. The clients include those with infection, chronic, and degenerative conditions with problems related to perception and coordination, nutrition and metabolism, cellular aberrations, rehabilitation, and ageing.

Pre-requisite: N105
Credit: 6 units (3 units lecture and 3 units clinicals)

The course provides opportunities to demonstrate beginning nurse’s role in the care of individuals with problems in psychosocial adaptation and adjustment, and psychiatric patients admitted in acute care settings, as well as their families in the community setting.

Credit: 4 units (1.5 units lecture, 0.5 unit laboratory, 2 units clinicals)

This course provides the opportunity for students to develop and apply quick critical thinking and decision-making skills in the nursing care of clients with life threatening conditions. This would also include demonstration of students’ preparedness during emergency and disaster situations as opportunity arises.

Credit: 5 units (2 units lecture, 1 unit laboratory, 2 units clinicals)

Application of the concepts, principles, and strategies in disaster risk and reduction, and management in providing nursing care in all phases of disaster situations to help save lives and build resilience in the community.

Pre-requisite: N119
Credit: 3 units (1.5 units lecture, 0.5 units laboratory, 1 unit fieldwork)

Nursing care of older persons as individuals, including their families, and the aging population groups, with emphasis on adaptation to aging, chronic illness, and end-of-life care. The application of theories, concepts, principles, and care strategies on aging allow for a deeper understanding of their complex needs that is unique only to them.

Pre-requisite: N105
Credit: 3 units (2 units lecture and 1 unit practicum)

This course focuses on the care of population groups and communities using concepts and principles from public health nursing and other related fields such as health, physical, and social science disciplines to address current health problem, trends, and even issues affecting public health nursing practice.

Pre-requisite: N13
Credit: 4 units (2 units lecture and 2 units practicum/fieldwork)

The course introduces concepts, theories, and principles of leadership and management as applied to nursing situations in the hospital and community settings.

Credit: 3 units lecture

Focused on the principles and fundamentals of research methods which introduce the undergraduate student to the kinds of nursing research, the basic steps in conducting research, and the related issues and concerns regarding nursing research.

Credit: 3 units (2 units lecture and 1 unit laboratory)

Implementation of a research that is compliant to technical and ethical guidelines with supervision.

Pre-requisite: N199
Credit: 3 units

This course provides opportunity for students to demonstrate beginning competencies of a first-level nurse in the hospital setting with the integration and application of concepts, theories, and principles of nursing practice. This includes the development of their personal and professional values, leadership and management skills, and research capabilities. Their clinical experiences including primary nursing, staff nursing, and head nursing.

Pre-requisite: All courses including 4 PE and 2 NSTP
Credit: 7.5 units (1 unit lecture and 6.5 units clinicals)

This course is an intensive supervised experienced in the community setting geared towards preparing the students to be a competent community health nurse at the staff level position. The course emphasizes the development of leadership capabilities, accountability to client/patient care, commitment to the caring profession, and beginning managerial skills with a scientifically inquisitive-research-oriented mind.

Pre-requisite: All courses including 4 PE and 2 NSTP
Credit: 7.5 units of community service


Elective Courses

This course focuses on the nursing strategies for the promotion and maintenance of mental health and the management of psychosocial concerns of population groups or community.

Pre-requisite: Junior standing
Credit: 3 units (2 units lecture and 1 unit practicum)

Theoretical discussion on the nursing care of clients with life-threatening conditions and multi-organ system involvement requiring intensive care.

Pre-requisite: N107
Credit: 3 units lecture

Nursing interventions/strategies for the prevention and/or management of behavioral problems of children arising from parent-child relationships.

Pre-requisites: N2 and N12
Credit: 3 units lecture

The principles underlying the planning of clinical instruction and their application. It includes planning a course, selection of learning experiences, integration of social aspects, use of audiovisual materials and techniques, planning of class schedules, clinical rotation of students, appraisal of student learning and examples of evaluation devices.

Pre-requisite: Senior standing
Credit: 3 units lecture

The nursing school curriculum and principles and methods of curriculum-making. Emphasis is given to principles involved in formulation objectives, selecting and organizing materials, determining methods of teaching and the evaluation of instruction.

Pre-requisite: Senior standing
Credit: 3 units lecture

In addition to passing all 161 units of required coursework and the 8 units of PE and 6 units  of National Service Training Program, completion of the following requirements are necessary for graduation:

  1. Assisting in 10 major operations/surgeries
  2. Observing, assisting and handling 5 deliveries each respectively; and,
  3. Completion of 5 cord dressings along with the initial care of newborns.