Required Reading

Required Reading

The Registrar’s Rx is published once a semester and is required reading for all students.

Graduating?

Graduating?

Planning to graduate in the upcoming term?

ALL students expecting to receive their degree (including BSN-DNP students receiving their MSN) must apply to graduate using the Student Information System (SIS). The School of Nursing’s deadline to apply to graduate for the spring semester is Tuesday, February 1. The Nursing School's Registrar’s Office will individually check each graduating student’s record to confirm that degree requirements have been met.

If you fail to apply to graduate on time, please email the School of Nursing Registrar.

Even if the Expected Graduation Date is listed in SIS for a future term, students are not prevented from submitting an application.  An audit will ultimately determine if a student is eligible to be put forward for degree conferral.

When applying for graduation in SIS, be sure to validate that the Primary Name and Diploma Address listed are correct. This is the name that will be listed on the diploma and the address to which it will be shipped. Name changes must be made with the Office of the University Registrar (UREG) using an Applicant Name Change Form.

Students that have completed all coursework prior to their graduation term need to be enrolled in Affiliated Status to receive their degree.  Additional information can be found on the School of Nursing Affiliated Status Request Form itself.

Note: Students cannot graduate with a missing grade or a grade of Incomplete, even if the course is not required for the degree to be awarded.

Enrollment Instructions

Enrollment Instructions

Advising Summer and Fall 2024

  • The schedule of classes will be available on March 15.
  • Advising begins March 25 - April 4.

Summer 2024 Enrollment

  • Shopping Cart opens on March 22.
  • Graduate student enrollment begins March 25.
  • Undergraduate student enrollment begins March 25-26.
    • Individual enrollment dates and times may vary by student. These will be listed in SIS.
  • Open enrollment begins March 28.

Fall 2024 Enrollment

  • Shopping Cart opens on March 22.
  • Graduate student enrollment begins April 2.
  • Undergraduate student enrollment begins April 8-11.
    • Individual enrollment dates and times may vary by student. These will be listed in SIS.
  • New graduate student enrollment opens on July 1.
  • Open enrollment for undergraduates begins August 5.

Additional information about using SIS for enrollment-related functions is available to students on the SIS Help pages.

Holds

Holds

Advising Holds

All Nursing students will see that they have an “Advising Hold” listed in the SIS. Only the advisor can remove the hold, which means all students need to meet with their advisor prior to enrolling. Graduate students are all required to have an updated and complete SIS Planner as well before the hold can be removed. Students' advisors are listed in SIS.

Please note, the advising holds do not impact Summer registration. Current advising holds will impact Fall registration.

Other Holds

The SIS Dashboard will display all current Holds (also listed under the "My Information" menu). If there are other holds listed in SIS, click on “details” to see why the Hold has been placed and what must be done to remove the hold. Students cannot register for classes until all holds have been removed. Please do not contact the School of Nursing Registrar’s office concerning any hold other than those coming from the School of Nursing, as only the department responsible for placing a hold can remove it. Typically, for a Student Health hold please call (434) 924-1525 and for a Student Accounts hold please call (434) 982-6000. Do not contact the School of Nursing Dean for Dean of Nursing holds.

Full-time vs. Part-time - Graduate Students

Full-time vs. Part-time - Graduate Students

Part-Time/Full-Time Status – Full time status is 12 credit hours (fall & spring). SIS is quite restrictive about course enrollment based on status, so it is important for us to keep your status correct. Therefore, if you are currently a full-time student and wish to change to part-time, or vice-versa, you must complete an Enrollment Status Change Request Form and have it signed by your advisor and your Program Coordinator. Failure to do so could make it much more difficult to register for the appropriate classes and your bill could be incorrect.

The University's full-time minimum is 12 credits and part-time minimum for some financial aid types is 6 credits. Students who must meet the corresponding full-time or part-time status must enroll in elective(s) when the required coursework for the semester is below the minimum thresholds. 

Students can view their full-time or part-time status in SIS by clicking on “Enrollment Dates”, which falls under the “Enrollment” heading on the side bar. Select the applicable term and look under “Term Enrollment Limits”. If the maximum credit limit is less than 12.0, students are part-time for the term; more than 12.0 equates to full-time. 

Note: PhD students are governed by GSAS guidelines, which may be different from School of Nursing guidelines.

Nursing Electives

NUIP 3004 Practicing Wisdom and Resilience – 2 credits

This course explores the science of the brain/body connection offering experiential opportunities through direct meditative practices. Class time includes didactic learning, interactive dialogue, and engagement in mindfulness practices.  We will develop self-assessment, self-care strategies and resilience practices, within the larger context of wisdom.

NUIP 3230 Spanish for Health Care Providers – 2 credits

This introductory seminar facilitates the student's mastery of their Spanish language ability as applied to health care settings and encounters. It provides an introduction to the vocabulary and cultural relevancy of terms that are relevant to students planning to work in the healthcare professions to better serve Spanish-speaking patients and their families.

Prereqs: SPAN 1010 & 1020 or equivalent.

NUIP 4004 Strategies for Prehospital Emergency Care I – credits are awarded after completion of part two of the course sequence

The content of the course will focus on prehospital emergency care. Students will learn to assess the sick or injured individual as well as develop & implement a plan of care to stabilize & transport the individual to an emergency facility. Upon successful completion of NUIP 4004, 4006, & state req., the student will be eligible to test for cert. as an EMT by the Commonwealth of VA, Dept of Health, Office of EMS. Part I of a two-part-course.
Prerequisite: Current CPR Certification

NUIP 4430 Statistics for Healthcare – 3 credits

Online course

This course is an introduction to data analysis for nursing and healthcare-related research. Course emphasis is on practical application and understanding how the research question drives the choice of particular statistical procedures. Descriptive and univariate inferential statistics will be covered. Students will learn how to create and manage simple databases in SPSS, interpret SPSS outputs, and draw statistical conclusions.

NURS 3003 Nursing Leadership in Action – 3 credits

Online course

This course provides nursing students opportunities to develop leadership and management skills through participation in a variety of programs and activities. Students learn how to work in cooperative relationships with peers, faculty, students in other disciplines, community service organizations, and the public in a service learning environment. Membership in National Student Nurses Association and Student Nurses Association of Virginia is a requirement. Nursing students only.  

GNUR 5010 Introduction to Telehealth – 3 credits

Online course
This course explores telehealth technologies and application to nursing practice. Focus is placed on translating telehealth technologies into practice through learning and utilizing real time video conferencing, home monitoring technologies, and store and forward technologies. Credentialing, reimbursement, regulatory, and policy issues related to implementation are emphasized. 

Lab and Seminar required.

GNUR 5110 History, Race, and Science in American Health Care – 3 credits

This course incorporates topics of local and national issues regarding America's historical problem with race, science, white privilege, and health care. The course surveys medical and scientific constructions of ideas about race, and it pulls threads from history (slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights eras) into the present by engaging in conversations with books and articles written by a diverse group of authors.

*This course counts as a social science/history area requirement for BSN students.

GNUR 5240 Ethics and Clinical Practice – 3 credits

Designed to enhance the student's ability to describe & analyze ethical concepts foundational to nursing practice; use a variety of ethical decision-making frameworks to analyze ethical dilemmas in practice; & play a leadership role in promoting ethical health care delivery. Emphasizes the unique ethical perspectives of nursing in the complex healthcare arena. Students will be challenged to examine individual & professional values.

*This course counts as a social science/history or the humanities/fine arts area requirement for BSN students.

GNUR 5390 Introduction to US Healthcare – 3 credits

This course is designed to provide an overview of (1) how health care is financed, organized, and delivered in the U.S., as well as (2) the major policy challenges created by the system's organization, or lack thereof.  In drawing from a variety of perspectives-including political science, economics and history-the course surveys the key stakeholders: those who pay for, provide and receive care.

*This course counts as a social science/history area requirement for BSN students.

 

Planners - Graduate Students

Planners - Graduate Students

SIS Planners must be populated for all terms in the program and be up to date before Advisors will lift the Advising Hold. 

Planners are a Board of Nursing requirement and are crucial elements to the course scheduling process from term-to-term.

Note: Students need to update their Planner whenever a revision to the standard Plan of Study (POS) is made.  

BSN Required Courses

Use SIS to register for the courses listed below. General education or elective courses should complete your full-time enrollment.

Attention: An asterisk (*) next to a course means that this is a clinical or lab that is picked for you by the School of Nursing. Remember: You cannot enroll in your clinicals or labs. Diana Torres, BSN Program Manager, will do this for you. A list of clinical assignments will be sent to your UVA email as soon as they are available.

BSN Required Fall Courses

Second Year 

  • NUCO 2130: Therapeutic Principles* (4 credits)
  • NUCO 2330: Health Assessment* (3 credits)
  • NUCO 2210: Foundations of Nursing CARE (3 credits)
  • NUIP 2420: Pathophysiology I (3 credits)

Third Years 

  • NUCO 3110: Adult Gero* (4 credits)
  • NUCO 3310: Pediatrics* OR NUCO 3610: Maternal/Child* (4 credits)
  • NUIP 3430: Pharmacology II (3 credits)
  • An elective to be full-time

Fourth Years 

  • NUCO 4110: Complex Health Conditions* (4 credits)
  • NUCO 4210: Public Health* OR NUCO 4310: Psych Mental Health* (4 credits)
  • NUIP 4311: REAL III (2 credits)
  • An elective to be full-time

To be certain that courses enrolled in do satisfy the expected requirement, refer to the Academic Requirements report in SIS after placing the courses in the Planner or Shopping Cart.

ABSN Required Courses

Use SIS to register for the courses listed below. General education or elective courses should complete your full-time enrollment.

Attention: An asterisk (*) next to a course means that this is a clinical or lab that is picked for you by the School of Nursing. Remember: You cannot enroll in your clinicals or labs. Diana Torres, BSN Program Manager, will do this for you. A list of clinical assignments will be sent to your UVA email as soon as they are available.

Summer Courses

ABSN Year 2

  • NUIP 3311: REAL II (3 credits)
  • NUCO 3310: Pediatrics* (4 credits)
  • NUCO 3610: Maternal/Child* (4 credits)

ABSN Year 1

  • NUIP 4200: Pathophysiology (4 credits)
  • NUCO 2330: Health Assessment (3 credits)

Fall Courses

ABSN Year 2

  • NUCO 4110: Complex Health Conditions* (4 credits)
  • NUCO 4210: Public Health * (4 credits)
  • NUIP 4311: REAL III (2 credits)
  • Nursing electives (3 credits)

ABSN Year 1

  • NUCO 2130: Therapeutic Principles* (4 credits)
  • NUCO 2440: Case Based Learning with clinical* (2 credits)
  • NUCO 2210: Foundations of Nursing CARE (3 credits)
  • NUIP 2430: Pharmacology I (3 credits)
RN-to-BSN Required Courses

RN-to-BSN Required Courses

Summer 2024:

  • NUCO 4435: Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing Practice (sign-up for simulation date)
  • NUCO 4056: Introduction to Health Policy

Fall 2024:

1st years: in-person dates 8/27, 9/24, 10/29, and 11/19

2nd years: in-person dates 9/3, 10/1, 11/12, and 12/3

  • NUIP 4610: Leadership and Management in Health Care Systems
  • 3 credit University elective (please see the Nursing Electives above for options)
CNL Required Courses

CNL Required Courses

For the Summer Semester

Year 1 CNL Students enroll in:

  • NUIP 4200: Pathophysiology*
  • GCNL 5100: Health Assessment & Clinical Interventions
  • GNUR 6060: Culture & Health: Implications for Clinical Practice

Year 2 CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5120: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Nursing Care of Children & Families
  • GCNL 5150: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Community Health Nursing
  • GCNL 5140: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Nursing Care of Women & Childbearing Families

For Fall Semester

Year 1 CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5020: Pharmacology
  • GCNL 5110: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Nursing Care of Adults & Older Adults
  • GCNL 5160: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Nursing Care of Persons with Psychiatric Illness
  • GNUR 6054: Research & Biostatistical Process for Health Care

Year 2 CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5180: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Synthesis Practicum
  • GCNL 5240: Leadership Seminar: Microsystem Analysis & Capstone Development
  • GNUR 6058: Nursing, Ethics, and the Larger Healthcare Arena
  • GNUR 5270: Care Environment Management II*

For Spring Semester

Year 1 CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5130: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Nursing Care of Adults with Common Health Problems
  • GCNL 5170: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Nursing Care of Persons with Complex Health Problems
  • GCNL 5230: Theory for Research and Nursing Practice
  • GNUR 5260: Care Environment Management I & Leading Teams*
  • GNUR 6010: Advanced Pathophysiology

Year 2 CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5250: CNL in the Health Care System
  • GCNL 5991: CNL Role Immersion & Capstone
  • GNUR 6052: Epidemiology and World Health*
  • GNUR 6056: Health Policy: Leading Change to Advance Population Health*

*Courses in which the CNL Program Manager must enroll you in.

RN to CNL Course Information

Post-BSN RN-CNL Required Courses

For the Summer Semester

Year 1 post-BSN RN-CNL Students enroll in: 

  • GNUR 6060: Culture & Health: Implications for Practice (May also be taken in Summer prior to Fall Year 1 with CNL Program Director's approval.)

For the Fall Semester

Year 1 post-BSN RN-CNL Students enroll in:

  • GNUR 6010: Advanced Pathophysiology (or spring semester year 1)
  • GNUR 6054: Research & Biostatistical Process for Health Care
  • GNUR 6056: Health Policy: Leading Change to Advance Population Health (or summer semester year 1)

Year 2 post-BSN RN-CNL Students enroll in: 

  • GCNL 5240: Leadership Seminar: Microsystem Analysis & Capstone Development
  • GNUR 5270: Care Environment Management II
  • GNUR 6058: Nursing, Ethics and the Larger Healthcare Arena

For the Spring Semester

Year 1 post-BSN RN-CNL Students enroll in:

  • GNUR 5260: Care Environment Management I & Leading Teams
  • GNUR 6052: Epidemiology and World Health

Year 2 post-BSN RN-CNL Students enroll in: 

  • GCNL 5250: CNL in the Health Care System
  • GCNL 5991: CNL Role Immersion & Capstone

Post-ADN RN-CNL Required Courses

For the Summer Semester

Year 1 post-ADN RN-CNL Students enroll in: 

  • NUIP 4200: Pathophysiology
  • GNUR 6060: Culture & Health: Implications for Practice (or Summer Year 2)

Year 2 post-ADN RN-CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5150: Clinical Practice & Decision-Making: Community Health

For the Fall Semester

Year 1 post-ADN RN-CNL Students enroll in:

  • GNUR 6054: Research & Biostatistical Process for Health Care
  • GNUR 6056: Health Policy: Leading Change to Advance Population Health (or summer semester)

Year 2 post-ADN RN-CNL Students enroll in: 

  • GCNL 5240: Leadership Seminar: Microsystem Analysis & Capstone Development
  • GNUR 5270: Care Environment Management II
  • GNUR 6058: Nursing, Ethics and the Larger Healthcare Arena

For the Spring Semester

Year 1 post-ADN RN-CNL Students enroll in:

  • GCNL 5230: Theory for Research and Nursing Practice
  • GNUR 5260: Care Environment Management I & Leading Teams
  • GNUR 6010: Advanced Pathophysiology

Year 2 post-ADN RN-CNL Students enroll in: 

  • GCNL 5250: CNL in the Health Care System
  • GCNL 5991: CNL Role Immersion & Capstone
  • GNUR 6052: Epidemiology and World Health
MSN Course Information

MSN Course Information

SIS Planners must be reviewed and updated as needed each semester. The planner must be updated before advisors can lift the Advising Hold in SIS.

Please reference your planner and the Graduate Plans of Study for enrollment. 

 

DNP Course Information

Summer Semester 2024:

In-person class dates: 5/28, 6/11, 6/25, 7/9, and 7/30

Fall Semester 2024:

In-person class dates: 8/27 for Stats Only, 9/3, 9/17, 10/15, 11/19, and 12/3

Link to Plans of Study:

You will find BSN-DNP standard track POS's, BSN-DNP accelerated track POS's, and Post-Master's DNP POS's.

https://community.nursing.virginia.edu/students/academic-resources/curriculum/

Department Consent Form for GNUR 9600:

This is a required DocuSign form to be completed by you, the student, signed by your advisor, and then lastly signed by the APRN/DNP Program Manager. Once the form is complete, you will be manually enrolled in GNUR 9600 by the APRN/DNP Program Manager.

https://apps.nursing.virginia.edu/forms/dnp-department-consent/

Health Sciences Library:

https://guides.hsl.virginia.edu/SON

 

PhD Course Information

Suggested Plan of Study

PhD Required Courses

For the Fall Semester:

Year 1 PhD students enroll in:

  • GNUR 8000: Seminar in Nursing Science
  • GNUR 8130: Statistical Methods for Health Care Research I
  • GNUR 8210: Scientific Progress in Nursing
  • GNUR 8220: Philosophy of Science and Development of Nursing Knowledge
  • GNUR 8435: Scholarship in Research Ethics

Year 2 PhD students enroll in: 

  • GNUR 8410: Grant Writing Seminar
  • GNUR 8435: Scholarship in Research Ethics (if not previously completed)

For the Spring Semester: 

Year 1 PhD students enroll in: 

  • GNUR 8110: Quantitative Research Methods
  • GNUR 8120: Qualitative Research Methods
  • GNUR 8140: Statistical Methods for Health Care Research II
  • GNUR 8230: Historical Inquiry in Nursing

Year 2 PhD students enroll in:

  • Cognates and electives

Variable Semesters

  • GNUR 8435: Scholarship in Research Ethics OR (BIMS 7100)
  • BIMS 7100: Research Ethics OR (PHSE 7650)
  • PHSE 7650: Ethics and Law in Human Subjects Research (offered in odd years, fall semester)
  • GNUR 9110: Research Practicum (4 credits minimum)
  • GNUR 9890: Dissertation Seminar (enroll post-comprehensive exam)
  • GNUR 9999: Dissertation Research
  • Cognates and Electives

GSAS Dissertation and Graduation Requirements

Please refer to the GSAS website for important information related to Dissertation approval and Graduation. 

Important Dates

Apply to Graduate:

  • Fall Semester - by October 1st
  • Spring Semester - by February 1st
  • Summer Semester - by July 1st

All degree requirements (except grades) are expected to be completed by the following deadlines:

  • Fall Semester - November 30th
  • Spring Semester - April 30th
  • Summer Semester - July 31st
Contacts

Contacts

School of Nursing Registrar

CMN 1026
son-registrar@virginia.edu

BSN Program Manager

Diana Torres
MCL 4044
gqf9ta@virginia.edu

CNL & PhD Program Manager

Whitney Pippin
CMN 2017
wmp5w@virginia.edu

Advanced Practice Program Manager (MSNs and DNPs)

Devan Cooper
MCL 4017
ded6v@virginia.edu

Checklist

Checklist

Checklist

  1. All students graduating in December must apply to graduate in SIS. 
  2. Graduate students must be sure the Planner is up to date in SIS.
  3. Meet with your Advisor.
  4. Make sure all Holds are cleared.
  5. Enroll in Summer and Fall courses in SIS at the assigned date and time.