Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

AccreditationThe UCLA School of Nursing is approved by the Undergraduate and Graduate Councils of theAcademic Senate of the University of California at Los Angeles, the California Board ofRegistered Nursing, and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). TheUniversity of California, Los Angeles holds Western Association of Schools and Collegesaccreditation.Bachelor of Science Degree ProgramProgram GoalsGraduates of the UCLA Bachelor of Science-Generic/Prelicensure (BS-G) program are able toassume responsibility for organizing, implementing, and evaluating hospital-, population-, and/orcommunity-based plans of nursing care for a highly complex and culturally diverse society. TheGeneric/Prelicensure program prepares students with a focus on primary, secondary and/ortertiary prevention and treatment. Students successfully completing this program are nursesprepared as generalists with special skills in clinical leadership. This program integratesmulticulturalism and prepares students well for the changing healthcare system and thehealthcare needs of California’s demographically diverse population.Students successfully completing the B.S. degree also acquire an educational foundation forentry to the master’s program that prepares advanced practitioners, clinical specialists, andadministrators in primary and acute care.After completing the BS-G program, graduates are able to complete the following objectives:1. Select, evaluate and apply appropriate theory and research findings concerningindividual- and population-based health promotion and disease prevention, biobehavioraland health systems, social-environment, and cultural and human diversity to the nursingprocess with a variety of clients, families, and communities from ethnically diversecultural backgrounds2. Utilize the nursing process to promote biopsychosocial health and disease prevention andto support the resources of culturally diverse clients and families in community- and/orhospital-based settings3. Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration skills with clients and theirfamilies, research participants, other health professionals, colleagues, and policy makers4. Identify practice-based problems and hypotheses and critique research on issues ofimportance to nursing and health care delivery within culturally diverse hospital- andcommunity-based settings154