BSc (Hons) Degree in Nursing

Objectives

The program includes a wide range of topics which reflect the contemporary knowledge-base of professional practice.

This course is designed to introduce nursing students to the ethos, culture, practice and evidence base of the discipline of nursing. Students will also gain an understanding of the needs of people that are in the care of nurses, a sense of “how nursing works” and the personal/professional qualities that are associated with effective nursing practice.

The overall aim of the course is to stimulate and enable students to become compassionate, caring, competent and critically aware nurse practitioners.

Practice Placement

This course includes practice experience that is designed to introduce students to the practical aspects of the nursing profession. Practice placement aims to allow students to focus on the practical role and functions of nursing. This will allow the student to see how the nursing function works within the care system of Cyprus and the European Union. Equally it will allow the student to experience the multidisciplinary nature of health care. The opportunity will therefore be created which will allow the student to develop self-awareness and self-insight, particularly in relation to the ethical aspects of the profession.

Practice placement will allow for experience to be gained in a guided setting under the supervision of qualified nursing staff in hospitals, clinics and healthcare centres. This will help students integrate theory into practice, thus enhancing the transfer of learning. Where feasible, the student will be able to practice his/her nursing skills acquired in a laboratory setting.

Graduation Requirements

Students studying towards the BSc (Honours) Degree in Nursing are required to take a minimum of two hundred and seventy eight (278) ECTS. Two hundred and forty-two (242) ECTS mast come from core subjects and thirty six (36) from electives.

Honours Degree

At the time of graduation, each candidate for an Honours Degree must have:

• Completed successfully all the prescribed course work of the examination syllabus;
• Achieved the required minimum number of credits of prescribed course work by completing successfully all core and elective subjects as required by the program of studies.

As a general rule, all students must have

• Completed successfully a minimum of 278 ECTS; and
• Secured a G.P.A* of at least 2.00 on courses taken successfully during semester 5-8.

A candidate who has fulfilled the requirements of the prescribed scheme of study and has satisfied the examiners shall be eligible for the conferment of a Bachelors Degree with Honours in one of the following classes on the basis of his Grade Point Average (G.P.A)

Candidates not deemed to have attained the standard required for earning an Honours Degree may be granted the Pass Degree.