The Bachelor of Nursing program at the University of Georgia (UG) is designed for students who are passionate about healthcare, patient care, and medical sciences. This program prepares students for a career in global healthcare systems, offering theoretical knowledge, practical training, and hands-on clinical experience. Students are trained in fundamental nursing practices, emergency care, patient assessment, pharmacology, and disease prevention, ensuring they develop the skills needed to work in hospitals, clinics, research institutions, and healthcare organizations.
The program follows European and international nursing education standards, making it easier for graduates to work in Georgia, Europe, the U.S., Canada, and beyond. UG provides clinical rotations in top medical centers, where students gain real-world experience treating patients, assisting in surgeries, administering medications, and providing rehabilitative care.
With a growing demand for skilled nurses worldwide, this degree opens doors to high-paying nursing jobs in hospitals, elderly care facilities, and public health organizations. Nursing students at UG also receive training in advanced medical technologies, telemedicine, and digital health, equipping them for modern healthcare settings.
UG’s Nursing degree ensures that graduates are eligible to apply for international nursing certification exams, making it one of the best choices for students looking to study nursing in Georgia and build a successful healthcare career.
Official Syllabus:
Program goals:
Goal of the program is to support effective functioning of health system through training of qualified and highly competent nurses. This program, offering integrated theoretical and practical study, will give graduates a basic knowledge of theory and methodology of nursing and develop clinical skills for planning and managing the nursing process, develop their ability to adapt to changing needs, lifelong learning and continuous professional development, and as a result, nurse will be able to conduct independent professional activities. Achievement of this goal will facilitate implementation of reforms in the health system of the country.
Graduates of the program will be able to be employed in medical facilities and public health organizations. They will also be able to continue their studies in nursing specialization, or to obtain master’s, and in the future, PhD degrees
Methods for Attaining Learning Outcomes:
- Lecture-seminars • Workbook methods • Explanatory method • Demonstration method • Video-Audio teaching materials usage • Interactive teaching • Situational objectives • Role-play • Practical Work • Lab Work • Teamwork • Imitative performance • Problem Identification and solving • Critical Analysis •Discussion •Debates • Group Tasks • Projects • Problem Solving exercises • Case Study • Literature Overview • Critical Self-evaluation • Relevant material search out from various electronic and paper-based resources • Written work methods • Essays • Presentations • Verbal, oral methods • Interactive Lectures
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding
- Knows and determines basic theoretical aspects of nursing;
- Describes, explains, compares, distinguishes and reviews main issues in human anatomy-phisiology, biochemistry, pathological phisiology, pharmacology, social psychology, therapy, surgery, peditrics, maternal and infant care, geriatrics, and psychiatry;
- Knows stages of nursing process (nursing assessment, diagnosing, developing and implementation of the care plan, assessment of outcomes);
- Describes, interprets and reviews designation and rules for conduction of nursing manipulations and procedures;
- Knows the basic principles of health maintainance and improvement;
- Describes, interprets and reviews contemporary medical technologies and methods used in nursing;
- Knows the principles of research related to the issues of nursing care;
- Knows, defines and selects, as needed, the principles of management of difficult and problematic/critical (including conflict) situations;
- Understands the importance of preventive, diagnostic, treatment-rehabilitation and palliative measures at the individual and population levels;
- Understands nurse’s functions and responsibilities in delivery of health services;
- Understands, describers and interprets relationships between theoretical aspects of nursing;
- Understands the impact of political and social contexts on the provision of health care;
- Understands the need to provide the patient with complete, objective and timely information;
- Understands the importance of health team in conducting a nursing process.
Skills
- Applies the „Nursing Assessment“ method and nursing theories;
- Performs nursing manipulations and procedures;
- Uses the medications safely;
- Maintains nursing documentation;
- Provides the nursing service process with the use of relevant medical technologies and methods;
- Ensures patient advocacy and confidentiality;
- Retrieves, interprets and analyzes data and information and presents in the form of conclusions for solution of specific problem (including ethical) by standard and specific nursing methods during nursing care of a patient;
- Assesses partnership work with patients and their families;
- Determines and assesses the impact of health system and policy on the nursing activities;
- Studies, compares and assesses the factors affecting individual and population health using situational analysis;
- Analyzes the situations associated with various ethical and medical care issues;
- Assesses health status of individuals, population, including target groups (age, sex, ethnicity, nosological, social status);
- Keeps professional records (report, proposals) to solve problematic issues related to nursing care;
- Submits detailed written and oral reports on health system issues, including nursing-related issues, to health professionals and medical staff;
- Provides both oral and written informing and education to the patient, family members, and the general public, including those with communication problems.
Responsibility and autonomy
- Assesses own learning process in the areas of nursing (including therapeutic, surgical, pediatric, geriatric) and determines further learning needs;
- Ensures protection of the rights of patients and medical staff by taking into account professional, ethical and legal (both local and international) norms and strives to implement them in nursing practice;
- Takes into account importance of emotional, social, psychological, moral and physical conditions of the patient and patient’s family to establish effective nursing practice.
Date of approval: 03-12-2012
Approval protocol number: 05-12
Update protocol number: 36-14
Program details:
The program includes theoretical and laboratory studies, as well as 90 ECTS clinical practices. Clinical practices are conducted at the medical facilities of various profile by the clinical practice mentors. Laboratory and practical groups do not exceed 15 students. For evaluation of professional skills at the simulation and clinical environment are used the structured evaluation systems.
Teaching Process Characteristics:
Program includes 240 credits, consisting of 228 ECTS of core subjects, of which Georgian Leanguige is mandatory foreign language for international students, and English – is a mandatory foreign language for Georgian students, and 12 ECTS of electives, which the student chooses from offered 24 ECTS.
Core
- Medical-Surgical Nursing 1
- Medical-Surgical Nursing 2
- Introduction to Mathematics and Statistics
- Introduction to Nursing
- Human Anatomy-Physiology I
- Biochemistry
- Human Anatomy-Physiology 2
- Fundamentals of Nursing
- Microbiology
- Pathophysiology
- Nursing Assessment and Health Promotion
- Clinical Practice I- Nursing Assessment and Patient Care
- Pharmacology
- Social Psychology for Nurses
- Clinical Practice II – Therapy, Surgical
- Maternal and Infant Nursing (0B/GYN, Neonatology)
- Pediatric Nursing
- Teaching in Practice
- Geriatric Nursing
- Clinic Practice llI -OB/GYN, pediatric geriatric profile
- Critical Care Nursing
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Clinical Practice IV -in Psychiatry and Critical Medicine
- Nutrition for Nurses
- Public Health and Primary Healthcare
- Bioethics and medical law
- Clinical Practice V -Patient Care in Oncology and Primary Health
- Nursing Leadership
- Nursing Research
- Clinical practice VI-Consolidation
Elective
- Climate Change and Health
- Art in Healthcare
- Academic Writing
- Introduction to the History of Georgia
- Basics of Business and Economics
- Principles of Health Care Management for Nurses
- Nurse Epidemiology
Mandatory Elective
- General English I
- General English II
- Georgian, as a second language I
- Georgian, as a second language I
- Medical Georgian as a Foreign Language I
- Medical Georgian as a Foreign Language II
