The University Of Georgia

BSc in Nursing

The program includes 240 credits, consisting of 228 ECTS of core subjects, of which the Georgian Language is a 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.

Knowledge and understanding

• Knows and determines basic theoretical aspects of nursing;
• Describes, interprets and reviews designation and rules for conduction of nursing manipulations and procedures;
• Understands the importance of preventive, diagnostic, treatment-rehabilitation and palliative measures at the individual and population levels

Skills

• Applies the "Nursing Assessment“ method and nursing theories;
• Performs nursing manipulations and procedures;
• Provides the nursing service process with the use of relevant medical technologies and methods;
• Determines and assesses the impact of the health system and policy on nursing activities;
• Studies, compares and assesses the factors affecting individual and population health using situational analysis

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.

• 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 from various electronic and paper-based resources
• Written work methods
• Essays
• Presentations
• Verbal, and oral methods
• Interactive Lectures