PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is designed for a person who is currently a Registered Nurse and is seeking to complete the requirements for an earned Bachelor of Science degree. The curriculum provides registered nurses with a better understanding of the ethical, cultural, political, economic, and social issues that affect patients and influence healthcare delivery.  Critical thinking, leadership, management, research, physical assessment, and health promotion across a variety of community-based healthcare settings is emphasized in the program.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

• To develop critical thinkers who creatively engage in rational inquiry utilizing the nursing process in both well-defined, relatively common clinical situations and in complex clinical situations
• To develop skilled healthcare providers prepared to provide a higher level of nursing assessment in their direct or indirect care of ethically, culturally and/or spiritually diverse patients and their families
• To develop effective collaborators of healthcare prepared to work in a leadership capacity to design and manage the care of individuals and their families 
• To develop caring and therapeutic communicators prepared to utilize broadened tools of communication in advocating the comfort and self-determination of patients and their families
• To develop nursing professionals practicing nursing within a legal/ethical framework

PROGRAM LENGTH
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program can be completed in 17 months.

BSN PROGRAM COURSES
Course Number         Title                           
NUR330             Principles of Nursing                                                                  
NUR340            Health Assessment, Education and Promotion                             
NUR410            Disease Process/Role of Nursing                                                
NUR415            Ethical Decision Making                                                            
NUR420            Nursing Research                                                                    
NUR425            Community Health Nursing                                                       
NUR426            Community Health Nursing Clinical (optional)                               
NUR427             Evidence-Based Practice                                                         
NUR430            Transformational Leadership                                                    
NUR435            Nursing Education and Promotion                                             
NUR440            Organizational Behavior                                                           
NUR445            Nursing Seminar                                                                     
NUR450            Pharmacology or NUR455 Nursing in the Geriatric Population         
NUR460            Nursing Management                                                             
GE 330             Communication for the Workplace                                            
GE 401            Technological Impact on Society                                               
GE 402            Working Around the World                                                     

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