RN-BSN Completion
Areas of Emphasis
Students must complete requirements in one of the following areas of emphasis:
- RN-BSN Completion
- Accelerated RN-BSN Completion with graduate MSN Leadership program
RN-BSN Completion
The RN-BSN Baccalaureate program prepares the graduate to:
- Use knowledge from liberal and interdisciplinary problem focused education as a basis for nursing practice.
- Use knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement and patient safety to provide high quality healthcare.
- Engage in a systematic process of evaluation, translation, and application of scientific evidence to inform nursing practice.
- Recognize the role of information management and patient care technologies to improve patient care outcomes.
- Examine how healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, influence healthcare systems and nursing practices.
- Integrate interprofessional communication and collaborative skills to optimize holistic patient care.
- Apply health promotion, disease and injury prevention strategies to improve population health.
- Promote professionalism and model the values of altruism, autonomy, caring, human dignity, integrity and social justice in nursing practice.
- Synthesize previous and newly acquired knowledge, theory, skills, and attitudes to address health care needs of culturally diverse individuals and populations across the continuum of healthcare environments.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing Support | 12 | |
| Research and Rhetoric 1 | ||
Therapeutic Nursing Intervention Electives (6 credits) | ||
| Principles of Financial Accounting | ||
| Varieties of World Culture | ||
| Business and Its Environment | ||
| Spreadsheet and Information Systems | ||
| Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Organizational Communication | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Sciences | ||
| Human Evolution | ||
| Human Nutrition | ||
| Infancy and Early Childhood Development | ||
| Middle Childhood and Adolescent Development | ||
| Adult Development and Aging | ||
| Dying, Death, and Loss | ||
| Theories of Personality | ||
| Psychopathology | ||
| Counseling and Psychotherapy | ||
| Sociology of the Family | ||
| Introduction to the Spanish Language I | ||
Statistics (choose 1 course): | ||
| Advanced Business Statistics | ||
| Introductory Statistics | ||
| Social Science Statistics | ||
Chemistry (choose 1 combination): 2 | ||
| Survey of General, Organic and Biochemistry and Survey of General, Organic, and Biochemistry Laboratory | ||
| Principles of Chemistry I and Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory | ||
| Principles of Chemistry II and Principles of Chemistry II Laboratory | ||
Critical Thinking Elective (choose 1 course): 3 | ||
| Law and the Individual | ||
| Human Information Processing | ||
| Macro Economic Analysis | ||
| Micro Economic Analysis | ||
| First Nations Intellectual Traditions | ||
| Biotechnology and Human Values | ||
| Ethnic Diversity and Human Values | ||
| Information Problems | ||
| Introduction to Philosophy | ||
| Contemporary Ethical Issues | ||
| Is Morality for Sale? | ||
| Elementary Logic | ||
| Biomedical Ethics | ||
| Philosophy of Culture | ||
| Philosophy, Religion, and Science | ||
| Ancient Philosophy | ||
| Early Modern Philosophy | ||
| Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion | ||
| Introduction to Public Policy | ||
| Upper-Level Nursing | 30 | |
Required | ||
| Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice | ||
| Chronic Care Management | ||
| Research and Evidence-Based Practice | ||
| Leadership and Management | ||
| Information Management and Healthcare Technology | ||
| Community Health Nursing | ||
| Community Health Nursing Practicum | ||
| Synthesis for Nursing Practice | ||
| Special Topics in Nursing (Repeatable; 2 topics required; 6 credits total) | ||
| Total Credits | 42 | |
| 1 | Satisfied with an ACT English score of 32 or higher |
| 2 | May be satisfied per Nursing Articulation Agreement |
| 3 | Critical thinking elective can be satisfied by certain humanities courses such as philosophy, or taken as a separate course. |
Accelerated RN-BSN Completion with graduate MSN Leadership program
The Accelerated RN-BSN Baccalaureate program prepares the graduate to:
- Use knowledge from liberal and interdisciplinary problem focused education as a basis for nursing practice.
- Use knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement and patient safety to provide high quality healthcare.
- Engage in a systematic process of evaluation, translation, and application of scientific evidence to inform nursing practice.
- Recognize the role of information management and patient care technologies to improve patient care outcomes.
- Examine how healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, influence healthcare systems and nursing practices.
- Integrate interprofessional communication and collaborative skills to optimize holistic patient care.
- Apply health promotion, disease and injury prevention strategies to improve population health.
- Promote professionalism and model the values of altruism, autonomy, caring, human dignity, integrity and social justice in nursing practice.
- Synthesize previous and newly acquired knowledge, theory, skills, and attitudes to address health care needs of culturally diverse individuals and populations across the continuum of healthcare environments.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing Support | 12 | |
Written Communication | ||
| Research and Rhetoric | ||
Therapeutic Nursing Intervention Electives (choose 6 credits): | ||
| Principles of Financial Accounting | ||
| Varieties of World Culture | ||
| Business and Its Environment | ||
| Spreadsheet and Information Systems | ||
| Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Organizational Communication | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Sciences | ||
| Human Evolution | ||
| Human Nutrition | ||
| Infancy and Early Childhood Development | ||
| Middle Childhood and Adolescent Development | ||
| Adult Development and Aging | ||
| Dying, Death, and Loss | ||
| Theories of Personality | ||
| Psychopathology | ||
| Counseling and Psychotherapy | ||
| Sociology of the Family | ||
| Introduction to the Spanish Language I | ||
Statistics (choose one course): | ||
| Advanced Business Statistics | ||
| Introductory Statistics | ||
| Social Science Statistics | ||
Speech 1 | ||
Chemistry (choose one combination): 2 | ||
| Survey of General, Organic and Biochemistry and Survey of General, Organic, and Biochemistry Laboratory | ||
| Principles of Chemistry I and Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory | ||
| Principles of Chemistry II and Principles of Chemistry II Laboratory | ||
Critical Thinking Elective (choose one course): 3 | ||
| Law and the Individual | ||
| Human Information Processing | ||
| Macro Economic Analysis | ||
| Micro Economic Analysis | ||
| First Nations Intellectual Traditions | ||
| Biotechnology and Human Values | ||
| Ethnic Diversity and Human Values | ||
| Information Problems | ||
| Introduction to Philosophy | ||
| Contemporary Ethical Issues | ||
| Is Morality for Sale? | ||
| Elementary Logic | ||
| Biomedical Ethics | ||
| Philosophy of Culture | ||
| Philosophy, Religion, and Science | ||
| Ancient Philosophy | ||
| Early Modern Philosophy | ||
| Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion | ||
| Introduction to Public Policy | ||
| Lower-Level Nursing 1 | ||
| Upper-Level Nursing | 30 | |
Required | ||
| Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice | ||
| Chronic Care Management | ||
| Research and Evidence-Based Practice 4 | ||
or NURSING 734 | Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice | |
| Leadership and Management 4 | ||
or NURSING 737 | Leadership in Complex Systems | |
| Information Management and Healthcare Technology 4 | ||
or NURSING 760 | Informatics for Nursing Leaders | |
| Community Health Nursing | ||
| Community Health Nursing Practicum | ||
| Synthesis for Nursing Practice | ||
Complete 6 credits of NURSING 492, choose two different topics | ||
| Special Topics in Nursing (Repeatable with different topics) | ||
| Total Credits | 42 | |
| 1 | Satisfied by articulation agreements/transfer credits. |
| 2 | Chemistry is required beginning September 1, 2007, if no previous college-level chemistry. |
| 3 | Critical thinking elective can be satisfied by certain humanities courses such as philosophy, or taken as a separate course. |
| 4 | Students must be granted permission to enroll in Graduate level coursework. For more information, please contact the Nursing department or refer to the Graduate catalog |
