Start your online competency-based BSN degree
Prepare to enhance your nursing practice, faster. When you transfer credits from your Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), you can complete your Registered Nurse (RN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Competency-Based) in as little as 12 months.
Self-governed, with the assistance of your faculty practitioners and faculty mentor, this program is designed for working professionals who have an associate degree in nursing, an unencumbered RN license and one year of professional experience.
Core Courses
3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
Students will describe the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and clinical thinking processes needed for professional growth as a practitioner, leader, and educator.
Career-relevant skills that are aligned to this course
3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
Students will analyze and describe how consumer-driven health information and health informatics redefine how health care is discussed, researched, and provided across various health professions.
Career-relevant skills that are aligned to this course
3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
This course examines electronic modalities that assist in patient-centered health care management. Topics include informatics, automation of data management, and evaluation of information systems. A key focus is the relationship between technology in health care delivery and patient safety.
Career-relevant skills that are aligned to this course
3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
This course analyzes the role of the contemporary nurse as a leader and manager in the profession and health care industry. Topics include managing heath care resources, assessing quality and risk in patient care, and decision-making models.
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3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
In this course, students will describe and demonstrate the impact of ethical research outcomes on nursing practice.
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3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
This course addresses legal and ethical aspects of the professional nurse's role in health care delivery and management. Topics include ethical and legal principles, ethical decision-making, standards of care, scope of practice, state Nurse Practice Acts, and Code of Ethics.
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3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
This course examines the nurse's role as a leader in health care. Topics include financial and resource management, cost controls, fiscal responsibility, and health care policies and reform. A key concept is the interrelationship among health policy, legislation, regulation, finance, and practice.
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3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
This course addresses the role of nursing in community and public health. Topics include theories and models of community and public health nursing, diversity, advocacy, family and community assessment, and health education. A key focus is evidence-based health promotion and preventive care of individuals, families, and communities. This course requires a minimum of 45 Direct Care Hours.
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3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
In this course, students will learn how quality improvement in clinical nursing as well as how regulatory bodies and accrediting standards impact patient safety. Students will also learn to assess risks, analyze the effects of nurse-sensitive indicators on quality patient care, and evaluate how the management of quality drives patient safety and improves health care systems. Factors that influence quality, safe, patient-centered care will be evaluated by students.
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3 CREDITS | 3 SKILLS
In this capstone course, students integrate and synthesize the content and experiences from all nursing courses into a final leadership project.