Nursing Degree - Bachelor of Science

College of Arts and Sciences

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The RN to BSN degree completion program provides the experienced Registered Nurse with a professional degree and preparation for a broadened role in healthcare through knowledge and skill development necessary for decision-making, leadership, management, and health promotion. Emphasis is on professional development, fundamentals of effective leadership, and a better understanding of the cultural, political, economic and social issues that influence the delivery of healthcare and patient outcomes.

Nursing (BSN) - (127 credit hours)

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Major Core: Required for this degree (36 credit hours)

• BSNU 360 Fundamentals of Professional Nursing

  This course serves as the foundation for the transition to professional nursing, introducing concepts useful for advancement into a leadership and/or management role in healthcare. Principles of the professional nurses’ role, effective leadership and followership, and promotion of the profession are highlighted in this course. Prerequisite: Admission to program

• BSNU 380 Professional Collaborative Strategies for Nurses

  This course is essential for the nurse leader/manager, as a member of the healthcare team, identifying the process for group collaboration for the purpose of decision-making. The focus of the course is aimed at development of effective leadership skills and strategies for collaboration and conflict management. Prerequisite: BSNU 360

• BSNU 400 Nursing Leadership

  The course will explore concepts and strategies that influence decision making, including negotiation strategies and considerations for the implication of professional values, motivation, education, and cultural competence. Prerequisite: BSNU 380

• BSNU 410 Nursing Informatics

  This course introduces the nurse’s role in sending and receiving healthcare information. Emphasis includes methods, tools, resources, and technology systems used in healthcare information exchange and decision-making. Prerequisite: BSNU 400

• BSNU 420 Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice

  The focus of this course is on consumership of healthcare research and the application to evidence-based nursing practice. The course introduces types of research, data collection, analysis of data, and interpretation of data for implementation into practice. Prerequisite: BSNU 410

• BSNU 430 Population-Based Health Promotion

  This course will provide the professional nurse with a broadened, population approach to wellness and health promotion as well as disease and injury prevention. The course includes examination of evidence-based strategies for health promotion/disease prevention for populations defined by criteria of healthcare disparity. Prerequisite: BSNU 420

• BSNU 440 Healthcare Regulation

  This course will examine regulation of healthcare through ethics, law, and policy. Emphasis is placed on the implications for healthcare delivery as well as nursing leadership and management. Prerequisite: BSNU 430

• BSNU 460 Nursing Management and Quality Healthcare

  The focus of this course is development of an understanding of organizational behavior and the manager’s role in the contribution to the transformation of the organization and quality healthcare delivery. Prerequisite: BSNU 440

• BSNU 480 Strategic Nursing Management

  This course will provide a realistic view of the day to day management issues that nurse leaders and managers face. Emphases will include nursing employment trends; recruitment and retention; staffing and delegation; finance/budgeting, and strategic planning. Prerequisite: BSNU 460