Curriculum  

 

Curriculum Plan for the RN-BSN Advanced Track

  • The Advanced Track Curriculum Plan for Registered Nurse students requires the same 58 semester hours of general studies courses as for prelicensure students. The nursing component consists of eight nursing courses (34 semester hours).

  • Health Assessment for RNs (NURN 211) offers the registered nursing student a systems approach for holistic appraisal of health care recipients.

  • Issues and Ideas in American Nursing (NURN 307) provides a historical context for the baccalaureate degree and is a prerequisite for the clinical bridge course, NURN 308, Professional Seminar for RNs.

  • Professional Seminar for RNs (NURN 308) integrates the College's organizational framework of baccalaureate nursing through classroom and clinical of hight risk populations and acute and chronic illness.

  • Nursing Research (NUR 321) focuses on the critique and application of research. The content in NUR 321 Nursing Research, NUR 410 Community Focused Nursing, NUR 420 Leadership Practicum and Role Transition, and Nursing Electives is identical to the prelicensure track.

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Suggested Sequence of Courses

Spring
Issues and Ideas in American Nursing (NURN 307--2/3 hrs.)
Nursing Research (NUR 321--3 hrs.)
Summer
*Professional Seminar for RNs (NURN 308--5 hrs.)
Health Assessment for RNs (NURN 211--2 hrs.)
Fall
*Community Focused Nursing (NUR 410--6 hrs.)
Nursing Elective (NELECT--4 hrs.)
Spring
*Leadership Practicum and Role Transition
 
 Nursing Elective
(NUR 420--8 hrs.)
 
(NELECT--4 hrs.)

*Denotes practicum courses which must be taken in sequence.


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