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Days until classes:
Next classes start
Jun 4th
Program Length: 24 months
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Available Online: This program is delivered fully online.
Degree Overview
The Registered Nurse upgrade to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program prepares registered nurses (RNs) to meet the many changes in the healthcare field by expanding and enhancing their nursing education. This program prepares graduates for leadership roles and graduate study in nursing.
The graduate is prepared to utilize theory and research-based knowledge in the provision of care to the client, family, and community in a global society with flexibility to adapt to the changing nature of healthcare and healthcare roles. The graduate is also prepared to integrate care across multiple settings, managing the interactions between and among components of the integrated network of healthcare services. The graduate will be prepared for positions in community health clinics, private practice, hospitals, and patient care facilities.
This program is available to Registered Nurses only.
| Program Information | Bachelor of Science Completion in Nursing |
|---|---|
| Occupations Degree Prepares For (and SOC code of occupation) |
Acute Care Nurses - 29-1111.01 |
| Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses - 29-1111.02 | |
| Clinical Nurse Specialists - 11-9111.01 | |
| Critical Care Nurses - 29-1111.03 | |
| Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Post-secondary - 25-1072.00 | |
| Registered Nurses - 29-1111.00 | |
| Tuition and Fees | $26,250 |
| Cost of Books | Included |
| Room and Board | N/A |
| Job Placement Rate * | N/A% |
| On-Time Completion Rate | N/A |
| Median Title IV Debt | N/A |
| Median Non-Title IV Debt | N/A |
| Median Loan Debt | N/A |
Course Descriptions
CourseCourse NameCredits
Course Description
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Advanced Interpersonal Communication
This course is designed to provide students with the skills they need to be effective communicators. Students will apply interpersonal communication skills theory to various situations in order to understand the clear connection among theory, skills, and the life situations they will encounter.
Credits: 4.0
Home Healthcare
This course focuses on one of the fastest growing areas in healthcare-the shift from hospital to home care. Emphasis will be placed on working with individual clients of all ages, integrating family/ caregiver issues, and using environmental and community resources to promote the optimal well being of home health patients.
Credits: 4.0
Health Program Evaluation
This course provides students with an introduction to the nature of program planning and evaluation, with an insight into some of the problems and opportunities associated with evaluating program effectiveness. Students progress through an evaluation process in order to experience both the practical and the theoretical aspects of assessing health program performance and outcomes. Course components include strategies for developing evaluation questions, standards, and designs; designing program evaluations; data gathering and analysis; report writing; and employing evaluation results to improve program performance.
Credits: 4.5
U.S. History Since the Civil War
This course offers students an overview of how America transformed itself, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. The student will learn how dominant and subordinate groups have affected the shifting balance of power in America since 1863. Major topics include: reconstruction, the frontier, the 1890s, America?s transition to an industrial society, Progressivism, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, economic and social change in the late 20th century, and power and politics since 1974.
Credits: 4.0
The American Healthcare System
This course provides students with a current overview of the changing roles and the component parts of the U.S. healthcare system. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing the technical, the economic, the political, and the social forces responsible for these changes. Resources, systems processes, outcomes, and health policy are also addressed.
Credits: 4.5
Concepts of Professional Nursing
This course prepares nurses for their unique position as healthcare professionals. The healthcare system?s demands are continuously changing and transforming the nurse?s role. The framework for professional practice is constructed in the course as nurses examine their roles as health promoter, teacher-learner, leader-manager, research consumer, advocate, colleague, and collaborator.
Credits: 4.5
Health Assessment
This course focuses on physical examinations. Students develop the necessary skills to conduct a holistic health assessment across the life span. Emphasis is placed on health history-taking, cultural consideration, nutrition and mental health assessment, physical examination, health promotion, and clinical assessment tools. Critical thinking, communication, and documentation skills for client charting are required to complete coursework.
Credits: 4.5
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing
This course explains what nursing theory is and how this theory is incorporated into professional nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on reasoning skills and incorporating abstract ideas into practice. Additional topics include how theory relates to the practice of nursing and how theory and reasoning are interrelated.
Credits: 4.5
Nursing Issues in the 21st Century
This course addresses current issues and challenges faced by nurses practicing in the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on historical and current trends and issues and the emergence of new roles and responsibilities for professional nurses
Credits: 4.5
Professional Leadership and Management in Nursing
This course focuses on the essential information and key skills nurses must learn to ensure success in a dynamic healthcare environment. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical basis for effective nursing management, organization, and leadership; essential skills of nurse leaders/managers; and human resource management.
Credits: 4.5
Family and Community Health Nursing
This course focuses on the general principles of family and community health nursing and prepares nurses to apply these principles to practice. Emphasis is placed on the ability to work independently and in conjunction with others; to deliver care from a broader theoretical perspective (family and population- based); and to address the increasing need for nursing services and perspectives within the local, national, and global communities.
Credits: 7.5
Case Management
This course presents basic information that nurses and healthcare professionals need if they are to become active advocates for their clients. Content includes the historical background of service coordination, identification of appropriate resources and client needs, and case management differentiation. Emphasis is placed on clinical pathways and extended care pathways.
Credits: 4.5
Introduction to Nursing Research
Students are introduced to nursing research as it relates to changing and improving nursing practice. Emphasis is placed on preparing students to evaluate current nursing literature for scientific and clinical merit in order to solve clinical problems and improve practice. Topics include fundamentals of research, steps in the research process, research design, data collection and analysis, and critical appraisal and utilization of nursing research. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are developed and emphasized throughout the course.
Credits: 4.5
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
This course provides a foundational understanding of evidence-based practice and delineates the steps to implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. Students are presented with ?real-life? examples to assist in actualizing important concepts and overcoming barriers in the implementation of evidence-based care.
Credits: 4.5
Synthesis of Nursing
This course allows the student to demonstrate self-directed learning, and mastery of all previous course objectives of the BSN program.
Credits: 3.0
Synthesis of Nursing - Practicum
This course allows the student to effectively transition to the professional nursing role as the fulfillment of the BSN program outcomes. (Prerequisite: NUR 490)
Credits: 3.0
Critical Thinking
This course is designed to provide an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking and challenges the student to question his/her own assumptions through analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The course explains fundamental concepts, describes the most common barriers to critical thinking, and offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.
Credits: 4.0
Biological Psychology
This course introduces the student to the intricate relationship between biology and psychology. The student is exposed to the emerging field of biopsychology in which fascinating new discoveries are constantly being made. Major topics include: anatomy of the nervous system, plasticity of the brain, sensory systems and attention, wakefulness and sleeping, emotional behaviors, the biology of learning and memory, and psychological disorders.
Credits: 4.0
Pathophysiology
This course focuses on the mechanism of disease. Emphasis is placed on identifying disease manifestations, complications, and general treatment measures. Students examine conditions that may alter health status including normal changes such as aging and pregnancy.
Credits: 4.5
Sociology of Aging
This course focuses on an interdisciplinary approach that provides the concepts, the information and the examples students need to achieve a basic understanding of aging as a social process. The course addresses a broad range of societal issues and covers concepts associated with an aging population. It examines the concept of aging on both an individual and a societal level. Major topics include the history of aging in America; physical aging; psychological aspects of aging; personal adaptation to aging; death and dying; community social services; how aging affects personal needs and resources; and government responses to the needs of the aging.
Credits: 4.0
Statistics
This course focuses on the practical skills needed in statistics analysis. Topics covered include distributions, relationships, randomness, inference, proportions, regression, and variance. Emphasis is placed on understanding the use of statistical methods and the demands of statistical practice. (Prerequisite: MAT101)
Credits: 4.0
Total Courses: 21Total Credits: 91
Admissions Information
Applicants for admission to Independence University must have graduated from an accredited high school, private secondary school, or have completed the equivalent (GED). All students who graduate after January 2006 must provide a high school transcript to check eligibility for the new Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG). In addition, applicants must have Internet access and successfully complete the online readiness test.
Students seeking admission to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program must hold a valid Registered Nurse license and shall have completed sufficient college credit to attain the equivalent of third-year college status (e.g., 60 semester credit hours or 90 quarter credit hours). Prospective students should also have completed an appropriate number of credit hours of general education (e.g., 15 semester credit hours or 22.5 quarter credit hours). Semester hours will be converted to quarter credit hours using the standard formula of semester hours x 1.5 = quarter credit hours. For example: 3 semester hours equal 4.5 quarter credit hours.
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Tuition & Financial Aid
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