Bachelor of Science Nursing

Required General Education Coursework for Students Without a Baccalaureate Degree:

General Education (32 hours)
*See Common Core Requirements
*PY101

Additional Tier II requirements (not in Professional General Education): Fine Art OR Humanities (3 hours)

Professional General Education Requirements (26 hours)
*Must include 200/300 level Psychology or Sociology course; Statistics or Data Analysis; Chemistry; Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology. These courses must be approved by the Accelerated BSN Program Director as meeting programmatic requirements. Students must earn a grade of “C” or better in these courses in a maximum of 2 attempts.

Required Prerequisite Coursework for Students With a Baccalaureate Degree:

Statistics or Data Analysis; Chemistry; Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology. These courses must be approved by the Accelerated BSN Program Director as meeting programmatic requirements.  Students must earn a grade of “C” or better in these courses in a maximum of 2 attempts.

Required Coursework for all Students:

Allied Health Requirements (3 hours)
Pathophysiology   This course must be approved by the Accelerated BSN Program Director as meeting programmatic requirements. Students must earn a “B” or better in this course in a maximum of 2 attempts.

Nursing Major Requirements (56 Hours)

NU304 Nursing Research (2)
NU307 Adaptation Nursing Applications (clinical and lab course) (6)*

*A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) may challenge NU307 by taking both a written and a practical examination. NU307 must either be successfully challenged or taken. Students who pass this examination will take NU360, a special problems course for one credit hour. This course provides students with clinical experiences.

NU308 Health Assessment (lab course) (4)
NU309 Psychosocial Integrity (clinical course) (3)
NU312 Pharmacology I (2) NU313 Pharmacology II (3)
NU321 Public Health and Community Nursing Concepts (clinical course) (3)
NU322 Family Nursing (clinical and lab course) (5)
NU334 Evidence-Based Adaptation Nursing I (clinical course) (8)
NU336 Evidence-Based Adaptation Nursing II (clinical course) (8)
NU451 Adaptation Nursing Practicum (clinical course) (6) (Capstone)
NU452 NCLEX Review (3)
NU456 Leadership and Management (3)