R.N. to B.S. in Nursing

All In For What You’ll Learn and Who You’re Becoming.

You already have the heart for nursing. Now you just need your RN to BS degree.

Through customized learning pathways, enhance your career and complete your bachelor’s degree in 12-24 months while working.

Boost your skills, critical thinking, and earning potential. Are you ready to go all in?

RN to BS in Nursing Overview

The BS program at Roberts Wesleyan University is designed to accommodate your lifestyle with an accelerated program that can be completed in as little as 12 months.

Nurses are required to work in complex and ever-changing environments. This program will enhance your clinical and professional competenices:

• Promoting Safe Nursing Practices, Quality Safety Initiatives, and Quality Patient Outcomes

• Using Evidence-Based Practice to Plan and Evaluate Outcomes of Care

• Forming Strategies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Across Patient Populations

• Communicating with Interdisciplinary Teams to Lead New Healthcare Initiatives

Your courses will be taught by faculty who have nursing experience, proficiency in their area of nursing practice, and have demonstrated scholarship. You will apply the knowledge you gain to clients, families, and groups across their lifespan. Graduates from Roberts Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in nursing will be prepared to practice using advocacy, autonomy, accountability, ethics, and respect. Upon completion of the RN to BS program, the graduate will be a nursing professional who:

• Integrates and applies nursing knowledge, and knowledge from other disciplines as a foundation for safe quality nursing practice

• Provides developmentally appropriate whole person, evidence-based care that is respectful, compassionate and acknowledges preferences, values, diverse needs, and resources of the recipients of team-based care that is informed by a Christian worldview recognizing the patient is a full partner in and the source of control in team-based care.

• Collaborates as a member of the interprofessional team to support and improve equitable, positive population health outcomes locally, regionally, and globally.

• Applies research and evidence with the goal to improve recipient of care outcomes and transform health care in practice setting

• Employs established and emerging safety principles and improvement science to provide safe, effective, equitable, whole person care and contribute to a culture of provider workplace safety.

• Works collaboratively across professions and with care team members, patients, families, and communities to provide quality care.

• Effectively works in teams within complex systems considering health care trends and resources across the continuum of care to advocate for recipients of care.

• Applies information and communication, and informatics processes to deliver health care services in accordance with best practices, professional and regulatory standards.

• Practices with accountability and integrity reflecting professional nursing characteristics and values within the context of a Christian worldview.

• Participates in activities and self-reflection that fosters holistic health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning and the acquisition of nursing expertise and leadership skills.

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