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About the Program
The King College Nursing faculty believe nursing serves society through the
competent and compassionate delivery of direct and indirect health care services
to individuals, families, and communities, guided by Christian values. As a
professional discipline, nursing is based on a strong foundation of knowledge
from the humanities, arts and sciences, and from nursing and health-related
disciplines, which integrate academic and practice components.
The BSN accelerated program for Registered Nurses provides a unique
alternative to the traditional method of pursuing a Bachelor’s degree. This
program is designed as a transformational learning experience leading to
personal and professional skill development to meet the needs of adult learners.
The total number of hours required at King College to complete the BSN degree
is 48 semester hours, depending on a student’s prior academic experience. The
program is full time and is designed so that a student with 76 credit hours of
work completed at an approved college will graduate in four semesters.
In addition to the cohort structure, accelerated pace, applied learning, and
participative methodology previously discussed under the features that make the
Center for Graduate and Professional Studies programs unique, the King College
RN-BSN program also stresses the following:
- Clinical Learning. Nursing practice requires a broad array of
essential competencies gained through practice-based clinical experience and
service-learning activities.
- Latest Technology. Contemporary technology enhances the educational
experience and preparation for meaningful and successful careers. The faculty
encourage the use of web-enhanced activities to influence and promote learning
for those receiving and providing healthcare.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
In order to graduate with a BSN degree, students are required to accrue a
minimum of 124 credit hours of study. Upon successful completion of the program,
all graduates are prepared for professional nursing practice in a variety of
hospital or community settings, and they have been provided with an adequate
foundation for graduate study.
RN-BSN program graduates will be prepared to meet the following competency
outcomes:
- Manage nursing care that is competent and culturally sensitive.
- Promote, maintain, or restore health for clients of all ages and with
diverse needs.
- Apply core nursing competencies of assessment and therapeutic
intervention, communication, critical thinking, human caring, teaching,
management and leadership, and knowledge integration from the arts and
sciences, nursing and related health sciences.
- Collaborate, communicate and negotiate with nurses, other health care
providers, religious congregations, and community agencies to promote,
maintain, or restore health and evaluate nursing care outcomes.
- Incorporate relevant, contemporary technology to promote effective health
and function of clients, employers, communities, self, and the profession.
- Engage in continued learning and development to improve the quality of
professional and personal competence and accountability.
- Engage in activities to promote respectful citizenship, Christian values,
and the positive health and well- being for clients by advocating for them and
allocating and managing physical, fiscal, and human resources.
SEMESTER SCHEDULE
The King College RN-BSN program will typically enroll a new cohort of
students in January and August of each year. Appropriate breaks are taken for
the Thanksgiving, Christmas/New Year, Easter, Memorial Day, and Independence Day holidays. The program is comprised of four 15 week semesters and
is 16 months in total duration.
Transfer credit in nursing is automatically recognized for students who
graduate from approved nursing programs. There is no time limit on previously
earned college credit.
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