The program learning outcomes are designed to coincide with the Board of Nursing’s Differentiated Essential Competencies.  

Member of the Profession:

• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability in the quality of care for patients, families, populations and communities.
• Pursue life-long learning as means to enhance nursing practice, including analyzing research findings as they relate to the nursing profession and health promotion.
• Demonstrate effective leadership and management skills to promote and manage healthcare using best practices.

Provider of Patient-Centered Care

• Synthesize knowledge from behavioral, biological sciences, and previous nursing courses to provide sensitive care to individuals, families, and communities.
• Coordinate and Implement education plans for patients, families, populations, and communities to address health maintenance, health promotion, and risk reduction.
• Utilize clinical reasoning, knowledge, evidence-based practice, theoretical foundations, and research findings as the basis for decision-making and comprehensive patient care.

Patient Safety Advocate

• Develop goals and outcomes utilizing theoretical knowledge and analysis, research, and evidence-based data to reduce patient and community risks and promote safe environments.
• Demonstrate knowledge related to scope of practice, including ethical, legal, and safety standards.

Member of the Healthcare Team

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills in the professional environment, collaborating with patients, families, and healthcare team to maintain optimal health status and coordinated care.
• Examine healthcare policy and regulatory environments that impact the delivery of healthcare.

• Acceptance into Galveston College.
• Grade point average (GPA) 2.8 or higher. Only courses required for BSN will be counted towards GPA, including any completed nursing courses, pre-requisite courses, and any core curriculum courses.
• Students are ineligible for acceptance into the program if a transcript review reflects more than one (1) D or F in a core nursing or required core general education course. The student is ineligible even the course was repeated for a satisfactory grade.
• Proof of successful completion of an accredited Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN).
• Active unencumbered Registered Nursing license in the state of Texas. If the applicant has earned an ADN, but has not attempted the NCLEX examination, the applicant must successfully take the NCLEX prior to the completion of the first 8-week semester. If the student fails to do this by the end of the first 8-week semester, they will be withdrawn from the program and will need to reapply.
• Must be actively employed as a Registered Nurse or Graduate Nurse.
• Completion of all prerequisite courses prior to the first day of class. Applicant can be enrolled in final semester of prerequisite courses at the time of application submission.
• Two professional letters of reference. One should be from a current supervisor. The other one can be from anyone speaking to your professional manner.
• Valid Texas driver’s license or state ID.

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Prerequisites 

Core Curriculum (can be taken as part of the BSN) 

 

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Spring Semester 

 

 

Degree Completion Requirements 

 

AY 2023-2024 - 78% Full time student completion rate.

As a BSN prepared RN you are poised for a career transition into leadership. As hospitals plan to and apply for Magnet Recognition the system will need to show it is working toward 80% of its nursing staff possessing a BSN degree.  Magnet recognition does not require all nurses be BSN prepared, but does require all nurse managers and leaders to have at least a BSN. 

The five-year projected demand for BSN prepared Registered Nurses is expected to outpace that for ADN prepared Registered Nurses in Texas. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the demand for bachelor, master and doctoral prepared RNs continues to increase. “Having too few RNs with advanced education available to provide care negatively impacts patient outcomes.”   

This program is fully accredited by Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing effective January 19, 2023. This accreditation is valid through spring 2029.

 

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