Nursing (RN - B.S.)

Program: RN - B.S.
Department of Nursing
College of Health and Human Services

Liberal Arts Room 345~ 260-481-6816 ~ ipfw.edu/nursing

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The student learning outcomes for the degree are as follows:

Professionalism

Junior	Senior
Apply professional and ethical behaviors in practice through accountability, assertiveness, and advocacy.	Validate professionalism through awareness, assertiveness, accountability, and advocacy.

Leadership/Interdisciplinary Teamwork

Junior	Senior
Demonstrate beginning leadership skills as a team member in the delivery of safe and effective patient care.	Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in the delivery of patient-centered care in complex healthcare environments.

Critical Thinking/Clinical Reasoning

Junior	Senior
Integrate critical thinking skills in addressing complex health related issues across the lifespan.	Formulate nursing practice decisions, using critical thinking skills and evolving knowledge from nursing science, the biological and behavioral sciences and the arts and humanities

Evidence-Based Practice

Junior	Senior
Integrate evidence-based practice in the delivery of safe and effective care to vulnerable populations.	Evaluate the effectiveness of health outcomes through the application of theory and evidence-based practice.

Communication

Junior	Senior
Adapt communication to address the needs of vulnerable and diverse populations.	Employ effective communication skills in partnering with individuals, families, communities and interprofessional health care teams to design and provide safe, evidence-based patient-centered care.

Informatics

Junior	Senior
Utilize instructional technology and information literacy skills to identify best practices to support evidencebased practice.	Leverage technology to synthesize information and knowledge from data to improve health care.

Nursing Program Admission Criteria

Admission into the RN to B.S. completion program requires that the applicant be a graduate of an ACEN orNLNAC accredited associate degree or diploma program in nursing and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.3 on a 4.0 scale.  Students entering the RN to B.S. Completion program must have obtained RN Licensure in the United States prior to acceptance into the program.

Including transfer hours from an associate-degree institution, student will need at least 120 credit hours to graduate:

• Nursing credits from A.S. in nursing - 54 credit hours
• Nursing Pre-requisite courses - 30 credit hours  (see below)
• Nursing courses in RN to B.S. - 36 credit hours

Nursing pre-requisite courses (30 credit hours):  These courses are to be taken before you start in the RN to B.S. program.  If as part of your associate’s or previous bachelor’s program you completed the General Education Core requirements then you have fulfilled the Nursing pre-requisite courses.

Category A:  Foundational Intellectual Skills

1. Written Communication (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)
2. Speaking and Listening (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)
3. Quantitative Reasoning (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)

Category B:  Ways of Knowing

1. Scientific Ways of Knowing (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)
2. Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)
3. Humanistic and Artistic Ways of Knowing (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)
4. Interdisciplinary Ways of Knowing (at least 3 credits and all outcomes in approved courses)

The remaining 9 credit hours of the state-mandated general education should be taken by students from among the approved courses in Categories A and B as needed to fulfill their remaining state-mandated outcomes.