Nursing, BSN - Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences

Mission

Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences Bachelor of Science in Nursing program provides quality education to a diverse student population through innovative curricula. Students are educated as nurse generalists to provide high quality, safe, and evidence-based practice to diverse populations in a variety of settings. The graduates are prepared for the role of the professional nurse which encompasses leadership, service, scholarship and lifelong learning.

Program Goals

• Prepare the graduate for the role of the professional nurse.
• Provide an environment of trust, student engagement, and academic support.
• Provide high-quality nursing education.
• Promote a culture of safety.
• Integrate the students into clinical practice and transition the students into nursing culture.
• Increase the diversity of the student population with an emphasis on cultural awareness.
• Be a leader in NCLEX board pass rate for the region.
• Provide population focused education to produce graduates that provide efficient, effective health care.
• Create an innovative, cutting edge environment for nursing students in this fast changing field of health care.

Program Outcomes

• Students will successfully graduate within their cohort time frame.
• BSN students express satisfaction with the BSN program.
• Students successfully pass NCLEX examination.
• Students will obtain employment within 12 months of graduation.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Practice safe, effective, holistic and client/family-centered nursing with diverse individuals, families and populations.
• Consistently demonstrate professionalism and leadership.
• Collaborate with other disciplines and organizations to develop interventions and strategies that optimize client outcomes.
• Synthesize multiple ways of knowing to inform practice, make clinical judgments and creatively transform knowledge to provide humanistic, quality client-centered care with tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Use principles of quality improvement, evidence-based practice, health care policy, and cost effectiveness to enhance client outcomes, and participates in opportunities to engender change.

BSN Degree Requirements

• Upon recommendation of the faculty, the College will confer the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing upon students who have fulfilled the following requirements:
• Completion of the 120 hours of the required program of study for the BSN degree.
• Completion of the 60 semester hours of nursing coursework within four years of enrollment at Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences at Rockhurst University.
• A maximum of 64 transfer credits allowed.
• A cumulative grade point average of 2.0 with no grade below C counting towards graduation.
• BSN students must earn a minimum of 30 nursing credit hours from Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences at Rockhurst University to meet residency requirements.

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