Nursing, BSN

Mission

Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Rockhurst University Bachelor of Science in Nursing program provides quality education 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 with a liberal arts education for the role of the professional nurse, which encompasses thoughtful leadership, compassionate 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 Rockhurst University Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
• 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 Rockhurst University Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences to meet residency requirement.

Pre-requisites for Upper Division Nursing Coursework

The first 60 credit hours of coursework, including all program pre-requisite courses, may be completed at accredited institution(s) of your choice. Students then complete 60 hours of nursing courses to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Rockhurst University Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences. For details of pre-nursing requirements, see Pre-Nursing Requirements .

Students who have earned an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science or bachelor’s degree from an accredited* institution are eligible for a waiver of the open elective requirements.

NOTE: Science courses must be taken no more than five years prior to enrollment into the College.

*Institutions must be accredited by a nationally recognized higher education accrediting association. Rockhurst University reserves the right to reject coursework from institutions not accredited through North Central Association of Colleges and Schools or other accrediting associations as determined by the Registrar’s Office. Such coursework is not accepted for transfer or satisfaction of degree requirements at Rockhurst University.