护理是我们不断变化的医疗体系的最前沿。该学位课程将为您提供专业的护士资格，具备理论基础和临床能力，可以在各种医疗保健环境中蓬勃发展。您将准备好进行批判性思考，使用证据做出决定，在专业间医疗保健环境中进行协作和创新。通过以证据为基础的实践，临床推理，创新，专业间的交流和信息技术为中心的课程，BSN学位课程使学生为提供高质量的专业护理做好准备。可以通过几种独特的途径获得护理学学士学位。
Whether your goals involve advancing into leadership roles or expanding your knowledge base, our program is the key to unlocking career opportunities and growth. Develop essential leadership and management skills, empowering you to guide teams, navigate critical decisions and instigate positive change. Elevate your nursing career with us.<br>Through a curriculum focused on evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, innovation, interprofessional communication and information technology, the BSN program in nursing readies students to deliver top-notch professional nursing care. Achieving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing is possible through various distinctive pathways.<br><br>Traditional prelicensure BSN nursing program<br>The traditional prelicensure clinical nursing program is a full-time, upper-division nursing program for students who wish to become a registered nurse by completing a BSN. The program has three start dates per year: spring, summer and fall. It may be completed in a 16-month year-round schedule or a 24-month academic year schedule. Graduates are eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination to obtain licensure as a registered nurse.<br><br>Students advance into the program in one of two ways: direct admission or the competitive advancement process. Direct admission is offered to incoming first-time freshmen who meet specific admission criteria. Students admitted directly must meet continuing eligibility criteria while attending ASU to advance into the upper-division nursing program. Directly admitted nursing students who do not meet continuing eligibility criteria, transfer students or ASU students who are changing majors may apply for advancement to the upper-division nursing program by competing for any remaining spaces.<br><br>Accelerated BSN clinical nursing program<br>The accelerated BSN clinical nursing program is a full-time, 12-month upper-division clinical nursing program for students who wish to become a registered nurse by completing a BSN. Selection is competitive. Students pursuing advancement to the accelerated BSN clinical nursing program complete prerequisite coursework and apply for advancement to the program. Graduates are eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination to gain licensure as a registered nurse.<br><br>Online RN to BSN program<br>The online RN to BSN program is available to students who have earned an associate degree in nursing and have a current RN license in good standing with the state board of nursing. RN to BSN program courses are offered online in 7.5-week sessions and can be completed in 14 to 24 months. There are five starts per year: two in the fall, two in the spring and one in the summer. Assignments may include readings, discussions, papers, presentations and clinical practice experiences completed in a hospital or community setting in the location where the student resides.<br><br>Transfer pathway agreements are in place with all community college nursing programs in Arizona, which provide additional benefits to students. The RN to BSN program is not available to students residing in Tennessee, Rhode Island or Washington.