RN-BSN PROGRAM (BSN)
CREDIT HOURS: 120
Tuition: $9,000 Registration Fee: $150 Total Cost of Program: $11,750.00
OTHER FEES:
Estimated Cost of: Books/Materials, Kit & other: $2,600.00
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:
Upon completion of their program, the student should be able to:
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
J & J Healthcare Institute RN to BSN online program is completed completely online. J & J Healthcare Institute RN to BSN online program is designed for registered nurses who have earned an Associate Degree in Nursing. All courses are available online, and the required community clinical project will be completed in your local area. J & J Healthcare Institute RN to BSN online program offers direction from qualified faculties that have first-hand knowledge of experience specific to this curriculum or have participated in online educational experiences. J & J Healthcare Institute RN to BSN online program exposes students to a broad range of nursing subjects from community health, critical care, research, and assessment.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
First Semester NBSN4061 – Ethics
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: None
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for registered nurses who are pursuing a Baccalaureate of Nursing Science (BSN). Emphasis is placed on foundational knowledge, including history, theory, ethics and legal practice, professional roles, and the social, cultural, political, and economic factors influencing everyday life.
NBSN4063 – RN-Concepts of Community
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course, developed for the registered nurse, establishes the foundation for understanding community health and the relationships among individuals,
families, and communities across the lifespan. Selected community and public health models and theories are used to identify health needs of culturally diverse client systems. Health policy, politics, social justice, and research are emphasized as the context for community health advocacy and the roles of the professional.
NBSN4060 – RN Informatics for Professional Nurses
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours*
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the nurse’s role in utilizing healthcare informatics to improve patient outcomes. It addresses the use of information science and
technology to support patient care and provide leadership within healthcare systems. It focuses primarily on using information systems to evaluate care plans, outcomes of care, and healthcare systems to inform patient safety and quality improvement. Ethical, legal, and financial issues surrounding information systems are also discussed.
NBSN4062 – RN-Scientific Basis for Nursing Practice CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education & Statistics COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces the student to the research process and establishes a foundation for understanding the scientific basis for practice and the role theory plays in the development of nursing knowledge. Students analyze research reports, access credible sources in response to identified clinical questions, and discuss integrating evidence into practice using evidence-based practice (EBP) models.
Second Semester
NBSN4065 -Leadership for RNs
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education & NBSN4063 – RN-Concepts of Community
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the knowledge and skills essential to effective nursing leadership and introduces the managing role of the leader within varied nursing practice settings. Managerial concepts and leadership skills are needed to promote high-quality nursing care delivery outcomes. Emphasis is placed on strategies that facilitate quality improvement and the professional practice of self and others as members of the health care organization.
NBSN4066C – RN-Community as Partner
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours (2 hrs seminar, 12 hrs practicum)
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education & NBSN4063 – RN-Concepts of Community
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to facilitate the transition of the RN student to the role of professional nurse in the community. Students have opportunities to apply community/public health competencies in the design and delivery of community-focused interventions. Students use the core public health functions to promote health and reduce risk across the life span.
NBSN4067 – RN-Gerontology for Nurses
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course emphasizes essential concepts necessary to provide quality care for older adults. This course focuses on maintaining wellness and the nurse’s role in the implementation of best practices in the care of older adults.
NBSN 3015- Pathopharmacology
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
Prerequisite: None
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A major responsibility of nurses is to help ensure the safe administration of medication by having an in-depth understanding of drug categories and how each type interacts with other drugs in the body. In this course, students explore foundational pharmacologic principles and topics, including key drug actions and interactions, effects of various categories of drugs, and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Through case studies and other functional applications, students learn about the pathophysiology related to major health problems across the lifespan and the pharmacologic management of those problems.
NBSN439 – RN-Evidence-Based Practice
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The emphasis of this course is on the elements of evidence-based practice. focus is placed on the cyclical process of identifying clinical questions, searching and appraising the evidence for potential solutions/innovations, planning and implementing practice changes, evaluating the outcomes, and identifying additional gaps in nursing knowledge. Integrating the existing evidence with clinical judgment, patient preferences, interprofessional perspectives, and other resources form the basis for the clinical decision-making process inherent in improving patient, population, and organizational outcomes. Processes for leading managing practice changes are explored.
Third Semester
ENGL14 – Advanced English Composition
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to engage students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Through the close reading of selected texts, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and structure. This course will apply the knowledge of the effectiveness in writing to the healthcare field.
NBSN305 – RN-Health Assessment
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Assessment of clients across the lifespan through history taking and physical examination. This includes gathering data about general health, illness, symptoms, behaviors, pain, and lifespan. Identify goals for client education related to specific risk factors and highlight lifespan, cultural, and environmental considerations. Documentation of data using a functional patterns framework to communicate information between and among health professionals involved in the care of clients. Application of nursing theory in the assessment process.
STA 2023 – Statistical Methods
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MAT 1033C or satisfactory score on an approved assessment.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: An introductory statistics course covering the collection, description, and interpretation of data. Topics include sampling, summarizing data graphically and numerically, probability distributions, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression.
HUM0430 – Humanities
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines an extensive array of humanities and social science issues, specifically to determine how different models, methods and strategies may improve clinical practice. It focuses on non-nursing systems, with reference to their interconnectedness and interdependencies. Students evaluate the implications and consequences of health care decisions. Topics include critical and creative thinking, research and data collection, decision-making, dialogue, pattern/trend analysis, and systems thinking. The primary model used is discovery learning.
ECON312 – Principles of Economics
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides an introduction to the financial structures that support nursing practice. The focus is on economic principles, financial management methods, and business strategies that form the foundation for balancing productivity with quality of care and designing effective and realistic care delivery systems that optimize performance, minimize costs, and enhance outcomes. Students will examine methods to evaluate costs and cost effectiveness of care using knowledge regarding health equity and diversity. This course provides graduates with the tools to plan, monitor, and evaluate the acquisition, use, and outcomes of fiscal resources for practice and program initiatives.
NBSN4068 Professional Nursing
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will assist students in preparation for the NCLEX-RN examination through a strategic and systematic individualized plan of study that utilizes the LIRN program and other relevant resources. This course serves as the foundation to the profession of nursing and to the nursing framework utilized at J & J Healthcare Institute. A historical perspective is used to provide background for subsequent study of contemporary nursing practice and research. The health care system, education, research, ethical and legal issues, and cultural influences on nursing and health care are introduced. Evidence-based practice, which is implemented throughout the nursing program, is presented and selected nursing theories are introduced. The nurse-patient relationship, nursing process, communication process, and critical thinking processes are presented as essential components of patient care.
Nursing roles are described and functions of professional organizations are differentiated.
NBSN4069 Transcultural Nursing
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This online course explains contemporary nursing practice. Beliefs about man, society, health, nursing, and cultures are explored so that students can examine the relationship among these factors. Issues in the delivery of health care and the roles of the nurse and patient within the health care system are investigated.
NBSN4070 Knowledge Development in Nursing
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education COURSE DESCRIPTION: Prepares nursing students to utilize the nursing process in implementing nursing skills and knowledge when caring for patients across the life span and representing a wide variety of health care concerns. Students will develop skills through discussion, observation, and practice.
PSY4103 Communicating in Nursing
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course assists students to focus on basic communication skills essential for working with health-care professionals and clients of various ages. Content includes interpersonal communications and group dynamics. Students will practice communication skills with individuals and within groups.
CCN7034 Priorities in Critical Care Nursing
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Prepares students to utilize the nursing process in implementing clinical nursing skills and technologies when caring for patients with acute and chronic illnesses. Builds upon the basic knowledge and skills practiced in NBSN4070. Students are expected to incorporate evidence-based practice to determine appropriate nursing interventions and apply simulated laboratory skills and rationale into meaningful clinical encounters in concurrent clinical course settings.
NBSN4068 – RN Capstone
CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) undergraduate semester credit hours
PRE/CO-REQUISITES: NBSN4061 – RN-Transition to Baccalaureate Education, NBSN4062
– RN-Scientific Basis for Nursing Practice, NBSN4063 – RN-Concepts of Community, & NBSN4066C – RN-Community as Partner
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is the capstone experience for the RN/BSN student to synthesize coursework and current evidence into professional practice. Students’ unique experiences provide a context in which to demonstrate the role of the professional nurse in the improvement of health care outcomes.
