If you’re ready to begin a career as a nurse and have already earned a bachelor’s degree in another field, Rockhurst University offers a Hybrid Accelerated BSN.
- A full-time hybrid program that prepares you to become a skilled nurse in just 16 months
- Delivery by the highly respected Saint Luke's College of Nursing and Health Sciences
- 100% online coursework
- One 10-day on-campus residency with hands-on instruction at our state-of-the-art simulation lab
- 1:1 NCLEX coaching provided after graduation to prepare you for the NCLEX-RN exam
Rockhurst Nursing 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 participate in opportunities to engender change.
RU Nursing 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.
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