Bachelor of Science in Nursing RN to BSN

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN) program aims to prepare nurses with an associate's degree as competent generalist nursing professionals capable of providing safe, ethical, client-centered, and evidence-based care that reflects critical thinking and interprofessional collaboration. The program emphasizes the development of clinical reasoning skills, information management, leadership, and ethical decision-making to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, and populations in a variety of settings.

The Metropolitan Campus is authorized to offer this program through distance learning in English and Spanish. This program requires 105 hours of supervised in-person practice.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN) program is designed to produce graduates prepared to:

1. Provide care autonomously and in interdisciplinary collaboration, sensitive to ethical, legal, and cultural values, and focused on achieving the best outcomes for the client.

2. Coordinate care, applying leadership and management skills that lead to the highest quality care at the lowest cost.

3. Assume commitment as a member of the discipline in accordance with the standards of practice.

For the development of this professional, diverse and flexible study modalities are offered. This facilitates mobility from the associate's degree to the bachelor's degree level.

Program Goals

1.  To develop professionals serving individuals, families, communities, and populations who promote and provide safe, evidence-based, client-centered care that is sensitive to legal and ethical values in interprofessional collaboration.

2. To train professionals to assume leadership positions, manage complex clinical care, and improve the optimal health and well-being of citizens of diverse cultural backgrounds.

Program Objectives

1. Provide holistic nursing care, integrating evidence-based practice with clinical reasoning and professional practice standards.

2. Apply leadership and management skills to promote and maintain health, prevent disease, and restore the health of individuals, families, and communities in diverse settings.

3. Integrate ethical and legal values and principles, information technology, and technology into professional practice to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, and populations in a variety of settings.

Graduate Competency Profile

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN) program is designed to develop competencies that enable students to:

Knowledge

1. Demonstrate integrated theoretical and practical knowledge in providing safe and effective nursing care to individuals, families, and communities.

2. Understand the use of nursing interventions to prevent disease, promote, protect, maintain, and restore health.

3. Know critical thinking skills to make clinical judgments and utilize research findings for the continuous improvement of nursing practice.

Skills

1. Use assessment skills and therapeutic interventions when providing nursing care in a variety of settings to improve expected health care outcomes.

2. Apply communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and technology skills as a provider, care coordinator, and future member of the profession.

3. Act as leaders and managers of the care they seek to provide.

Attitudes

1. Apply humanistic care in nursing practice to promote the protection, optimization, and preservation of human dignity.

Admission Requirements

1.  Possess an Associate's Degree in Nursing with a minimum of 65 credits and 550 practice hours from an accredited institution with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.50 from your home country.

2. Provide evidence of a current permanent RN license in Puerto Rico, the U.S., or a jurisdiction that is a member of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).

3. Demonstrate at least one year of clinical experience in a hospital setting.

4. Complete 24 general education credits equivalent to those established for the associate degree in nursing by the institution:

   1. GEMA 1000 Quantitative Reasoning (3 credits)

   2. GEIC 1010 Information and Computer Technology (3 credits)

   3. GEEN 1101 or 1201 or 2311 English I (3 credits)

   4. GESP 1101 or 1021 Spanish I (3 credits)

   5. GESP 1102 or 1022 Spanish II (3 credits)

   6. GECF 1010 Introduction to the Christian Faith (3 credits)

   7. GEEN 1102 or 1202 or 2312 English II (3 credits)

   8. GEHS 2010 Historical Processes of Puerto Rico (3 credits)

Technical Requirements for the Distance Learning Program

1. Use and access to a computer with the software required by the institution. 2. Possess basic skills in internet navigation, operating systems, email, and work tools.

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING RN TO BSN

Associate Degree in Nursing Requirements	65 credits
General Requirements	24 credits
Major Requirements	28 credits
Elective	3 credits
Total	120 credits

General requirements - 24 credits

Elective requirements - 3 credits

Major requirements - 28 credits

NURS 3100	Dimensions of Professional Practice	3
NURS 3115	Introduction to the Nursing Research Process	3
NURS 3120	Health Assessment	3
NURS 3122	Basic Pathophysiology for Nursing	3
NURS 3142	Nursing Informatics and Technology in Clinical Practice	4
NURS 3190	Professional Life Cycle Interventions	3
NURS 4181	Community health nursing: a preventive approach and health promotion	4
NURS 4240	Administration and Supervision of Nursing Services	3