CMU can help you get there quickly and efficiently. Get your BSN degree from a University where students, faculty, staff, and alumni learn to pursue excellence, live with compassion and be leaders.
The nursing degree requires semester credit hours, up to 90 hours can be transferred to this program. Review the transfer guides and articulation agreements from the Community College or University you attended to see how your credits will transfer to CMU.
Your advisor will help determine if you need to take any courses at CMU beyond the 30 credit hours of the nursing major. Application Submission Deadline: CMU admits students into this program twice a year in the spring and fall semesters.
Students may apply to the program at any time during the last semester of the Associate degree or diploma program or after completing the program. For a student who receives tuition assistance or reimbursement from their employer, deferred billing is a great option.
The Deferred Billing Program allows the student additional time to turn-in payment. Typically, it's about 30 days after the course ends. The student who wishes to defer billing is required to turn in the application, employer's reimbursement policy, and verification of employment.
Once approved and all documents have been received, the student will receive an approval form that lists the courses and all tuition and fees. This form lists the due date per course so that they are aware of when each course is due and how much is due on that date. Check with your academic institution to verify the course number that corresponds with the TCCNS number.
Courses provided from other institutions with equivalent course content are acceptable for transfer credit if a "C" or better was earned. Maximum credits allowed for CLEP or correspondence courses are 15 each. Interprofessional Communication and Leadership in Healthcare is designed to help students prepare for success in the online environment at Western Governors University and beyond.
Student success starts with the social support and self-reflective awareness that will prepare them to handle the challenges of all academic programs. In this course, students will participate in group activities and complete several individual assignments.
The group activities are aimed at finding support and gaining insight from other students. The assignments are intended to give the student an opportunity to reflect on where they are and where they would like to be. The activities in each group meeting are designed to give students several tools they can use to achieve success. This course is designed as a four-part intensive learning experience.
Students will attend six group meetings during the term. At each meeting, students will engage in activities that will help them understand their own educational journey and find support and inspiration in the journey of others.
There are no prerequisites for this course. Information Technology in Nursing Practice provides a basic overview of information technology as it relates to the baccalaureate-prepared nurse. It is a foundational overview of nursing informatics with an emphasis on developing basic competency. This course teaches students that nursing informatics synthesizes nursing science, information science, and computer science through health applications to support decision-making in a dynamic healthcare environment.
All prior courses in the sequence for this program serve as prerequisites for this course. Organizational Systems and Healthcare Transformation covers foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward organizational leadership within healthcare systems that can help students be successful.
This course focuses on the concepts of patient safety, improvement science, fiscal responsiveness, quality of care, value-based care, and patient-centered care. Additional topics of quality science and innovation, systems redesign, and interprofessional roles assist the student in building necessary skills for healthcare transformation.
The course presents current and innovative assessment techniques of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of patients. Use of assessment data and shared decision-making are discussed throughout the course. This course also outlines the concepts of a head-to-toe assessment, providing students with an understanding of how to critically think about the different aspects of the assessment and analyze patient cues to determine the implications of findings.
Students will also analyze lifestyle and cultural implications of health. Healthcare Policy and Economics is a foundational course that introduces the concepts of value-based care and the role of the nurse. This course includes concepts related to financial responsiveness, shared decision-making, preference-sensitive care, leveraging data. In this course, students learn about cost and fee-for-service in terms of value to the client and patient rather than value to the healthcare system.
Global and Population Health prepares students for the role of the nurse in preserving and promoting health among diverse populations. Additionally, basic principles of epidemiology, social determinants of health SDOH , and resource allocation through value-based care are outlined. The course introduces planning, organization, and delivery of services for diverse populations in community settings, including illness prevention, disaster preparedness, and environmental health.
Emerging Professional Practice presents a variety of professional nursing specialty areas. Students explore various practice specialties, including palliative care, genetics and genomics, and others. The course provides pathways to specialized nursing practice. The BSNU capstone is a synthesis of previously acquired knowledge, skills, and attitudes and requires students to demonstrate competency in the program outcomes.
Emphasis is placed on change facilitation in a healthcare setting, based in evidence and incorporating value-based care. This course provides students with an opportunity to engage in a project that is actionable, relevant, highly collaborative, and based on innovative thinking. Intrapersonal Leadership and Professional Growth fosters the development of professional identity. Building on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes gained through nursing practice, students in this course will explore the relationship of theories, professional competencies, standards of leadership, education, and professionalism.
The course content will cover development of a nurse as a leader who is proficient in asserting control, influence, and power in professional and personal contexts.
Scholarship in Nursing Practice teaches students how to design and conduct research to answer important questions about improving nursing practice and patient care delivery outcomes. This course introduces the basics of evidence-based practice, which students are expected to implement throughout their clinical experiences.
Students of this course will graduate with more competence and confidence to become leaders in the healing environment. Welcome to Composition I: Writing with a Strategy! In this course, you will focus on three main topics: writing strategies, writing style, format and grammar, and editing and revising text. This course consists of an introduction and five sections aligned to the three main topics.
The sections address understanding purpose and audience, writing strategies and techniques, format, style, structure, and grammar, editing and revision strategies, and constructive feedback. Each section includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to check your learning, practice, and show how well you understand course content.
Because the course is self-paced, you may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as you need to gain proficiency in the five competencies that will be covered in the final assessment. If you have no prior knowledge or experience, you can expect to spend hours on the course content.
This is Anatomy and Physiology I, a six-section, 4 CEU course that enables students to develop an understanding of the relationships between the structures and function of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous and endocrine systems in the human body. This course will involve laboratory activities, simulated dissections, textbook material, models, and diagrams. Because the course is self-paced, you may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as you need to, with the goal of demonstrating proficiency in the four competencies covered in the final assessment.
If you have no prior knowledge of this material, you can expect to spend 40—60 hours on the course content. The Global Arts and Humanities course contains three modules with corresponding lessons. This course is an invitation to see the world through the humanities, examine the humanities during the Information Age, and explore the global origins of music—essentially questioning what makes us human, and how people are connected across culture and time.
Each module includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to practice and check learning. With no prior knowledge or experience, a learner can expect to spend hours on the course content. Pathophysiology is an overview of the pathology and treatment of diseases in the human body, tissues, glands and membranes, the integumentary system, the sensory system, skeletal and muscular systems, the digestive system, blood, vessels and circulation, lymphatic system, immunity and disease, heart and respiratory system, nervous, urinary and endocrine systems, and male and female reproductive systems.
Prerequisites include all prior courses in this programmatic sequence. Welcome to Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others! It may seem like common knowledge that communication skills are important, and that communicating with others is inescapable in our everyday lives.
Maryville is committed to a learning environment in which online courses are fully supported and easily accessible. Additionally, the courses are continually updated, based on healthcare employer feedback and relevant industry trends, to ensure you can develop the expertise to thrive in nursing today. Nursing courses teach professional nursing skills with an in-depth approach to healthcare leadership, family assessment, nursing informatics, and end-of-life nursing.
The RN to BSN program requires eligible students to complete 89 credit hours: 64 credits in general education and 25 credits in nursing-specific courses. Leadership Contemporary Healthcare : Earning your BSN degree is a critical first step to assuming a leadership role in nursing.
In this course, students can learn the responsibilities of a professional nurse while also gaining an understanding of historical and contemporary nursing issues.
The course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, principles of management, and nursing practice models. Family Assessment : Only recently has the family been widely recognized as a critical element in patient care, yet families have been a part of nursing care for many years. This course focuses on the importance of broadening the practice of healthcare professionals to serve the family as a unit, as well as each individual family member. During this course, students should gain a sound theoretical foundation for family nursing assessment and intervention.
Nursing Informatics : Basic computing and word-processing skills are required for this course. Students may learn how to integrate nursing practice, education, and research with information science and computer technology to identify, gather, process, and manage information.
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