Bachelor of Science in Nursing: Program Curriculum

 

The RN-BSN is a professional-level nurse who focuses on some of the more advanced aspects of patient care, such as creating and overseeing the implementation of patient care plans, through the focal lens of applied nursing science. The major differences between the LPN and RN-BSN are career advancement opportunities, salary, and depth of scope of practice. The Erudite Nursing Institute® meets and exceeds all national standards of RN curricula:

 

  • Integrate and synthesize theories and concepts from liberal education in nursing practice to build an understanding of the human experience
  • Implement skills of inquiry and analysis to address practice issues
  • Application of social and cultural factors to the care and treatment of culturally, economically, and educationally varying populations
  • Ethical, logical, and mathematical reasoning and actions to provide leadership in patient advocacy
  • Integrate the knowledge and methods of a variety of disciplines to inform decision making
  • Awareness of complex organizational systems, as well as their structure, vision, mission, philosophy, professional and values.
  • Understanding of microsystems and their relationship to macro and more complex systems, quality patient care and safety
  • Use of steno, tele, and oral communication technologies to assist in effective communication in a variety of healthcare settings with patients and clients/personnel of varying backgrounds
  • Uphold ethical and secure standards concerning data, regulatory requirements, confidentiality, and clients’/patients’ right to privacy
  • Development and demonstration of professional and skillful tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of the world and its effect on the healthcare system.
  • Value health literacy and the ideal of lifelong learning to support excellence in both professional and practical nursing practice
  • Implementation of theoretical foundations and principles of individual and population focused education and counseling pertaining to genetics and genomics
  • Organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement, and safety
  • Develop, maintain, and initiate basic quality and safety investigations, working with others on the interprofessional healthcare team to create a safe, caring environment for the provisioning of care
  • Learn to design and dissect care delivery models that are based in contemporary nursing science that are practical and logical within respective current cultural, economic, organizational, and political perspectives
  • How to apply evidence-based knowledge from the nursing profession and other clinical sciences to data from the outcomes of care processes, to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care; through employment and application of principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy, and cost-effectiveness
  • Psychosocial development and cognitive analysis and development
  • Macro and micro biological principles and theory
  • Environmental and bio hazards; internal, external, psychological, physical disasters and crises