History
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing completion program was developed by the University of Washington Seattle's School of Nursing and was first offered at the University of Washington Bothell in 1992. The program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, as part of the University of Washington School of Nursing, and awards a University of Washington degree.
Program Objectives
Based on the projections of health care of the future, the competencies needed by practitioners in all health fields, and the competencies of college graduates, the Nursing Program pursues the following outcomes for its graduates:
- Communicate clearly and succinctly in speech and writing.
- Promote effective communication between clients from various sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds and representatives of the health care and social service systems.
- Demonstrate critical thinking, clinical decision making and psychomotor skills necessary for safe and competent professional nursing practice;
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity as shown by thought processes and behavior;
- Provide nursing care that preserves and enhances the client's dignity and perceived goodness of fit with the immediate and expected environment.
- Integrate methods of research and scholarship in making and prioritizing diagnosis and in planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of individuals, families, groups, and communities.
- Assess health and incorporate principles and methods of health promotion and health education in nursing care of individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Accept accountability of own expertise and for using that expertise to influence systems of care and health care policy.
- Demonstrate comfort with requirement for adaptation to changes within care settings.
- Demonstrate awareness of limitations in knowledge and actively seek learning opportunities to continue competent practice.
Program Structure
90 Transfer credits
45 NCLEX exam credits
30 Upper-division nursing credits
15 Required UW Bothell electives credits
180 Total credits for the BSN degree
