North Counties RN-BSN Program in Mount Vernon
Prospective Students
The RN-to-BSN Program is for nurses who have completed an Associates or Diploma nursing program, have their RN license already or who will take the NCLEX-RN exam and earn their license by the end of their first quarter at UW Bothell, and who desire to earn their BSN.
Prospective UW Bothell students who want to become nurses should be aware that UW Bothell offers neither an initial nursing degree program nor many of the required prerequisite courses to enter an initial nursing degree program. Please read the available information about where you can earn an initial nursing degree and prepare to transfer to UW Bothell.
Program Location and Class Day
Classes are held in Mount Vernon on Mondays. Classes used to be held at WorkSource Skagit, but will soon be moving to the new Nursing building at Skagit Valley College.
Program Start
A new nursing class is admitted to start in Autumn quarter (September). If you are interested in applying, application details are available in the admissions section. Prospective students who desire to start at other times may be admitted as Pre-BSN students, and are then eligible to take the required non-Nursing electives or complete admission requirements for full admission to the Nursing Program.
Program Completion
The Mount Vernon BSN program is designed to be completed in five quarters.
Students can complete the program in four quarters by one of two methods:
- if they enroll as a Pre-BSN student for the Summer quarter prior to their autum quarter start, in order to to take the non-Nursing elective offered in the Summer at Mount Vernon
- or by picking up an extra non-Nursing elective class during the school year on the Bothell campus.
The Mount Vernon five-quarter course schedule is available in the BSN Curriculum section.
How the Program Works
To earn your BSN at UW Bothell, you must complete 30 credits of core Nursing classes and 15 credits of required UW Bothell non-Nursing elective courses. If you are admitted with missing UW Bothell admission, general education, or nursing prerequisite course requirements, those will also need to be completed before graduation. You need to earn at least 180 credits for the BSN, and the breakdown of credits is:
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
For a list of the courses you will take each quarter, please see the BSN Curriculum section. Admission requirements are also available.
What Students Will Learn
Our goals for BSN education are to prepare our graduates to:
- Communicate clearly and succinctly in speech and writing;
- Promote effective communication between clients from various socio-cultural 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 practice;
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity as shown by thought processes and behaviors;
- Provide nursing care that preserves and enhances the client's dignity and perceived goodness of fit with the immediate and expected environments;
- Integrate methods of research and scholarship in making and prioritizing diagnoses, and in planning, implementing and evaluating care of individuals, 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 requirements for adaptation to changes in care settings;
- Demonstrate awareness of limitations in knowledge and actively seek learning opportunities to continue competent practice.
Program Cost
Current UW Bothell tuition rates are posted in the tuition rates section. Financial aid and scholarships for nurses are available; be sure to consult the Nursing Program's list of funding opportunities for further details.
For More Information
More information about the Nursing Program at UW Bothell may be found at http://www.uwb.edu/nursing. The North Counties Program Advisor is Sandra Maddox; please contact her at sbmaddox@uw.edu or 425-352-3531.
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 in our North Counties location in Mount Vernon in Autumn 2007. Classes are offered on Mondays in Mount Vernon.
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.